what a long week this has been ....

Even though I did not work every day this week I feel like it has been a long long week.

Monday- worked all morning.... we had 4 clerks scheduled.... one girl went to the wrong Post Office ( we have 2 in susanville) so she ended up staying there to work because no one called her to tell her hey you are at the wrong PO and then one of the other clerks he was just there for an hour to help out and get a little OT before his regular shift up at the other post office ...... SO we were totally late getting the carriers to the street. Not a good thing at all! So I ended up staying until I had to leave to pick up the kids from school then we had soccer that evening back in town - in the FREEZING cold - dallen already had a cold so we ended up watching the 2nd half from the car ( it was parked pretty much on the field so it is not like i left claira alone )

Tuesday- i had the day off and i think i pretty much slept all morning i think i got just about nothing done the entire day

Wednesday - i worked again but only till 12:30 - then we had soccer in the evening and then achievement day too

Thursday - I had off and Eddie and I went to the meat sale - every six months this grocery store in town has a huge meat sale - the prices are pretty good so when we can afford it we always buy a ton of meat - and since we are just about out of beef from our cow we bought a bunch. Then Eddie and Jim went shooting with Jim's son Michael - the kids and i got home from school the same time they did and Dallen was so mad that they went without him. then Chance and little chance came over when Jim and Michael were leaving and they ended up staying for dinner.

Friday- I worked again only till 11:00 so not too long - I had this horrible pain in my side like in the appendix area and I did not really feel like going to urgent care so i took a little nap and tried to get rid of it ... finally it went away - my visiting teacher was supposed to come over but she ended up not feeling well too so i had the afternoon free

sat- I worked again but only in janesville I helped out there and it was not bad at all - they close the window there by 10 and so you get to go home by 10:30 and i did not have to be there till 7:30 so that was nice and with it being a whole 8 min drive it was so much better than driving into town - we got another cat- from a friend of mine who just wanted to get rid of hers - he is a year old so we will see if we can keep this one around - he is living in the back garage right now we are hoping that if we give him a home in there maybe he will stick around and eat the dang mice - claira went to a friends to play for the afternoon and dallen and i went to town and did some shopping

today- today was dallen's end of the year wrestling party - we did a BBQ at the park out here ( i brought cookie salad- a lot of people were passing on trying it but once a couple people did everyone loved it and wanted the recipe LOL ) they gave out awards to all the kids and they gave the die hards ( the kids that stuck around and finished the season) some shorts that they had janesville wrestling printed on them - so Dallen of course got the shorts - and once coach said dallen was a really good wrestler and the only thing he wished that dallen would do different is to smile more ( cause when we are at a tournament he is very serious and is all about winning) then another coach said " If you could clone a wrestler this is the wrestler I would want to clone" I thought that was really nice, that same coach has talked to me through out the season and told me how much he loves that dallen listens and then does exactly what they ask for and that he gives it his all and does not screw around at practice. ( yeah cause if he did i would kick his little butt!!!!) It was a nice day out today I think I even got a little sun burnt from being out in the sun all afternoon -

wow feels like a long week huh - sorry no pics again i have been lazy on the pics LOL

long update...

Wow it has been a long time since I updated ( and my mom has only told me to update once- good job mom)

I am officially going to start working part time next week! Woo Hoo - 6 days a week was just too much and then I tried 5 and that was still too much. So I decided Mon Wed and Fri are enough. The Susanville Post Master was not too excited but he did not give me any grief about it. I just could not stay up till E would get home from work and then get up early to go to work everyday it was just killing me. So 3 days a week woo hoo!

Reno Worlds was an experience to remember... We knew that it would be a challenge for Dallen but we figured that it was worth a shot. He tried hard but he did not win. ( the kids he wrestled were way out of his league - this is only his first year and the other kids have been wrestling for 3 to 5 years so they know their stuff - and for some of them this is their life wrestling everyday and going to big tournaments like this one but we have just been doing it for fun. ) He ended up in 5th place and he was not happy about it. (my kids get really upset when they are not 1st or 2nd or do not get an A on tests) He did not even want me to take a picture of him with his medal - He did get a pic taken with a guy (what his name is I have no clue - but he is like mega in the wrestling world) and you were not allowed to take your camera in the area they were taking the pics. They do this so they can make some money. And I mean mega money. I ordered a copy of the pic with the guy- I only got one and I think it is only a 5 X 7 - it was a whopping 23 bucks - Dallen Sooooo did not want me to order one but I thought hey this could be a once in a lifetime deal for him or he may want to continue with wrestling thru high school and this might mean something to him later. So once I get the pic I will share it but I still have not gotten it yet. I do not have any pics of Dallen at wrestling because you could not take your camera down to the floor and I was down on the floor with him for every wrestle so no pics. So wrestling is over now we just have a team party next weekend and we are done for the season.

Now we are onto the next sport- Soccer - Claira is playing spring soccer it is just a short 6 week season ( thank heavens) She is playing in the under 12 division even though she could have played in the under 10 - but for fall she has to play U-12 so I figured why not get her used to it now. In spring soccer the teams are co-ed. She was not too excited about that and I really thought she would hide when she was up against a boy but she hasn't. She even went up against a "Big Bubba" in the last game and he kicked hard and she put her leg out to block it and Wham it hit her shin guard Hard- all the parents went "oooowwwee" after the game she said look mom I did not even cry. No soccer pics yet because we have only had 2 games and it has been windy and rainy so I did not want to take my camera out of the car.

Today is Dallen's birthday. He is turning 8 - he is having his first sleepover today with 2 of his friends. It is a crazy mad house right now - I am wondering what I was thinking when I said yes to a sleepover. luckily it is not too many boys

more update later - asta la vista baby