Updates

So here are a few things that have been going on since the last time I really posted. (Uhm... Yeah, that would be back in July.)

Matthew is in kindergarten this year. He is in the afternoon class - which works well for me. Apparently AM classes start at 7:45. Are you kidding me??? I had a hard time when school started at 8:20am, and now they have kids starting 35 minutes earlier. Next year is going to be a rude awakening to our normally scheduled lives.

He has learned quite a lot at school, apparently. I don't really know. He never tells me. When I ask how school was he says, okay. When I ask what he did he says, I don't remember. So, if you happen to see my child - ask him about school. Then fill me in with whatever he tells you. I have been told stories by friends about Matthew and how much he enjoys school and what he is doing. I guess he really is learning something while there. Every once in a while I will hear him singing a song when he is playing. I'll ask him what he is singing... Oh, a song my teacher taught me. (?!?!?!?! - I thought you couldn't remember what you did at school! - Okay, to be fair, I don't actually say that to him... it would just be too mean. And, I have decided to believe I'm not mean; enough people have told me enough times that I am not, so it must be true. I can't say thoughts like the one above... I can THINK them, but can't say them. I wouldn't want to disrupt this particular perception that folks seem to have about me.)

In December, my little boy turned 6 years old. Which means he isn't my "little" boy anymore. Yet I still get cuddles and lovin' from him. For which I am grateful. As the months and years continue to tick by I continue to dread the day when Matthew will be too old or too cool or too whatever to want love from his mama. As it stands now, even if I am dropping him off at school he still wants a kiss and hug goodby from me - no matter who is standing around to witness it.

We have moved. Into my grandparents house. We moved just before Thanksgiving, and are working on getting settled in. I think anything that has not been unpacked into its new home after 15 months will be thrown away. If I haven't had reason to find it, pull it out, whatever, in that amount of time - then we obviously DO NOT need it in our home!

I will have to see what pictures I can find, and put some new ones up. The little guy is getting bigger all the time! Oh yeah... almost forgot... he lost his first tooth almost two weeks ago. And now you can see his first "big" tooth getting ready to come in. I'm waiting for a top one or two to fall out so he talks with a lisp. I want to hear him sing the "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" song. That would really crack me up!

The problem with horoscopes...

Today's horoscope per my Yahoo home page: Get to the bottom of today's weird mood crisis -- you aren't entirely sure why you feel the way you do. Once you settle down and think things through, though, you ought to be able to make progress.

Okay people... I know exactly why I am in a weird mood crisis. I know that it is going to take time to get through it. There is nothing that can be done to hurry up or slow down the process... that is what moods/feelings are all about!!!

So I am making progress by posting my rant about horoscopes out here. You would think that by now I would have learned to stop looking at the things. They are never right and completely general. In my life, wisdom apparently does not come with age.