wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 9 and 10

I am sure that you can tell life has really picked up around here. I missed my first wogoman weekly in 3 years! I know you were completely upset. :) School has picked up for me in a HUGE way. I am teaching a class that I have never taught before with NO resources at all. That means, learn your material quick, try to make a lesson plan, and start changing it before you get to the next class. It is my first year all over again. Except now I have a daughter who needs me and that therefore pulls me away from all the time my class needs. So I am keeping my head above water and letting the little things slide that aren't as important.

The day before school started I got my first call from Daycare. The message went like this," Hi this is Ms. Barbara from Little Saints, we don't want to alarm you but Tenille put a rock up her nose. Now we couldn't get it out but she did and so we thought we would just let you know." WHAT! Apparently our little girl stuck a pea gravel size rock up her nose. Nice. Heather looked at it and didn't see anymore so I think we are safe.

I have attached a picture of J's wheel from the truck in the woods incident two weeks ago. I heard from some of you that you were disappointed that I didn't send one. I also discovered that Tenille took a video of us washing the truck. It is just long enough to hear J say, " I don't really think that was a good idea." Kinda funny now because nothing and no one got hurt.

Tenille went to the circus for the first time Saturday. She loved it. She clapped for everything those people did. If you ask her about it she says there were tigers and camels there. After the elephants came out she kept asking me if I could bring them back out. Poor girl, she doesn't know mommy has no pull in that department. But if you want to rent a calcultor from Northridge, I'm your girl. :)

This week will be J and I's 10th anniversary. Where did all that time go? So fun! So what are we doing? Tenille is spending the night at my parents and we are going to try and cut into the woods and free up our apple trees. Yes, we have 6 or so. But you can only find one. I am so excited to see if we can grow fruit next year!

Tenille went to her first overnight Saturday. J and I went to a Red Cross Truth in Jazz wine tasting at Elcona. Someone donated a table for local firemen and J was picked from Elkhart City to go. How cool was that? We had a great time and Tenille spent the night with Aunt Heather, Brie, Luke, and Alec. She had a great time and Heather gets some atta girls for doing it! :)

The picture of J and T on the porch is them looking for deer. They were so cute sitting out there! Well that is about it. I am sure I missed tons of stuff but that is what I can recall now. I have half and hour to bed and I got a little bit of reading to do. Oh where oh where did the days of summer lesuire go?

wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 8

It is that time my friends. School will be back in session and it is time to turn my attention to moulding young minds, or at least trying to push them into the right direction. :)

Tenille started back full time to daycare Monday. So nice for a constant routine for her. She likes all of her friends so much she asks for them everyday she is not there. She got another tooth Saturday. Yippy, only two more to go. The top two year molars are now breaking through and we just have to wait on the bottom ones. She has been so nice lately!

The dozer saved the day again. Long story short, J got his truck stuck in about 2.5 feet of mud at the bottom of the hill. I knew it was bad when I saw him trying to back the trailer around down at the bottom of the hill, I knew I should start praying when I heard the dozer fire up. Then I really hit the hail marys when I saw the dozer pushing the truck out of the mud. Finally it was free but he had to get it up the hill. He blazed a new path and gunned it. The last thing I saw was the truck leaning WAY over to the side. More praying and I walked away from the window. I kept working on making dinner and then I heard a great sound, the water pump kicking on. Why is this exciting? Because it meant that J was washing his truck off. He then came in and asked if I wanted to see the truck. Had I known it would all have turned out all right I would have taken more pictures but I thought if this goes badly, we won't want to be reminded of it.

I've attached photos of the clearing that J did with the dozer and also one of Tenille giving J a horse ride. So funny. Hope your weekend is great!

wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 7

Offically I hate yahoo. I typed this message once and the stupid thing erased it! AHHHH! Jason made it home safe and sound from Maryland. He said he had a great time and learned so much out there. He did have a hard time getting back with planes delayed and then not having a crew to fly the plane. When they got into the plane the guy made it from Chicago to South Bend in 17 minutes. Now that is a way to travel! Tenille ran to him and that airport and people stopped to see who she was so excited about. School is around the corner and I am not sure I am ready to be back but I don't really have a choice do I? The routine will be nice but the beating my head agaisnt the wall won't. Tenille officaly moved into a big girl bed. I took the side down while Jason was gone. She has been doing pretty well with it and slept all night last night. Yippy! Tenille got her first haircut outside and was bribed with fruit snacks to stay still. She loved that the birdies were going to use her hair for nests. Such a mamma's girl. It is awesome that Nikki would make a house visit. Tenille is also super smart. She has figured out on my phone how to text daddy and send him heart pictures. She also sends lots of giberish but we think that just means I miss you. J and I have a blackberry messanger so she can send to her hearts content only to daddy. :) Don't forget the Middlebury "trade" festival is this weekend. Come and see what it is all about. So I thought I would end with a top ten list of the week (what top 10 things are you most thankful/happy about?) 10. The tree that fell in the storm last week while J was gone didn't hit a building! 9. I saved a jumping mouse from our pool all by myself. 8. Tenille is finally getting her last molars in! 7.Our little girl likes her big girl bed. 6. Boot camp is going well, and my arms look awesome! 5. I canned pickels with the help of my sister in law and mother. 4.Tenille loves her blankets and baby elmo and they ease all ouchies. 3.We got lattice up last night to keep the dogs out of the hole under the porch. 2. I figured what was wrong with my car all my by myself. (Blown fuse) and drum rolls please . . . The number one reason I am happy: 1. Our family is back together now because Jason is home. Have a great week! Love Tracy

wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 6

I thought when I sent out my last email on Friday and I couldn't possibly have new stuff to tell you by Tuesday already, ahhhh but I do! Tenille, my mom, and I all dropped J off at the airport for his flight to Maryland. He is out there at the National Fire Academy learning about incident command. He seems to be having a great time and learning a lot. He comes back on Saturday. After we dropped him off we headed for the big windy city. Chicago was not at all windy while we were there! My sister Cari met us up there and we had an awesome visit. Mark lives in Wriggleyville. So we saw all those sights and enjoyed a children's street festival and played at two parks all on the first day. The next day we went to Navy Pier and Millennium park. Tenille loves this trip because it all focused around things she could do. She got to play in water fountains everyday. (Who needs a pool when you can run around naked outside?) So I didn't plan for the fountains buy how could you tell her no? So the first fountain on Navy pier she wore her clothes and then I went and bought her some new ones. So yes that means for a while I was pushing my naked daughter around Navy Pier looking for anything that would fit her. She ended up with a Chicago shirt that was too big so it looked like a dress. We did have a causality, I lost her original shirt while we were walking on the pier. Oops! When we got the second park I just stripped her down to her diaper and let her run. I always wondered how naked kids came to be. Now I know! Monday we went to the Lincoln Park Zoo. It was FREE! We even found a parking spot (FREE) and brought our lunch and then went to a conservatory (FREE) and then traveled home. So we had a great day looking at the polar bear (her favorite), the seal lions, the lions, and the giraffe. Everything at this zoo was down on Tenille's level. She LOVED being so close to so much. She did cry hysterically when we didn't see any dinosaurs. Don't tell her there aren't any. She doesn't like to hear that. :) So today I am playing catch up with the laundry and enjoying some fresh brewed tea. Oh yes, this little house on the prairie girl, grew her own mint (3 kinds) and made my own tea! I even bought a stevia plant from my Uncle jack at his store in Bristol and sweetened it naturally. So yummo to me! On that note also, I frozen 3 dozen ears of corn. I had Tenille "guard the corn" while I went in to get another bowl, only to come back out and find she was happily eating an ear. She ending up eating two whole ears before I was done. Hey it was good corn! She may have gotten a little messy but who doesn't when they eat corn? Enjoy your week. School will be here before I know it so officially I am taking it easy today! Have a great day! Oh, I almost forgot, we got to see them fliming transformers 3 in chicago. So cool. We got to see optimus prime but he was taking a nap. :)