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RE: Another Timothy story - 4/17/2008 8:12:58 PM
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We have had such a crazy week so far. On Monday we went to the library and checked out some books and I've barely started the first one. Monday evening we got a call from the ball team that they've finally gotten a team together, so Jay started practices on Tuesday. He also had practice tonight. On Wednesday there was a team coming up from South Carolina to work on a house here in town that's going to be a home for troubled girls, and our church was bringing lunch for them. After that, I took one of the ladies to Terre Haute and we shopped for Passover, and I didn't even have time to comb my hair when I got back before it was time for church. One of the ladies I met at Co-op has started coming to our church and she's helping me in Missionettes now, so I only had to teach two clubs at once instead of four.
Then of course today is co-op, and yesterday the music teacher called and asked if I could help with the recorder class. She's got some students that are not catching on as quickly as the others and wanted me to take them into another classroom and teach them. I don't know how to play the recorder, but I can read music, so I agreed to do that. The girls taught me G, A, and B and I worked on those notes with two boys and a girl. One of the boys decided halfway through the class that he didn't want to take it anymore.
Share-the-Fun (the 4-H talent show) was on the calendar for tonight, but I wasn't sure if we were still having it or not. The lady at the extension office had said only two other acts had signed up, and had talked about canceling it. Today she called and said one girl had dropped out and she couldn't get a hold of the other girl and so she was saying the girls could just go on to the Area contest since they'd be winners by default. An hour later she called back and one of the girls was going, so it was still on. We rushed the girls through showers and they put on their leotards and I did their hair and make-up and we took off.
As the girls were going up on stage, I got a call on my cell phone. I had set it to vibrate. I looked at the number and knew it was important. Sure enough, it was my brother-in-law calling to say that my sister Emily is in labor. I was pretty excited. When I returned to my seat, the re-announced the girls since I'd missed it, and they did their ballet. It was beautiful. It turned out they did have competition, but the girls won and are going to the Area contest.
Tomorrow Erick is going to be gone at a Vision Team retreat for a couple of days. Our old church is paying for our church to go through it. Then Sunday is Passover and my family is coming down. I'm so ready for a week with nothing going on.
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I'm an aunt! - 4/18/2008 7:28:34 AM
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My sister had her baby last night, at 1:00 AM. Baby Evangeline was breech, so she was delivered by C-section. She was 6 lbs, 8 oz. I can't wait to see her!
We had an earthquake this morning, about 5:45AM. It woke us up. It shook the house pretty good, but it didn't last too long--maybe half a minute. It was kind of scary.
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Long day - 4/25/2008 8:26:14 AM
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Yesterday I loaded up all the kids, plus one, into our van and took off to go to homeschool co-op. I had been taking the car, and leaving Timothy at home, because the van gets better gas mileage. I can only fit six people into the car. But one of the girls' friends spent the night, and also Erick had asked me to take Timothy with me so he could concentrate on working on a sermon.
I filled up with gas at a town halfway between here and co-op. Actually, I only put in about thirteen gallons, but the pump automatically shuts off at $50 when you use your card now, and gas was $3.57 a gallon there. I think my van must have fainted, because when I went to restart it, it just made a click and that was all.
I called Erick on the cell phone and he came about fifteen minutes later in the car. If I hadn't had a guest with me I might have just gone home and not worried about trying to get to co-op, but her mom was going already on her scooter and doesn't have a cell phone so I knew she'd be worried about her daughter if we didn't show up.
I did take the kids in the car, double-belted, except for Timothy, and brought them to co-op. We were only about fifteen minutes late. Then I went back to where Erick and Timothy were waiting for me. He had gotten help and pushed it to a nearby parking lot. Erick thought it was the alternator, so we went back home and got tools and then came back to the van and took out the alternator and the battery. We drove to Auto Zone (in the same town where the kids were at co-op) and I left him there to get the battery tested, and I went and got the kids because co-op was over and it was lunch time. I also stopped and got some McDonald's for Erick since we hadn't packed a lunch for him. Then we drove over to the park, next to Auto Zone, and Erick walked over and joined us. The alternator and battery both tested out fine, so that wasn't the problem. We ate our lunch at the park and the kids played for awhile. Then I went to take them to the gym time at another church, and Erick and Timothy walked over to Walmart to get a few things we needed while I was gone. I met him back there, and then we went back up to the town where the van was.
We started to put the alternator back in, and then realized that one of the nuts was missing. They had forgotten to put it back on at Auto Zone. Instead of driving all the way back to the other town, we went down the street to the hardware store and bought a new one for a nickel. Then we went back to where the van was, put in the alternator and the battery, and then he banged on the starter and that did the trick. He and Timothy took the van home and I went back to the gym and got the rest of the kids and took them home, because by that time gym time was over.
So we need to replace the starter on the van. Erick is talking about buying something newer and financing it, which I really don't want to do. We haven't had debt in a couple of years. He's worried that it's not going to last much longer, and the amount we have saved back would only buy us another old beater. His idea is to put down about $1500 and finance $1500 and get something in the $3000 range, and pay it off in about six months using the money we are putting back in savings each month. That would put us back some in our plan to save for retirement. He doesn't want to wipe out our entire savings which is why he's talking about taking out a small loan. I suppose it wouldn't be the end of world, but I really don't like the idea. He doesn't think it's going to last much longer.
I'm considering starting a ballet school here, but not for another year. I want to teach it at co-op first this fall and see how it goes before I try and start one of my own. If I could make some money doing that maybe we can get back on track with our financial plan. Erick's going to find out if our church board has any policies about making money using the church building. If I could do it there and didn't have any overhead, I wouldn't have to charge very much for lessons and I could still make money. I think it would be better than trying to take a part time job.
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Jay's first game - 4/30/2008 7:42:32 AM
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Jay had his first baseball game last night. We all went. It was actually the first time I've been to a real baseball game. We used to play with the neighbor kids growing up, but that's all the exposure to baseball that I've had.
The uniforms from the sponsors hadn't come in yet, so they told the kids to all just wear shirts with a number on the back. They must have also had said for them all to wear red shirts, but somehow we missed that part. Jay didn't have a red shirt with a number anyway, so he wore a purple one. He was feeling really out of place wearing a different color of shirt, but I think he'll survive.  Besides, their uniforms come in Friday.
Since Jay's team was kind of thrown together at the last minute and began practices late, they really hadn't had much time to work on things like batting or stealing bases. They'd worked a lot on catching and running, but that's about as far as they had gotten. So they lost their first game, 7-1. They were really happy for the one run they did get.
Jay struck out both times he was up to bat. They have him batting left handed for some reason. He's right handed, so I'm not sure what's up with that.
It was cold, though. We all wore jackets, and we wished we had worn coats. I finally took Timothy into the van and read a book. The purple shirt Jay was wearing came in really handy, because I could see him all the way from the van and I could get out and watch him when he was up to bat. If he'd been wearing a red shirt like the other boys, I wouldn't have known who was who.
At one point in the game, one of the boys hit the ball over the fence and it busted out the windshield of a van out in the parking lot.  It was interesting.
Jay's next game is Friday.
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Van - 5/3/2008 1:31:29 PM
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We bought a van off Ebay! It's a '94 Dodge Ram van. It's in Illinois, so we'll have to drive over and get it, but we got it for $800 so we didn't have to go take out a loan on it. (Big sigh of relief!) We just have to sell our other van now. The motor is great in it, it's just the body that's falling apart. He replaced the starter and it hasn't had any more problems.
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RE: Van - 5/6/2008 10:03:33 AM
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We picked up our van yesterday, which was also Abby's birthday. She gets to pick her seat first, since it was her special day. We had a little party for her, and she got a doggie in a doggie carrier and a kite, and on Thursday we're going to take her and one of her friends to McDonalds after co-op.
This morning Erick and I sat down and made a list of all the vehicles we've ever owned. We're up to twenty-nine now, if we've counted right. We've spent enough money on buying used vehicles over the years that we could have owned some really nice ones by now. <sigh>
Here's the list we came up with. The first three he owned before he even had his driver's license.
$100--Chevy Citation, 82, red and rust
$50--84 Renault Alliance, red
$100--72 Ford pick-up, blue
$0--Tan Dodge D50 with wooden homemade bed, 82 or 84 (This had an unique feature--the passenger side door didn't close right. We nearly lost our chaperone a few times when we were out courting.)
$500--79 gold Chevy pickup
$100 plus trade--79 White Caprice (This is the car we had when we got married)
$1000--87 Chevy S10, 2 tone gray
$0--Blue Chevette, 88 (This is the car we had when Jay was born)
$1000--Gray Ford Tempo, 87 (first loan)
$500--76 Chevy Crew Cab, red
$3000--87 Oldsmobile, Delta 88, blue (second loan) We gave this one to Erick's sister after she helped us for six weeks when Erick was in the hospital.
$100--plus trade (he traded the red Chevy Crew Cab--one of the worst deals we ever made!) 78 Ford F100, sea green
$0--Brown Chevy Van, 87 (we never actually drove this one--Dad gave it to us, but we never came and got it so he gave it to someone else.)
$50--Red Dodge with no engine, 84 or 85 (Erick tried and tried to fix it but finally gave up.)
$0--Pontiac Parnesian? (We fixed it up and gave it to a single mother who needed a car.)
$500--Ford Ranger, 84, black
$800--Burgandy Chevy Van that we got in Decatar, 87
$500--Tan Dodge Van from Erick's parents, 86. (I'm not sure if we actually paid them for it, though. I think we finally just gave it back to them because we couldn't come up with the $500.)
$1000--White Jeep Wagoneer, 4X4, 79, (The back window kept falling out. He bought this when he had his newspaper route.)
$0--77 Ford F150 Extended Cab, Long bed, bad blue and black paint job.
$0--Brown 75 Ford Crew Cab. This was given to us by a friend, but he couldn't find the title. Erick parked it down by his Mom and Dad's house before we moved to Missouri, and Ericks family eventually got tired of having it around and got rid of it.
$8500--98 gold Ford Windstar. Third and biggest loan. Sold it for way too little. First vehicle we bought when we moved to Missouri. We wished we would have kept it. It was nice.
$1200--87 Mazda 323, gold, dependable until the wheel fell off.
$2200--87 Suburban, blue. This is what we bought for the family when we sold the Winstar.
$500--89 Pontiac Safari Station Wagon, rust in abundance.
$1000--94 blue Buick Skylark. Died the day we moved.
$0--Blue 84 Ford Van, given to us by a homeschool family.
$1650--Mecury Grand Marquis, white, 92
$800--Dodge Ram B150, white, 94
So that's our the sordid history of our vehicle ownership. I've always said that I'm sure glad Erick doesn't go through women the way he goes through vehicles!
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Rain - 5/11/2008 8:58:47 PM
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We have had so much rain this week. On Tuesday we planted grass seed in the front yard. They had done some work with the drains last year, and it was all still dirt, so we worked all day tilling, raking, and leveling it off, and then planting grass. We were so tired by the end of the day, and then it started raining. It rained Tuesday night and all of Wednesday. We had a fish fry at the church, and they had to do it under the car port because of the rain. Jay was supposed to have had a game that night, too, but it was cancelled. It rained all Wednesday night. It rained all through co-op on Thursday. I was helping with the preschoolers, and we couldn't take them outside because of the rain. We also had Abby's birthday party, and we had hoped to go the park, but it was raining. They also cancelled Jay's baseball practice.
It continued to rain Thursday night, and most of Friday. It stopped for awhile, and Erick went out and mowed the lawn. The grass was really too wet to mow, but the church had just purchased a brand new mower, and so he couldn't resist. About the time Erick left to take Jay to his game, and I left to take the girls to the Area Share-the-Fun (they didn't place) it started raining again. It rained off and on through his game. (They didn't win.)
It rained some Friday night, and didn't rain almost at all on Saturday. Erick finished up the lawn. Towards evening, it started clouding up, and it rained all night long last night. It was storming really bad by this morning, and the wind was so loud I had a hard time sleeping. It's rained through church and rained all afternoon and evening, and it's still raining.
I'm ready for a sunny day.
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