Bittersweet endings

After 6 years of All Star Cheerleading, Cheerleader Girl and I found out today that her all star gym will no longer offer a senior team. Due to lower sign ups this past year, partly because of the current state of our economy I am sure, the owner/director felt it was in the best interest to combine the junior and senior teams. What this means to us is there is no team for which CG meets the age requirements. As a result, there will be no more all star cheering for her. In the long run, this will be a good thing for our family, since cheerleading is an expensive and extremely time consuming sport. However, it was quite a shock to get the news. It would have been CG’s last year of all star cheerleading, and to be informed that LAST year was the end of the road, is disappointing. Had we known that her last competition would have been the end, we would have celebrated it as, the end. As it turned out it was more like “Good Job girls, see you next year.” Now, there will be nothing. Sure there are other gyms in the area, but when you have been with the same program for 6 years, it just wouldn’t be the same. The positive spin on it, is that she will be able to start her senior year with one less burden. She will still cheer for her high school for both competition and for sideline, but will have much more time on her hands, and we will have much more money in our pockets. I will miss those cheer weekends, where it was just she and I together at competitions, but I am glad we had the times together.

As time passes on, I realize this is only the first of many “endings” to come.

Summer's starting......

School is coming to a close next week for Bud and Cheerleader Girl and I am actually really excited. I love the fact that my children are old enough to clean the house and do laundry and mow grass and what ever other fun things chores I can come up with for them to do through out the day.

They will both be working this summer which is a new for us. Last year CG worked babysitting, but Bud was lazy busy doing nothing but hanging out. This year, not so much. CG’s working at an ice cream shop, which she loves, but the hours are never consistent, and Bud is chillin’ working at the pool. It will be hard to keep up with them, but somehow we will manage.

The one disappointment I do have about them being partially gainfully employed is that their schedules will probably never be the same so it will be impossible really difficult to do things as a family. Especially Bud, who will most likely work every weekend. We have always enjoyed being able to go boating on the weekends, or head off to the beach for a weekend getaway. This year that probably won’t be possible. And most definitely a family vacation will be out of the question. Bud is already taking a week to go to wrestling camp, and CG a week to go to a leadership conference (both with out the parents of course) not to mention that cheer stuff starts 24/7 for CG the second week of August. We will manage, I suppose with a few days here or there, or a spontaneous "OMG you don’t have to work today, let’s go do something." I’m actually thinking of starting a list of “Things To Do This Summer” and when the time arises, just go do them. This list looks something like this:

1. KENNY CHESNEY and 3 days at the beach with CG and Snow White.
2. Throwdown at BHE’s to celebrate whatever.
3. Turn 40 (guess that one’s going to happen whether anyone is working or not)
4. BlogFest at CBW’s
   
   Any other suggestions?

Prom 2009

"I'm not sure where the time goes, but it sure goes fast......"

Cheerleader Girl's Junior Prom was this past weekend, and she looked so amazing. It was a really bittersweet thing to see her so dressed up and so grown up.

This is her and Soccer Boy. They looked so amazing.

But this better describes their personalities. Silly and ridiculous :)
They had just a few people in their group...

They grow up so fast..... if I could just freeze this moment in time .......

Friday Fragments

It's Friday! Thank Goodness. Even though this was a short week, I am fairly confident I could not manage another day at work. (Well I could if I have to, but it's a good thing I don't)

It's prom weekend for Cheerleader Girl. I'm very excited for her, as she seems to be extremely excited as well. Tomorrow starts early for hair and makeup appointments, all just for pictures. Why do they do that again? Her dress is gorgeous! I can't wait to see her all "dolled" up :)

WeThe Salesman are finishing the fence this weekend(thank you Thompson's water seal). He power washed it, and the back and front porches last weekend. Hope the rain holds out. It's an icky job.

I realized this week that all of the shows we typically record on our DVR have all ended for the season. I realized this because my DVR is only 4% full. That just sucked. And the only show with a half way good ending was 24. I will be really pissed off if Jack Bauer dies! We have started watching Harper's Island (thank goodness for OnDemand). It's really, really good.

I am super excited about the Kenny Chesney concert and 3 days at the beach with CG and Snow White (boo BHE! for not coming). June 24 can not get here fast enough.

I have seen a remarkable difference in the level of responsibilty shown by Bud since he got a job. Whooda thunk it? Should have made him start working years ago, but I think there is something about child labor laws? Dang it!

I realized at Girls weekend, that the mosquitos LOVE Sex on the Beach. (It's a drink just in case you were wondering why I was having sex on the beach at "girls" weekend).


Have a great weekend all!!!

Are you high maintenance?

I was recently told I was a "High Maintenance Woman," by the Salesman (who said it with the utmost adoration of course). It doesn't bother me, because honestly I am a particularly picky controlling woman who just wants it her way knows what she wants. Does that really make me High Maintenance? I don't think so.

High Maintenace could be defined by some as needy, fussy, whiny (I do get kinda whiny sometimes), hard to please, not easily impressed (it doesn't take much for me to be impressed, really it doesn't) attention grabbing, difficult to deal with, troublesome, demanding, inconsiderate, and stuck on themselves. Only a couple of those actually apply to me ;)

After listening to the women in our office today complain about the infestion of velvet mites(which hang out on the bricks outside) in our 3rd floor office , which actually amounts to one on someone's desk, I realized I am not high maintenance AT ALL. They actually want our company to pay high dollar for an exterminator to come INSIDE to spray for OUTSIDE bugs on the THIRD floor, and they want to close the office when they do, because the insecticides will cause breathing problems. ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Do they watch the news?? 5+ million people out of work, and they want what?? These women around here are EXTREMELY high maintenance. They are the whinniest, pickiest, fussiest, uptight, bunch of complaining women ON THIS PLANET! Grrrrrr!!!

So hubby comes home tomorrow! YEA! It's about time, because I need him to do somethings for me, like spray for bugs.......

I wish....

I wish I had something amazingly funny to tell you, but I don't.

I wish my husband was home from being with his father who just had surgery to remove a football size cancerous tumor from his leg.

I wish my father-in-law never had a football size cancerous tumor, or any tumor for that matter.

I wish I would have eaten my children when they were little (hahahaah just kidding)

I wish I lived somewhere where the temperature is always 75 degrees and the sun always shines and there was no humidity.

I wish I could talk to the bird on my windowsill and he would understand me (and the girl that sits outside my office didn't think I was crazy or weird for talking birdspeak).

I wish it were Saturday and I was at BHE's house with something cold and fruity in my hand.

I wish my friend would ditch cleaning her house tomorrow and come see Jason Aldean with me.

I wish I had a job that didn't actually require me to work. Maybe I should have applied for the Best Job in the World.

I wish I weighed now, what I weighed when I got married, but didn't have to diet or excise to weigh that.

Do any of you have any wishes?

MIA

So Mom x 2 has been MIA for the last few... uh weeks?? Wow where has the time gone? I'm sorry to all my bloggy friends. I hope you haven't abandoned me all together ;)

My computer crashed, no thanks to the trojan virus I had! I was not a happy camper and they were unable to save it soooooo hubby bought me a new one :) Isn't he the best.

There have been tons of other things going on, although at the moment I can't name a single one.

I'm hopefully back now and will do my very best to get back into the swing of things.