Well as our weekend begins it looks like there will be little time to relax. My weekend seemed to start last night. After our last day of volleyball camp the coaches and families had dinner at Renee's house. I made a new crockpot Mac and Cheese that I found on a new blog I am following and it turned out really well! Austin even said it was the best macaroni he ever had! (Take that Kraft). We then swam and it felt so good after being in the gym. We of course played volleyball and had a lot of fun. The downfall, on our way home as I am driving I realize I have lost a contact. Now usually it wouldn't be a big deal but I am all out of contacts and can't order anymore until I go in for an appointment. Again not a big deal but I don't have vision insurance until the first day of work so I don't feel like paying when I can just wait. I hate to wear glasses for a month but it looks like that may be what I am going to do. Mom has a contact at home that she found while cleaning and it isn't the right prescription but it is one of my old ones so I am thinking I may try that, at least while I am at volleyball and such. To top it off I really want a new pair of glasses because the ones I have currently, I am pretty sure I got when I was a freshman in college. So not only are they a little outdated, they don't have the right prescription either. If only I could just order more contacts without paying to see the doctor!
Ok onto today. I of course have lunch with Great-Grandma and Grandma. I will have to write one day about our lunches. We are going to the Yard today and I am pretty excited! I haven't eaten there in quite a while and I love their food. I will say Coshocton is blessed with some pretty good local restraunts. We may not have very many but I think all of them are pretty good to eat at! One may not have the best service but that is why we don't go there very much anymore! Tonight we are headed to the Triple Lockes Theatre, our local theater to see the kids' production of 101 Dalmations. I really didn't think we would get to see it because it seemed like we always had something but it finally worked out. I don't think Chad and Pat are as excited as Darcy and I but they will survive.
Tomorrow we are headed to Lima to Brian and Andrea's for a family cookout. We are taking Taco Dip and Cucumbers, two family recipes. I am going to try to make them tonight as much as possible because we are leaving at 9 in the morning and I was going to get up and make cinnamon rolls in the morning and I don't think I want to get up any earlier!
Sunday we were planning on having a cook-out here with a slip and slide but it doesn't look like that is going to work. It just wasn't a good weekend and not many people can come. I am sure we will still do something but just not sure what. I think I have a softball game too but no one has told me for sure so I don't know and if no one tells me I'm not going. I know that sounds bad but I have gone a couple times to find out it was cancelled and I wasn't very happy.
Well that is the overview of the weekend's events as of right now. We will see how it all goes! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Don't Rain on Our Parade
Or our laundry!
Sunday has become laundry day at our house and since we don't have a dryer it also depends on the weather. Thankfully Sundays have been sunny and rain free...until this week. Pat and I had just had put up our 2nd load of laundry when we looked up and saw some dark clouds. I was convinced that it would just go around us but as I was doing some other stuff outside I started to realize it was not going to go around us but was going to hit us in mere seconds.
I called Pat outside and we hurried to get the clothes off the line. Looking back at it now we should have just left out the dark stuff because it was already pretty wet from just coming out of the washer but lesson learned.
Once we got the clothes in we had the problem of where to put the clothes. I guess I should say I had the problem. I started hanging shirts up wherever there was room and made sure they were either hanging over a register or I had a fan running in the bathroom that I put quite a few items in front of. Ball shorts and socks were hung over the edge of our laundry baskets and a fan was put in front of them as well.
We had to leave to go to Steven's birthday/welcome home party but when we got home most of our clothes were dry thank goodness. There were just a few shirts that had some wet sleeves still from where another shirt had been hanging in front of it.
This whole post leads me to write a list of things I have learned about drying clothes on the line since we didn't do it when I was little.
1. Don't leave your laundry basket outside thinking that it will save you a trip later. Ants are climbers and will get into your basket, you will then carry them into the house and possibly onto your bed.
2. You will need more clothespins then you will ever think.
3. Don't hang t-shirts by the sleeves, they don't dry as well if you would just hang them from the bottom.
4. Get something to hang on your line to keep your clothespins in. It becomes a pain to bend down to get them out of a container of the ground.
5. Don't keep the clothes up too long into the night or the dew sets in and you are back to having wet clothes.
I know most of these are common sense but they aren't things I even thought of until they happened to me!
Sunday has become laundry day at our house and since we don't have a dryer it also depends on the weather. Thankfully Sundays have been sunny and rain free...until this week. Pat and I had just had put up our 2nd load of laundry when we looked up and saw some dark clouds. I was convinced that it would just go around us but as I was doing some other stuff outside I started to realize it was not going to go around us but was going to hit us in mere seconds.
I called Pat outside and we hurried to get the clothes off the line. Looking back at it now we should have just left out the dark stuff because it was already pretty wet from just coming out of the washer but lesson learned.
Once we got the clothes in we had the problem of where to put the clothes. I guess I should say I had the problem. I started hanging shirts up wherever there was room and made sure they were either hanging over a register or I had a fan running in the bathroom that I put quite a few items in front of. Ball shorts and socks were hung over the edge of our laundry baskets and a fan was put in front of them as well.
We had to leave to go to Steven's birthday/welcome home party but when we got home most of our clothes were dry thank goodness. There were just a few shirts that had some wet sleeves still from where another shirt had been hanging in front of it.
This whole post leads me to write a list of things I have learned about drying clothes on the line since we didn't do it when I was little.
1. Don't leave your laundry basket outside thinking that it will save you a trip later. Ants are climbers and will get into your basket, you will then carry them into the house and possibly onto your bed.
2. You will need more clothespins then you will ever think.
3. Don't hang t-shirts by the sleeves, they don't dry as well if you would just hang them from the bottom.
4. Get something to hang on your line to keep your clothespins in. It becomes a pain to bend down to get them out of a container of the ground.
5. Don't keep the clothes up too long into the night or the dew sets in and you are back to having wet clothes.
I know most of these are common sense but they aren't things I even thought of until they happened to me!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
A Little Behind the Times
So I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird. I never really thought it was a book I needed to read and none of my teachers had it as required reading. Well in pursuit of trying to be as organized as possible for my first year (for me this means know what I am going to do a week in advance!) I am trying to get my lessons semi-laid out for at least the first month of school. Right now I am working on my Honors 10 class because I am the most excited about their unit right now. The theme of the unit is "Heroes." I think so many times in our society that kids are let down by their heroes, ex. Mark McGuire and Tiger Woods. I know that it is not "fair" to put all the pressure on these guys to act perfect but come on act responsible and don't break the laws. ANYWAYS.... I have some great ideas I am pretty pumped about including the kids designing a page for their hero at the Hero Project website. So on to the point..I have been looking for a novel to go along with my hero unit and was looking down the list of book sets that our school has (which is rather limited and maybe a little outdated) I went to the library and checked out some of the books on the list and did some investigating on some of my teacher websites and found To Kill a Mockingbird was one that may fit well so I started reading.
I just finished up a little bit ago and I must say I enjoyed it. I did find my mind wondering and then would have to go back and re-read some parts. I'm not sure if it was because I was in a gym of volleyball players or what but I had a hard time concentrating today. Other times I contribute it to the fact that I was trying to think of how to incorporate the book into the unit and also what I needed to take out of the book to highlight to the students. Overall I think it will fit well and with Honors kids I am interested to see what their take on it is! Well that is all for now hopefully there will be an update on this in a couple months!
I just finished up a little bit ago and I must say I enjoyed it. I did find my mind wondering and then would have to go back and re-read some parts. I'm not sure if it was because I was in a gym of volleyball players or what but I had a hard time concentrating today. Other times I contribute it to the fact that I was trying to think of how to incorporate the book into the unit and also what I needed to take out of the book to highlight to the students. Overall I think it will fit well and with Honors kids I am interested to see what their take on it is! Well that is all for now hopefully there will be an update on this in a couple months!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
I should be...
getting ready for work. I am supposed to be there at 11:30 and it is now 10:45 meaning I need to leave in about 15 minutes. My hair is still wet and I need to brush my teeth. I can just not get motivated to get ready! I am really starting to think that I need to put in my 2 weeks notice. I was just writing my July schedule on my dry-erase calendar and just realized how much I have going on with just volleyball. On top of that I really need to start getting my lessons ready for school. I have started thinking of ideas but I really need to sit down and get them planned out in writing and in a little bit more detail. Waitressing just isn't making enough money for me to justify staying there when I'm not even enjoying it that much. 5 summers is enough for me I think.
I will hopefully be posting soon with some stuff about the wedding and honeymoon but I don't have time right now. If you would like to see pictures go to http://s956.photobucket.com/home/lappsnyder/index and we have uploaded quite a few as well as some other people!
I will hopefully be posting soon with some stuff about the wedding and honeymoon but I don't have time right now. If you would like to see pictures go to http://s956.photobucket.com/home/lappsnyder/index and we have uploaded quite a few as well as some other people!
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