Back On It!!

It's Monday and I'm writing about Monday--GO ME!!
I had an 8am meeting at Pathways with Chantal and Jane to discuss Charlotte's school path.  She hasn't been to school in 2 weeks and not a soul from BHS has even called to see what the problem is! Same old same old over there, and my hopes for her to have a good experience in the TIPS program have not panned out. We are still working on it, but it looks like Charlotte will be moving over into adult transition after Thanksgiving.Danny had a long sewing lesson with Karol in which he learned to pin a pattern,cut it out, baste and sew the seam. He is doing wonderfully. Danny and I also enjoyed playing chopsticks together on the piano..what fun! Walked the dog and gave hom his first bath at our house...he is so good, he just stood in Danny's tub and shook.
Tae Kwan do kicked Danny's dupa tonight, fast and fitness oriented. He was sweating buckets.

Sunday 11/13/11

We went to Mass at 8:30am. Danny subbed as a server. Newspaper reading and coffee drinking follow that...but most of my day I felt like was spent driving in and out of town. To and from kids friends houses, Meijer and Target to try to find a blind for the garage window, all that jazz,
Molly ended up at Anne's for dinner and Danny got home from Scott's ate and got ready for bed. We watched our new favourite show Property Brothers.

11/12/11 Aahh, Saturday!

A lazy, raking,football watching, Saturday. Charlotte and Jerry took off at 8:30 to start the long awaited trip to Delaware and NJ. Jerry sent lots of pictures throughout the day and I felt like I was there.

hoodie-the highlight of any campus visit!

campus cuties

north campus part of the tour

 Shawne and I went to JCPenneys and did a bit of shopping with her 30%coupon! Whoot! Danny and I went to Blockbuster and got a couple of movies-watched one called A Far Off Place about a couple of kids that make there way across the Kalahari desert. It was quite violent, much more than I imagined, but we enjoying sitting in the chair together in front of the fireplace...Molly? where do you think she was? Downstairs watching football of course!

Friday 11/11/11 Greenhills invites us to T. Wall Bball Day

What a blast! We head down to Greenhills again, this time with our friend Gary in tow, to attend T. Wall BBall. This is a special day sponsored by a former teacher Tom Wall. It is the joining of a Greenhills student with a special visitor from a local school to play basketball and have fun together. There is a carnival, disco, face painting a cake walk and crafts. Our student team consists of Anna and Anya, juniors who love cross country and the arts respectively. We won our bball game, boy Gary can sure rebound and the girls couldn't miss today! We played carnival games, danced in the disco, made masks, and Danny,Charlotte and Gary went to the petting zoo. All the students and staff were fabulous..maybe the talk Molly gave helped with this. This is a wonderful school and we love being a part of the family. The kids each got a trophy and Tom Wall insisted on meeting Molly before we left,it was cute!

team we played against, we WON

our team!

charlotte and Anna

pretty crafty ,eh?!

nice!

maori

Molly and Anya

Boo!

go team!!

I went to the movies with Shawne. We saw Anonoymous, the Shakespeare movie. It was good, costumes were great.  We also went to Renees Pampered Chef party, and as always, that was fun.

Thursday 11/10/11

Catch up---
rescheduled piano lesson and Danny gets Christmas Tunes!
banking and food shopping
Laundry with a capitol L!!
plans for Charlotte's trip
Work at BDL, my big 4 hours this month!
but catching up---does it ever really happen??!
What do you think?!

Wednesday- I guess we're really Grandparents...

We had a nice visit with Cammy and got to meet baby Cassandra tonight. Jerry went and picked them up, and they took the van when they left. We thought we could loan the van to them since neither she or Jake had a vehicle. I made a tasty meal and got the place tidied and organized.(?)! Here are some pictures..

Tuesday in Cinci--SO fun day

We had a great sleep! Those beds are so great, I called Jer and asked him if we could just move in here! Treadmill for me, bed for Mol...and lots of great coffee start the day. Molly enjoys the fabulous breakfast and we head over to P&G. The schedule is that we get together with athletes from Hamilton County Ohio and P&G employees and we all play games together. We rotate through stations of Wii bowling, BBall, Boccee and golf putting. Mol teams up with her pal Adam and theyhave a ball. I play, cheer and take pictures. Robin from SOI is kind of the coach of the day, and it is a great fit because she coached women's basketball at Florida. The board meeting takes a lunch break and the members come down and join in with the athletes. Molly beats Bart in bocce and shoots bballs with Sam Perkins. Fun! We get goody bags and hardy goodbyes and we head back to the hotel. Adam told Molly she had to eat Graeters icecream, in fact she couldn't leave Cinci without eating it. So we walk down town and she gets a big cup...and she loved it. We are picked up in our car and dropped in Brighton at about 8pm. Oh gosh I had another wonderful time and hope we can continue to work with P&G, I am feeling blessed.

Adam amd Molly

she beats Adam

Harvard Prof. and Board member

Bart challenges Molly, she won!

me and some of the wonderful board members

Bart and Molly

Congresswoman Na of Korea

Sam Perkins and me (I'm the shorter one!)

Kerry,Janet Fletcher and Molly

Mark of P&G

Graeters of Cincinnati

our favourite company!