Catchin' Up

Well I will try to get everyone caught up on what we've been up to all summer. I don't know if I'll get any pics posted but here is a summary:

Sarah played softball from the beginning of June until the week after the 4th of July when they had tournaments. She pretty much has just hung out all summer but she has been babysitting for a teacher that went back to work last week Tuesday. She'll babysit for them everyday until she starts back to school on the 19th - which is next Tuesday. She is ready for school to start. She will be a freshman.

Hannah had summer school (Extended School Year is what her school calls it). She went up to school for 3 weeks from July 7th trhough July 25th. She worked in the Activities Room at a Nursing Home for those three weeks and really enjoyed it. She will be a Junior and when you go to summer school at the school for the blind at that age then they actually put you into a vocational program and you learn job skills/how to get along with your boss and co-workers, etc. So, she actually got to earn a paycheck this summer. She went to Heather's Camp from July 31st until August 3rd. Heather's Camp is a camp for visually impaired children. This is her 3rd year going and she absolutely loves it. She got to "drive" a speedboat and go tubing. She got to fish and do crafts and all the fun camp stuff. She will start back to school on Monday so we take her to Kansas City to enroll on Sunday. She is ready to go back to school too.

We went for her yearly vision exam yesterday and she will get to get contacts. This is a new Dr. and he said that she should have been in contacts a long time ago. He has worked on a study that shows contacts give people with certain visual impairments more field of vision (meaning they can see a greater area) and it also lets her read 3 lines smaller on the vision chart than what she can see with her glasses. So, to contacts she goes. We'll go back on Sept. 12th at 8:15 am to get her trial pair and then she'll wear them all day and we'll go back at 2:30 pm on the same day and she and the Dr. will decide if that's what she wants to do. If so, then they will have to send her contacts back to be tinted or order her her permanent pair that will be tinted and then she'll go back to get her permanent pair. They tint them so that it cuts out the glare - just like her glasses - and so that if she drops one she can find it. She is VERY excited to say the least.

Mark and I have just been still both working our full time jobs and our 2 cleaning jobs. I have just added the embroidery to my schedule as I would like to do this and maybe eventually make it a full time job (I can dream can't I? - LOL!!)

We have only gotten to camp 3 times this summer - which really stinks because we usually camp 2-3 weeks out of each month. However, Mark's work schedule and the weather - we have had a lot of rain/thunderstorms this summer - have not permitted it.

We are going to go to the Kansas State Fair the weekend of September 12th also - so, we will get to camp that weekend and we are going to see Joe Nichols and Jason Michael Carroll in concert that Saturday. I can't believe that the summer is pretty much gone!!

Embroidery Blog

I have started machine embroidering. Thanks to my SIL, Rose, for doing such great work - it hooked me. I have created a blog just for my embroidery. It is http://kountrytymestitchin.blogspot.com. Take a look when you have time.