What a week!

Whoa was this a long week. I am so thankful it is Friday! The week started with me getting up at 4:30 to take John to the airport. My wonderful boss, hired John for the week to help one of my co-workers field measure a lodge in Stratton Mountain, VT. We are so grateful and thankful that he gave John this opportunity. Anyway, so I was on my own on Monday. No big deal. After Tanisha's drama practice we went for a walk on the greenway as it was almost 80 degrees. We stopped for awhile to let Hutson play on the playground, and sissy actually played with him. That doesn't happen all the time. We took Peanut with us. I was a little weary, because Peanut thinks that he's a 100 lb pit bull, and will bark at people and other dogs. But was very well behaved, and I think he was just so out of shape that he didn't have the energy. He had to catch a ride with Hutson for part of it... see pic below, not great quality as I took it with my phone.

Well, Tuesday I had my own flight to catch to Richmond, so again I had to get up at 4:30. John's brother spent the night with us Monday night so the kids could sleep in there own bed's and not at Poppy and Dee Dee's (thanks Uncle Bryan). The rest of Tuesday thru Thursday was a blur.... work till 5:30, have dinner with co-worker, work again till 10:00 each night, get up at 5:30 (4:30 tn time) go to work and so on and so forth. I got home about 9:30 last night (10:30 VA time). Dee Dee let Hutson stay up till I got home and then the kids and I all piled into my bed. John is still in Vermont. Well, Hutson so excited that Mommy was home kept talking and kicking his sister, and wanting to play under the covers. I finally told him that if he didn't hold still he was going to have to go to his own bed- which is where he ended up. And Tanisha and I got a great nights sleep. Note to all the kids hardly ever sleep with us, and it's been quite a while since Tanisha has slept with me. She used to always ask, when she was younger, and John was out of town, but I guess you get too big to do that.

And to end I have some exciting news!!! And no I'm not pregnant :) While I was waiting for my desperately needed coffee to make this morning, I started going thru the mail from the week. And in the mail was a letter from Duke University. For those of you who don't know, Tanisha did so well on her state tests last year (98% or better on everything) she was invited to take the ACT in December with all the high schoolers. If she did well enough, then she would be accepted into Dukes Talented program for Middle Schoolers. She took the test and we got her results back in January. She did very well for a 7th grader, but I wasn't sure it was enough to get into the program. John's mom did tell us that there were high schoolers that would have been ecstatic with her results. Anyway, we thought that she had to have 3 out of 4 scores over a 21 to get into the program, however Tanisha only had 2 over 21 (other two were pretty close). WELL, the letter this morning was a congratulations to her that she was accepted!!!! When I get the big package will get all the details, but I am so proud of her!