A Little Ramble on a Sunday

The past week went by in rather a blur.  The kids were out of school on Monday for President's Day, then they had a half-day on Wednesday because of the ice storm coming into the area, and snow days on Thursday and Friday.  Do you know how hard it is to settle your home-schooled daughter down to doing school work when her friends and her big brother have a snow day?  It's virtually impossible. 

Wednesday night I went with Thomas to a company dinner to honor the employees who had perfect attendance this year.  Thomas was one of the honorees.   I am very proud of him.  There were 33 this year with perfect attendance, out of around 700 employees.  One gentleman had had perfect attendance for 16 years! 

It was nice to dress up and go out with Thomas to an adult-only function.  The place they rented was really lovely, one I'd never been to before.  The food was pretty good.  They gave away prizes to all the honorees, and these prizes varied from $500-, $200-, $50- and $25-gift certificates, on down to items like DVD players, fishing poles, binoculars, thermoses, etc.  There were three one-year parking spaces given away -- you can pick your spot at any of the company's parking lots and they'll put your name on it for a year.  Then there was one grand prize -- a 42" TV.  Thomas won one of the parking spaces!  He was okay with it, but if they'd drawn his name one time sooner he'd have gotten the ocean fishing pole, and if they'd drawn his name one time later he'd have gotten one of the $500.00 gift certificates.  Oh well!  We had a lot of fun.  He'll make the most of the parking space, though, and has picked one out that puts him quite a bit closer to the area where he works.

I have caught up on reading a lot of journals this weekend, but not all of them.  I'll try to catch up a little more this evening.  The kids went to a party last night -- a get-together for kids of various ages and their parents.  They had a good time.  Today Eler Beth is playing at her cousins' house and Andrew is getting ready to go to dodge ball.  Then he's spending the night at Jason's.  They had had plans to go to Nashville, where Jason's girlfriend lives, but those plans changed. 

I need to get Eler Beth's lessons together for this week.  I think we have a bit more snow coming on Tuesday, but I'm hoping we're done with the ice and bad roads for the season.  I'm now ready for Spring.  Now that I've had my "pretty" snow I will now start complaining about wanting planting weather.  Just can't be happy, can I?

So, as you can see, nothing too awesome going on here.  I feel like I've been rather dull lately with nothing too interesting or funny to write about.  I'll try to make up for it soon, though!  I hope everyone is having a good weekend and that those who have been ill are feeling much better.