wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 32

Another week and so much and so little happens. Our nightly routine is the same and comforting for Tenille but she still won't sleep all night. She goes to sleep now in like 5 minutes but ugh wakes at like 10:30 and 1:30am and by then I am too tired to fight with her. This girl is exhausting! I laid on her floor last night dreaming of summer when I am sure I can take a nap. Naps are not possible when I am teaching. I guess that is a good thing. :) I had many great accomplishments this week. First, I held a plank for 3 minutes. Whoooo Hooo! That means I held my body off the floor with only my arms and toes. By the end of the third minute my whole body was shaking. You may ask yourself, why would anyone do this? Well a challenge was posed and who doesn't like a good challenge? Second I got blood work done(you know the yearly kind you are supposed to do but ahem, it has been 3 years). Everything looks good. I do have low cholesterol, both good and bad. All research I can find says that it is OK and I need to eat more fish and good fats. Huh, who would a thought? Now, all you doctors, nurses, and medical people out there if I am wrong and low levels of good cholesterol are going to kill me . .. TELL ME! We picked on the liner for our pool this week. They think they are going to start on the pool part April 1. Yippy! We are going to have to redo some of the concrete and take off some of our porch. This makes me nervous because we really aren't sure what is under our porch. Guess we will find out and see! We are going with a salt pool instead of a chlorine pool. Wish us luck. My stomach growled the other morning while Tenille was trying to pee and she looked at me and asked "what was that?" I said my stomach and she said, "Oh you have a kitty in there" and mommy "we don't have kitties at our house any more." So random and so cute. She also told me that when she grows up she wants to be a little unicorn and when I grow up I get to be a big unicorn. What will she think of next? She did get to make cookies and a snowman all in the same day on Sunday. The trick with her and the snow is to bundle her up and get her outside. She gets half way done and has a melt down. Then she screams until you get her outside. Awesome. Today it went very well though. She gave her snowman things that everyone should have, feet, knees and cheeks. How cute is that? And as the math teacher in me must remind you . . we are 1/12 through the year this week. How crazy is that? And another just because I can(hey my students aren't getting to hear my jokes because of the student teacher so you are my new audience) . .. Where did the lone ranger take his trash? to the dump to the dump to the dump dump dump (you know the lone ranger song. . . OK maybe that one is better in person, you can thank Prairie Home Companion for that one) Have a great week!

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The sun is shining for the first time . . maybe this year and all is good in the world! At least it is here in the wogoman household. Ok so the bears are losing right now but the game isn't over yet! The windows and doors look AWESOME and there wasn't fog and condensation on them this week when we woke up so yes, they are keeping the cold out and the heat in. :) Unfortunately one of the doors was scratched while putting it in so they have to make a new one and replace the glass. I was the first one to find it because it is perfectly at my height. Ugh. But other than that they are beautiful. Now off to get the pool fixed. :) We meet with the guy to pick out the liner this week. We want to break ground or should I say fix our ground as soon as we can this spring. We had the truck crew over last night for a Christmas thank you dinner. It was nice to see everyone together. But a roomful of 6 poker playing firemen can get kinda loud so the women hung out by the fire instead. It is weird, of the 6 guys 3 are married to teachers and another one is married to a librarian. Guess our guys just know how to pick em! Tenille is getting more of a personality everyday. She "moved up" a few times this week to the 3-4 year old class. She brought home a worksheet all colored in and she was so proud. As for me, I am finding having a student teacher to be a weird place to be. I'm still in the room, I'm still helping but I am teaching only half as much. All my kids think I have nothing to do now, which I then laugh and say, " no now I have to teach him how to teach" so still teaching but teaching different stuff. Tenille and J spent most of today eating popcorn and oranges out of a fort they built in the basement. Tell me isn't that picture one of the most precious things you have seen? Ok maybe I am biased but they are so stinkin cute! Of course we have two fires going today. Our furnace hasn't kicked on once. Gotta love all that wood we chopped. Well I think that is about it. Enjoy that sunshine if you have it. What an awesome taste of spring! Tenille took the picture of sasha for you all. Sasha wasn't really impressed much.

wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 30

Good Raining/Sleeting Morning Everyone.

There were two accidents on our road this morning. One was so bad that I didn't even notice the SUV in the woods until I drove past the second time and saw the reflection of my lights on the license plate. The driver was out walking around already and said she was fine. The ambulance was already there but at the other car. Nope no need for a two hour delay this morning. Ahh that sarcasm of mine.

Tenille and I hung out yesterday instead of her going to daycare. At the end of the day she hugged me and said, "I had a good day with you mommy" ahhh melt my heart.

The window guys were at our house for the third day yesterday. When the temp of the house got to be 54 degrees we packed it up and went to the fire station to see daddy. That is too cold in our house. I am sending the picture of why our house was so cold. Yep, that is a 8 foot 4inch hole in our house.

We had daycare duty at church Sunday. Our classroom didn't have anyone but Tenille so we got to leave early. The fishing boat picture came from there. Then it was off to my parents for my dad's birthday party. We celebrated his big day and Cari's birthday that was also this past week. Tenille LOVED helping everyone open their presents.

I got all my midterms graded and I am sure my brain turned to mush in the process. Ugh. For the days of scantron. Oh know we do everything long hand in the math department. We do that because the state tests our students that way but ugh to grade it all is miserable.
Well I think that is about it. Hopefully they will be done with the doors and windows today.

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Howdy everyone! I can't believe I am actually getting this out on Monday! Sunday even! I can't believe I did it but I forgot to mention that we went and saw Elmo at the Morris over break. Tenille loved it. It did run a little long for her but is liked it so much that she still talks about it. :) We have a very busy, very stressful, week at our house but we are now on the other side of it! Yippy for that. Tenille is "a little sick" right now. She ran a fever over the weekend and just wanted to snuggle. But hey who wouldn't want to snuggle when it snowed a bunch? The snow here is awesome and I hope we get more. J had to plow 3 times yesterday. We then had dinner with Jeff and J's mom. She is up here for the week checking in our her dad. He fell a little over a week ago and fractured his hip and hit is head. He has been released from the hospital and is doing therapy so he can come home. The doctors say 4 - 5 weeks. We went and say the "fire and ice" at the goshen first fridays. It was pretty "cool". I know, I know, I am so punny. We got to see the guys craving the ice and even saw a dragon that was breathing real fire. Very neat. T got to roast a marshmellow and then we went and bought groceries. It was very nice evening. T slept pretty bad that night and last night so I am running on fumes. I am not sure to then be happy it is midterm week or not. Lots of time this week of me starring at kids taking tests. Then the great joy of grading them. The nice part is we then have a three day weekend. Yippy! Tenille got glow in the dark stars for Christmas. We put them up on her ceiling. She likes them. A few won't stay up and we found them on her floor. I told her we had to wait until daddy came home to put them back up and she asked if it was because daddy was a good jumper. He had to jump a little to get them up there. I told her yes, daddy is a good jumper and that is why we have to wait. Not the truth, "your mommy is really short and she can't even jump up there near the ceiling." Well I think that is it. The guys are coming to put in doors and windows this week. :) I'll be sure to take pictures.

wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 28

Happy New Year!

Where did the week go?

We rung in the new years with Jason working and Tenille and I at Jeff and Heather's with some friends for fondue. Yes, Tenille, the child that never sleeps, made it to midnight and then cried when we had to leave. Uh the child! I told Brie that when Tenille is older she could spend the night at our house and then could stay up again. Brie's question, "ummmm where will I sleep?" Gotta love kids they are so straight forward thinking.

After this wonderful month I thought I should tell you all about boss of the month. I can tell you because I am boss of the month at our house and that means I get to call the shots (really it is just a bragging right but I haven't been boss of the month in . . . 4 months!) Ugh that is hard to write. What is boss of the month you may ask? Well on the first of every month, the person who flips over the calendar to the next month wins the title of boss of the month. Now of course there are rules. You can't flip it the night before the date, but any time after midnight is fair game if you have to get up for the dogs or Tenille. One night I was up with Tenille, got her back down and went to the bathroom thinking I would get the calendar next. What do I find when I was done? As snickering husband who flipped the calendar while I was in the bathroom. Ugh! If J is gone to work on the last night of the month before, I have to wait until he comes home before I flip it. So how did I beat the champion at his own game? It was New Year's Day, Tenille and J are watching cartoons while I was taking shower. During my shower I realize that I didn't flip the calendar so what do I do? You bet I throw on a towel and run out of the shower. I zip past the living room where J says, "Hey you done already?" To which I reply, "No just becoming boss of the month!" Jason was NOT happy.

Brie, Alec, and Tenille ready for a mashmellow gun fight!

Ran across an article today that you should read:
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents

It is about things that this generation that is being born right now will never know about. To prove this point let me say that Tenille can open any DVD case and put a DVD in the player. But Tenille picked out a VHS tape at the library last time. We got it home and Tenille couldn't figure out how to open it or how it went in the player. She just looked at me like . . you have to be kidding. Of course she tried to take the tape out.

Daddy and Tenille watching Elmo live!

We are getting some new windows and doors next week. Thank you mister obama. We qualify for the tax credit since we started this process last year. We are replacing the ones in the living room to something a little more effective in keeping the air out and the heat in. :) Yippy.

I am so happy to see some snow today. Where has all our snow been? This is winter right? Well I know there is more . . there always is but I forget.

Tenille and her babies, they are as follows:

Lambie, Violet, Baby Lula, Baby No Name, Baby Stella, Baby Elkhart, Tenille is playing with baby Olivia, holding Baby Lightbulb, and sitting and little baby Elmo, next is Baby Sally, Big Baby Elmo, Smelly Pig, Zoe,All of the wonder pets( Ming Ming, Linny, and Tuck) Baby Reindeer amd Baby Bunny.

They are each refered to by name. There will be a quiz at the next birthday party.

My student teacher started this week. He starts teaching in one week. It will be a nice change of pace for me. Well tonight is library night. J is working so Tenille and I have dinner and then go to the library. She plays on the computer, gets new books (we scored big last week with 3 care bear books, one Olivia book and one Cars book.) Then we do all the puzzles in the library and go check out our books. To do this you go to the nice lady (I really need to learn her name) and then she asks if Tenille would like a smelly stamp on one hand. Tenille says yes, then looks at the library with those big brown eyes, and puts her other hand up there and says, "please other hand." So cute.

Well I think that's it. Look for my next email soon. ( I mean next week is only in a couple days.)

P.S. It is fire and ice tomorrow in goshen, that has date night written all over it.

Happy New Year!

Brie and Tenille celebrating the new year!