Well, I had all intentions of staying current with the blog... No excuses, I will just get to the update! :) Let's start with Tyler... she is doing well - School is out for the summer in two days (not that she is reminding us daily). She is getting reading for the rigors of summer swim team... daily work outs and she will be walking to and from which is a work out in itself...Then she will fill up the rest of the time with friends and "hanging out". Her current favorite thing to talk about is the upcoming 13th birthday. She wants a co-ed swim party at our house with parents on their best behavior...followed by an all girls sleep over. So this is sounding like 24 hours of giving up our privacy, peace and quiet and in general our home... sure, why not right? How could I forget the frog she brought home from school today... she is the lucky student to keep the frog over the whole summer... joys of life :) she is happy and Dylan will love it...and the best part, we get to give it back at the end of the summer... a pet with no long term commitment.
Now Dylan is also doing well, she is getting ready to change to a new Montessori preschool. her school is closing (very sad story)... but we found something real close by that is just perfect... they even have daily yoga! It is just going to be great. Dylan acts like it will be "no big
deal" so I hope that continues. She starts June 8. Right now her preoccupation is getting mommy into the swimming pool with her... she loves to kick around or play on the steps... she has two pretty swimsuits and loves to wear them. She is exercising a lot of "will" these days and challenging authority or mainly mommy... doesn't like to go to bed... she thinks owls are in there (when she hears the wind whistle through the windows... ) sort of cute. Kirk and I are as fine as we can be... one or both are going through mid-life crisis and don't enjoy each other's company... but we will survive. I am enjoying a short break in graduate classes (another two weeks and back to work).
As if I need the stress, I am in the running for two additional principalships outside of my district... one of these days, it will be my turn... have to keep trying - you just never know. Kirk is still a cycling maniac on the road and on the mountain... he reads everything on the topic and has the scientific formula for checking his cadence, heart rate, etc.... to determine exercise effect etc... He is "into it"!
My biological sister, Sheila, was driving through Chandler... remember, she is a long haul truck driver... and gave us a call so the girls and I got to "hang out" at the truck stop with her for two hours... that was fun... how could it not be with candy, junk toys, and ice cream all right there - we had fun visiting and playing with the toys...Dylan was especially fond of Sheila... cried a lot when it was time to go, wants Sheila to come to our house to visit and play with her.
So in summation... we are all doing well enough, progressing through life in our appropriate stages and staying relatively happy. What more could we want? Maybe I will get another post in before another month passes us by...
