Composition - en español

I had to write this for my clase de español this week and am pretty proud of it - especially considering I knew no Spanish (other than what Dora and Diego had taught me) a little more than a month ago!

(For those of you that can read Spanish, please keep in mind, I only know about 10 'ar' verbs and a handful of expressions and had to reach 1 page in length!)

---

Me llamo Robyn. Soy de los Estados Unidos de Pensilvania. Gusto miro la televisión, y hablo con mi familia.

Mi familia desayunamos a las seis y media de la mañana. Tengo dos hijos. Mi hijo se llama Julian y mi hija se llama Kathryn. Julian tiene siete años y Kathryn tienes cuatro años. ¡Ellos estan inteligentes y simpáticos y bonitos! Todos las días de le semana, llevo mis hijos a la escuala a las siete y cuarto de la mañana. Mi hija regresa a mi casa a las ocho y media de la mañana. Mi hijo regresa a mi casa a las dos y media de la tarde. Mi hijo trabaja en la tarea a las tres de la tarde. Mi esposo se llama Jason. ¡Él esta guapo y trabajador! Mi familia cenamos a las seis de la noche.

Trabajo en mi casa con la computadora. Miro la computadora todos las días. Trabajo a las mediodía hasta las dos de la tarde y las treis de la tarde hasta las cinco de la tarde. Trabajo veinticinco horas por la semana.

Tomo tres materias éste semester. Los lunes, los miércoles y los viernes tomo el español, las matemáticas y la salud. Los martes tomo la laboratorio de español a las ocho de la mañana. Mi primera clase los lunes, los martes, los miércoles y los viernes es a las ocho de la mañana. No hay las clases los jueves. Mi clase de matematicas es a las ocho de la mañana los lunes, los miércoles y los viernes. Mi clase de español es a las nueve de la mañana los lunes, los miércoles y los viernes. Mi clase de la salud es a las diez de la mañana. Estudio mucho de la noche. Tengo muchas tareas en las clases de matemáticas y español.

Todos los domingos, mi familia y yo vamos a la iglesia a las nueve de la mañana. Regresamos a las dos de la tarde. Nosotros vamos a la iglesia otra vez a las cuatro y media por enseñamos los niños a AWANA. Regresamos a mi casa a las siete de la noche. ¡Mi iglesia esta lejos de mi casa!

"New" clothes!

Hand me downs are the best thing ever! In going through clothes to give to Courtney and Billy, I found some "new" ones for our little ones....nice surprise!

The eclipse

Did anyone see the eclipse? This is not a great picture at all - Jason took some that will hopefully come out well. It was pretty neat to see - they say the next one will be in 2010...just around the corner!

Christmas in February

The kids spent this morning with Jason's mom and dad, and, as usual, came home loaded down with new toys. One of the new toys is this track, which they both loved and wanted to play with as soon as we got home. Kathryn got a very cool "lapatoppa" - a Disney princess laptop.

They also went bowling for the first time, and it seemed to be a big hit.

Thanks again, Grandma and Grandpa - even without the new stuff, they had a great time!

(a side note: Julian is sick again and looked so sad/unwell in the pictures I took before this one - so I asked him if he could look like he didn't feel yucky, and this is what he did! So funny)

Test update

Well, for those of you who were wondering, I have gotten 2 of my test grades back:

In Math - 82. I'm a little disappointed, BUT, my professor did say in class yesterday that a lot of people did really badly, and he was going to let people re-take the test if they wanted a 2nd chance. He said he did not recommend a re-take for people that had scored above 60 (the score of the re-take is the final grade whether it is higher or lower). Well, when the list of re-takers got around to me, there were already 6 or 7 names on it (and there are only about 15 people in the class!). Anyway, I am not re-taking. I'm satisfied with my B. And I feel a little better that I did as well as I did, considering....

In Health - a 97!!! I'm not going to let it bother me that he totally gave me points I didn't deserve. I know without a doubt that one whole essay type question was wrong - in no way correct - but he gave full credit for it. I guess taking AP classes in high school and learning how to BS on a paper are still serving me well!? Most likely, he was just feeling generous....

My third grade is not back yet - unfortunately my Spanish teacher has the flu - or something like it. Hopefully she'll be well soon and we'll be able to get our tests back. She has kids the same ages as mine, so I hope her kids don't get it too! This flu is really getting around. I am praying my extra zinc and vitamin C will help me not get it!!

Time to take a breath ...

This morning, I took a test in each of the classes I'm taking. I was surprised at just how stressful it was for me to have all 3 fall on one day. I did not feel as prepared as I wanted to for any of them, and when I finished this morning, I didn't walk away from any of them thinking I had aced it. The good thing is they are now behind me, and there's nothing I can do at this point to change the grades I earned on them.... So, now I can take a break, give myself permission to not open a book today, and since I'm in a lull at work as well, I plan to take some time to "smell the roses" today. Well, not roses since they aren't in bloom, but pine trees maybe. They smell pretty good :) I have been craving outside time, so I plan to indulge in that today - it is such a nice day!!!

Just a cute picture of the kids...

(And maybe you can't see in the picture, but Lucy actually seemed to be enjoying this!)

Happy Birthday, Emileigh!

My niece, Emileigh will turn 15 this Friday, and we got together Saturday to celebrate with a Fiesta! We are so blessed to have a wonderful person like Emileigh in our family, and I really enjoyed our get together...I was not in top form with picture taking, but I did take this one for Ronda

And this one of little Vivy with Aunt Ronda. I love the red hair, which we saw for the first time at this visit. She is so beautiful and has grown SO much since we saw her last at Christmas.

Finally SNOW!

It's funny that all of the predicted snow events this winter have either completely missed us or didn't end up the way they were predicted (getting much less snow). But last night we got "thunder snow" which was not predicted at all and was a wonderful surprise! Finally there was enough to play in - we got almost 3 inches of snow. The kids got to sled and make snow angels and even got to play with Jada, who we have not seen at our house since the summer. The snow was not the right kind to make snowmen, but we still had a lot of fun, and as tradition says we must, we ended with hot chocolate.

I'm not sure Lucy remembers past snows - she doesn't seem to know what to make of it. I am so thankful it came on a Thursday when I do not have any classes, so I didn't have to decide whether to skip class to play with my kids in the snow or be responsible and go to class. And I'm thankful Jason was able to stay home for a little bit to play before going to work. Now I'm excited to let the sun do its work and melt it, so we can all have safe travel tomorrow!

A long week...

It has been a long week, and I know Julian is not fully recovered because he didn't complain at all when I asked him to lay down and close his eyes for "just a couple of minutes". And then, of course, Lucy had to join in - no one can take a nap without her.

Back to school

Julian went back to school today. I was torn whether I should send him or not, but finally decided he could go back today. He had a fever yesterday afternoon (none since then) and still has a really yucky nose, etc. BUT, he also had a field trip today. He met his A.R. goal and his school was going to the movies as a reward for the ones that met their goal. While a part of me thought he should stay home one more day, I felt terrible making him miss that field trip. I just pray he doesn't get any of his friends sick. Their school policy is he should have been fever free for 24 hours before sending him back - I hope I don't regret sending him back too early. The flu really takes it out of a person, and I suspect he was only telling me he felt better so he could go on his trip today.

Anyway, he is much better and Kathryn did not get the flu, although she does have some kind of something - sinus flare up or URI, who knows. It looks like we'll be making a trip to the doctor for her today.

Our family doctor told me one time that the average elementary school child gets 2 viruses per month (on average). I believe it! But if little viruses and sinus issues are our biggest problem right now, I guess we're pretty blessed.

Poor thing...

Julian has the flu. Poor little guy, he just looks miserable. We went to the doctor today and he just took his first dose of tamiflu, so hopefully, he'll be over it pretty quickly. So far, the only symptom Kathryn is showing is the stuffy nose and cough - no fever, no body aches. I am praying she will not get the flu too (but the doctor did give us a prescription for her for tamiflu - just in case!). I know for sure next year we are all getting a flu shot....