Boss in '08

Alan Boss for President '08 (click here)


With all the excitement around the Democratic and Republican Conventions, I thought I would try my hand at politics and throw my hat in the ring. I've asked Eden to be my campaign manager. She stuck out her tongue at me. Maybe Rebecca will do a better job.

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time for SCHOOL

Today started the 2008-2009 school year for Hannah, Peter, and Joseph. I couldn't believe that they are all in school. Everything went without a hitch other than their bus being 20 minutes late. When they got off the bus, mom was there with all the extra bags of school supplies.

Hannah (4th Grade) rolled her eyes and said, "I need to go" and promptly walked off. Peter (1st Grade) looked lost and bewildered. Joseph (Pre-K) just kept walking even though he had no idea where to go.

Joseph and I helped Peter find his teacher (for some reason the 1st graders met in the lunch room). Joseph asked when lunchtime was and where he would eat it. Silly kid! Once we found where Joseph went he got a little shy and nervous. I stayed and talked with his teacher for a minute and gave her all of his school supplies. When I left, Joseph was in a little rocking chair reading a book. He looked so little to be leaving him all day.

It was so quiet...almost too quiet. Maybe I should do something about that!?

Joseph admitted that the bus is a little scary, because it goes so fast. He loved his teacher (Ms. Scepura) and liked all of the boys and girls in his class even though he can't remember their names. Hannah loves her teacher (Mr. Haslup) and is very excited to be back in school. And Yes she had homework today!! (something I am not looking forward to.) Hannah did have one upset today. She started crying because she was really worried that Joseph and Peter wouldn't know what bus to get on because it was the blue bus and not the lime bus that they had last year. (They use colors instead of numbers to identify which bus is which.) What a good big sister!! Peter had a really good day! He really liked his teacher (Mrs. Moran) and there were some kids that he knew from his kindergarten class in his new class. Although his best friend Matthew isn't in his class, he still got to play with him at recess. In fact, Peter was so pleased, he told us at first he couldn't find Matthew at recess and was going to do something else but then Matthew found Peter. Nothing warms my heart more than to know that Peter has found a friend. The greatest part about today is that everyone is excited to go back tomorrow!!

Summer is gone.....

and so hopefully I will begin to have some down time and will be able to blog more often. There is much to report on and share, starting with our fabulous trip to CA. With school starting tomorrow I will be able to do that!

Expensive lessons

About a week ago Hannah broke our toilet seat by standing on it and then jumping off. She had already broken one a while back doing this same thing. Alan decided that it would be good for her to have to pay for it so that she won't be tempted to do it again. He talked to her on Friday night and asked her who she thought should have to pay for a new toilet seat. Mom? No. Eden? No. Grandpa? No. Then who? Hannah. He even gave the example that if he got in a car accident, he would have pay for the damage, wouldn't he?

It was a hard night. She cried and cried and didn't want to have to give up her money. But we have stuck to our guns.

To drive the point home......

As a family we went to a house warming party on Saturday night. We had a great time but it was getting late so we decided to head out. While I was finishing a conversation, Alan took all the kids to the car. A few minutes later he came back in and told one of our friends, Amy Hutchinson, that he had just hit her truck as we was backing up. It is a midnight blue color, it was a very dark night, and he didn't see it. Unfortunately he actually did quite a bit of damage ($1625), breaking her side view mirror and denting her door in a couple of places, and breaking our tail light. Alan (of course) took full responsibility and made sure that Hannah heard that he was going to pay for what he had done, even though Amy was trying to downplay it and kept saying that we would work it out later.

On the way home Hannah asked if Dad was going to have to pay for it. He explained that Amy would get her truck fixed and then she would give us a bill and Dad would pay her the amount of the bill. She said, "Wow, Dad that is going to be expensive!"

The things we do to drive a point home with our kids!!