Emergency room visit

April 28th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | 1 Comment »

Thursday night Ashley came out of her room hysterical because her earing back was missing! It was inside her piercing hole! The earing back had over time worked its way into her ear lobe.Which was a very unique situation I had never encountered before, even with all of my piercings. So I called the nurse line and was told head straight to the emergency room to have it removed.

The ER doctor was great, he numbed the ear lobe, then worked the back out of the hole. She was such a brave trooper, she cried only slightly when they injected the Novocaine and laid perfectly still through the whole event. Now we just have to wait for things to heal a bit before we put earing with backs on again. I think we will use safty backs for a few years til she is older.

Under Construction…again

April 27th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

Last Tuesday Paul decided to put a hole in another wall. He finally moved the back door from in the kitchen to in the dining room. I had been putting this project off because it was not as simple as it sounds. We also needed to frame in around the rear stairs to making a refrigerator closet. Well by Tuesday night the new door was in place… Along with the new window. We also got to add insulation to the wall and add a few extra square feet to the house.

My dining room and kitchen look huge. Of course now I have to clean up the mess that is left after construction projects. We still have siding to fix, and trim and casings to finish and a little more drywall and paint. But the major construction part is done for now.

busy, busy, busy

April 20th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

Well I am working a lot more now. The school has me in as a substitute almost everyday I am available. I am getting more comfortable with the classes and it is exciting because there are kids who know me in almost every class.

I have made some contacts through school that have become invaluable to me with my efforts here in Chatham County. I am working on making changes here in within the Board of Education. Paul is helping by sending e-mails to important people, and we are getting noticed. So noticed in fact that the fundraising efforts for a playground for Ashley’s school are no longer necessary. We have been told that the Board is going to step up and that Islands Elementary will have an appropiate playground with fencing and walking paths before school starts next year.

Ashley is doing great! She made High honor roll for another quarter. She is really into Highlights puzzle books and Webkins. We are still working on special projects here at home, but with the big tests comming up here in a week we are taking a break from those projects to just let her relax. She has started martial arts and loves it. We try to get her to classes at leas 3 days week.

Crap!

April 16th, 2008 by coral | Posted in school | No Comments »

Okay there are less then two weeks left of the regular semester before finals. I am starting to feel swamped. I have an 8-10 page paper due for Civilizations class about human rights. I have 2 papers and 1 final persuasive speech to prepare for Speech Comm class. For Macroecon I have a quiz and a final test which is about the only things I don’t really have to worry about at this time. Then Finally I have Algebra, We just got through logarithms and now we are on to systems. I am surviving however I have a cumulitive final in that class. That scares me big time since it could make or break my grade.

On another note, I am working a lot! I am subing every day I am available this week. I am in Ashley’s school all the time!

This is histerical

April 4th, 2008 by coral | Posted in school | No Comments »

More Fund-raiser

April 2nd, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

WSAV had a great story about our fundraiser last night.

http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news/education_.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2008-03-31-0017.html

I think I might be able to actually post the video but since my brother (who has a life) can’t answer his phone right now I don’t know how to do it.

Playground Fund-raiser

April 1st, 2008 by coral | Posted in school | No Comments »

Tonight we had a fund-raiser at a local business for Islands Elementary playground. This was huge deal because a local business was so excited to help they offered to donate a nights proceeds to the cause. I hope to post links to the news coverage, it was a great event.

The Azaleas are in bloom

March 28th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

The Azaleas in my front yard are in full bloom. They look beautiful!

It’s obvious to me that spring is here. Not only are the flowers in bloom, but Paul is dismantling the house again. It started with the bathroom floor that needed to be replaced…  Then he decided he would finish my project, and get the last interior door finished and hung back up. Now he has decided to refinish all of our upper cabinets in the kitchen.

Anyway this is how I know that Spring is here, because Paul starts these projects, and he has even finished the bathroom floor and the door, but my kitchen remains doorless.

Now he’s got a day off work and he’s going fishing.

Pictures as promised

March 17th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

Here are the few pictures I have of Ash at the parade. Unfourtunatly none of them are great cause she was off and running all day. Once we got home she was out of green and playing with friends.

The first two are pictures of Ashley with her friends jumping the baracades trying to get herself arrested for giving beads to the pipers and drummers! Then next two are the Crab Shack float with the jamacian band that they bring in to play every year for the parade (from what I am told anyway). Finally this is Ashley and her friend Jaquline and one of the adults showing off with the green feather boa!

St. Patrick’s Day cont…

March 15th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | 2 Comments »

Well Ashley made the news coverage of the parade!!! You can see for yourself….

http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/features/stpatricks/parade.html

The footage of her is at 16:40 in the part 1 of the parade. I am sure she is on film more then just this one time, but I have not been able to go through all 3 hours worth parade coverage.

On a side note, Paul did were a green tie to work, and a green earing too! It was his way of representing his Irish side.

Pictures of Ashley and the parade to follow…