Hair cuts

Yesterday was an eventful day. Elizabeth has been asking me for over a year to get her hair cut short. She sees her friends with straight, thin hair, get cute little bobs. I have told her that her hair will not lay like that, but she just kept on bugging me. Sunday morning, I finally gave in. We decided to cut enough off to send to Locks for Love. Yesterday we took 10 inches off the back of her hair, and it is so pretty. I will have to take a straight iron to it and that will be extra work, but she is happy. Leah and I also got a "snip-it", she called it. This was Leah's first ever hair cut. She felt so big getting to get her hair cut like the other "big" girls. Eric thinks everyone, including Elizabeth, looks cute and approves. After getting our hair cut last night, we spent the rest of the night picking up the house so the cleaning lady could come and doing homework.

This last weekend was another entertaining weekend. I told Eric we have had company at our house so much in the last two months. Eric's brother's wife and two kids came over Saturday. We watched Eric make me a brick path from where we park our cars to the deck. He did such a wonderful job and didn't fuss a bit. We did a little to help, but mainly we just enjoyed gossiping together. It was such a nice weekend. Elizabeth went with mom and dad to Clinton to pick peaches and see Aunt Marg and Uncle Si and Leah stayed with us. I think she kind of regretted staying with us, because she was crying when she got up that morning, saying "I want my sissy." We took her to eat Chinese and look at campers, so that helped her mood.

I know this blog is all over the place, my writing skills stink today, but it will have to do. Many things to do and not near as much time to get them done as I use to have.

School has begun

Elizabeth started school on Wednesday. She has just one teacher this year, where as the last two years she had her day split between the two. We have caught the bus on time each day and she has successfully made it walking to the baby sitter's house after she gets off the bus. The Sheridan school district has decided not to let Poyen run anymore buses in Sheridan's school district, except for 4 locations. Since Prattsville is in the Sheridan School district, Elizabeth has to catch the bus at a church down the road from the babysitters. This isn't a problem in the morning, just a problem in the afternoon, when she has to cross two roads and go through a store parking lot. She has a couple of others to walk with, so I think it is going to be OK. She likes her teacher and has had two nights of homework and daily reading. She hasn't fussed too much yet.
Last night we met an old friend in Little Rock for supper. I was on facebook yesterday morning, when I saw that he was in Little Rock. My best friend from high school moved to Iowa after a year at college, and met her husband there. They have 3 beautiful girls. He is career military, and was in Little Rock for computer training. We went to a nice New Orlean's style restaurant, Copeland's, and had a great meal. It was so good to see him, she married a nice guy.
Today is a beautiful day. There is no humidity, there is an occasional breeze, and it's not hot!! I wish everyday could be this nice. Leah and I are enjoying the deck right now, I am blogging and she is making dirt birthday cakes. I hope she enjoys her last year of freedom . She has also, today, worked on the letter "A" and watched Return of the Jedi. What a life. I would say life is very good for her now.

Work, Work, Work

I have had a busy last two weeks, enjoying revival at Shiloh, but not enjoying work. We met a all time record at Baptist this last week. We are now taking care of over 900 patients. When I started working for Baptist about 11 1/2 years ago, I worked out of a small office in Sheridan, where we had 2 nurses that case managed about 25 pt each. When our office closed in Sheridan, we went to Little Rock, and I knew every employee. Now I don't know half of the nurses, and I don't know many of the office staff. A lot has changed in the last 10 years. I've been told home health is the wave of the future. I think it may be true.
I had my sweet Nonnie come last week to clean house. She can put the sparkle on! I have managed to keep our house picked up for the last week, so I have been able to invite people over!! It's not spotless, but its sure not embarrassing either. Sunday night, Dennis and Robin came over to help me eat a watermelon after church. It looked like a 25lb watermelon, and Dennis loves watermelon as much as I do. He ate 1/2 of that melon, and let Robin have a few bites here and there. Yesterday, Eric was off of work to go see his doctor to have his blood pressure medicine refilled. He spent the rest of the day bush hogging and working on a disk for the tractor. Nathan, his brother, came to help and brought his son John. The kids enjoyed playing together, including Nathan and Eric. I fixed grilled duck, long grain rice, and green beans. John used to be a picky eater, so we told him it was chicken. He loved it anyway, and when we told him it was duck, he was just excited to hear his daddy and uncle Eric had helped kill it. After they left, Eric had some more friends that showed up to try duck, Anthony Jarret and his son, Nathan. There wasn't any sides left, so they ate duck and then helped finish the watermelon. The girls played while we visited, then Elizabeth read her Aunt Janna's blog before going to bed. We start school next week. We found out that we have Mrs Roark this year for second grade. I am so sad that my oldest is in second grade.