Discovery

Oh my GAAWWWHHHH!!!!! We discovered today that one of the Guineau Pigs that we so graciously took into our home is soon to be a Mother. Guess that makes me a grandmother????? So yet another visit to Petsmart and walla, ($95.00 later) she has her own private residence in which to make a loving home for her expected kiddos. I already know that one of these precious angels will be going to my nephew since my sister was so kind to think of my kids when her hamster gave birth earlier this year, making us the proud caregivers of Sandy (a.k.a. Stuart, or the escape artist) Now according to the online search engines, we can expect 3 to 5 babies so leave your comments to get on the waiting list.

Impulsive?

You Are 52% Impulsive

You're quite impulsive, but you never are reckless.You qualify as a very spontaneous person, but you still know how to honor your commitments.And while responsibility doesn't come easy to you, having fun does!

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Updates

We have had several busy weekends in a row. Last weekend was the County Fair. Blake placed 2nd in his class, which we were very pleased with. He also had his spot on the news which was very cute this time. He was not quite as nervous, plus they put a microphone on him while he was in the ring showing and it was much more natural. The cutest part of the clip was when they caught him at the end putting his head on Emmits and whispering "Good job Emmit" My parents were in town for the events as well. Quent was in the calf scramble on Friday night but didn't catch anything.

We returned late tonight from going to visit Shannon because he did not get to come home this weekend because he was on call. It sounds weird to say that since I am the one who is on call all the time. You could tell he was not used to the routine, every time we went in somewhere I had to get the phone that was issued to him for the weekend. I told him he would not make a very dependable Funeral Director, my pager has become such a part of my life that I feel naked without it.

Shannon has not heard anything from the interview he had here at home a few weeks back. He had such good vibes about it, but now we are getting a little discouraged. I pray that we hear good news this week. We had a chance to explore this weekend while we were visiting him. It is not a bad place at all and if it were not for school concerns, it would only make sense for us to relocate, none of us are ready to throw in the towel just yet though.

Problems with commenting

It has come to my attention through several emails that it is not possible to leave a comment on my posts. :( Since I am clueless about this whole blogger thing, I have no idea what is wrong or if there is anything at all I can do to fix it. PipeTobacco http://frumpyprofessor.blogspot.com/ said that it was a possible error in the Blogger Betta system which I signed up for thinking that it was the newest so therefore must be the best. Evidently I was wrong. Either I have done something wrong or they don't have all the kinks worked out yet.

Here it is 10:35 PM Texas time and we have just finished 2 homework assignments that Quent has known about since Tuesday but decides at 8:3o tonight to tell us about despite the fact that they are due tomorrow. I have asked him everyday when I pick him up at football, "OK. Quent, go through your day in your head, is there anything or in particular any homework you need to remember?" Always the answer is "No" I don't know what else to do. I have purchased calenders for him to write in, he is on ADD medications!!!! AAAWWWRRRGGG. I don't know how to get this boy organized other than to go to his classes with him everyday.

I don't know exactly how to do this, but Happy Birthday to my friend and neighbor http://www.annejones.blogspot.com/ Anne Jones. Ok, I have no idea how to make it just say Anne Jones and be a link to her blog, so bear with my stupidity.

A star is born!

Yesterday around 2PM I received a phone call from a local news anchor interested in filming the boys with their steers to promote the local Fair and Rodeo that begins today. I accepted with reluctance for several reasons, 1) Shannon was gone and I am not that great at "wrangling" these 800 LB. animals 2) Although I am ever so grateful for recent rains, the careless weeds have taken over my yard and I am not exactly anxious to show the surrounding area how behind we are on mowing 3) I had a feeling the boys would be quite shy and not give them a lot of material to work with. I did end up calling Shannon at work and asking if he could possibly leave work early and head home since he was coming home last night anyway because he has a job interview this morning!!!! Yea, I will keep you posted on how that goes.

All of that aside, the news showed up about 5:30 to film. They only filmed Blake because Q's steer is sick and he is not going to participate in the fair this year. Now Blake is my youngest and I have always said he has the "gift of gab" but he really froze up when that camera was pointed at him. It aired on the 10PM news last night and once the did their editing, it was a really cute piece. They are going to follow him all through the fair as he weighs in, grooms his steer, and finally shows. So they are doing an entire series. I hope Blake will warm up to the camera as they go because he has such a cute little personality to be captured.

September

I can't believe September has already arrived. The boys and I have made it through another week on our own. We are getting in a pretty good routine and I have to brag that all three of our beds have even been made everyday for the past two weeks. This is a first for us, I have never really been one to make the beds unless I know company is coming but I have decided that was not a very good example for them. Is it four weeks for a habit to be formed? My job has been a real challenge lately. There are so many interesting things that happen through my profession. I have been a Funeral Director for 7 years now and just when I think I have seen everything I am surprised by yet another family. I know I could get endless blogging material from these encounters but I fear that I would compromise the confidence these families place in me. Today I spent two hours with a man who came in to "pre arrange" everything because he was planning to take his own life in the near future. I felt truly inadequate but tried to counsel him as best I could. He refused to take any crisis numbers I could provide him and would not allow me to make any phone calls on his behalf.