The kids wrote Daniel little love notes, gave him a single yellow rose and went out to eat hamburgers.
To all of you in our lives, you are in our hearts...we hope your day was filled with love and happiness!! Thank you for all that you are.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
The kids wrote Daniel little love notes, gave him a single yellow rose and went out to eat hamburgers.
To all of you in our lives, you are in our hearts...we hope your day was filled with love and happiness!! Thank you for all that you are.
The kids wrote Daniel little love notes, gave him a single yellow rose and went out to eat hamburgers.
To all of you in our lives, you are in our hearts...we hope your day was filled with love and happiness!! Thank you for all that you are.
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Icy bells.....
Jingle Bells, Patricia yells
the Volvo wants to slide
she pumped her brakes, and turned the wheel
but all they did was glide..
Jingle Bells, all is well
the family's home and safe
Patricia gripped the wheel so hard
her hands are chapped and chafe
Lots of snow, freezing rain and ice on the road. Driving conditions were awful and Patricia couldn't park the car near the house. She and the kids had to park elsewhere after sliding backwards down a hill (unable to stop the car when brakes were applied) and she walked the kids home while Dakota walked Jewel home. She was able to drive to the train station to pick Daniel up. The six minute trip took 35 minutes, each way.
Stake Presidency meetings cancelled tonight!
gratitude thought: so very grateful that after sliding so much, I never hit a car. Came close twice. Once when I was inches from rear ending someone. The other when the car skidded sideways into a parked car, and we squeaked by missing by a hair.
trivia: Dakota is sad to lose his Physics teacher for the sememster due to illness. He has a new teacher and thinks she is extremely boring. He knows he has to stay in the class to graduate so he has to just grin and bare it.
Dinner with 14 year old Rutgers student and Dakota cancelled due to weather.
the Volvo wants to slide
she pumped her brakes, and turned the wheel
but all they did was glide..
Jingle Bells, all is well
the family's home and safe
Patricia gripped the wheel so hard
her hands are chapped and chafe
Lots of snow, freezing rain and ice on the road. Driving conditions were awful and Patricia couldn't park the car near the house. She and the kids had to park elsewhere after sliding backwards down a hill (unable to stop the car when brakes were applied) and she walked the kids home while Dakota walked Jewel home. She was able to drive to the train station to pick Daniel up. The six minute trip took 35 minutes, each way.
Stake Presidency meetings cancelled tonight!
gratitude thought: so very grateful that after sliding so much, I never hit a car. Came close twice. Once when I was inches from rear ending someone. The other when the car skidded sideways into a parked car, and we squeaked by missing by a hair.
trivia: Dakota is sad to lose his Physics teacher for the sememster due to illness. He has a new teacher and thinks she is extremely boring. He knows he has to stay in the class to graduate so he has to just grin and bare it.
Dinner with 14 year old Rutgers student and Dakota cancelled due to weather.
Baby it's cold outside..brrr
Cold temps in NY/NJ continue. The windchill on Monday was -7 and today it is 10 degrees. There is snow coming too, not much but a nice sprinkling.
Monday, the kids had regular days in school and Daniel had a pretty normal workday. Dakota is glad that his dad is home as they can ride to early morning Seminary at 5:30 am.
Patricia went to help her friend Kaye get bills in order to help her qualify for Medicaid. Her doctor found small growths in her left lung and she will go for a biopsy on Wednesday. She had treatment for lung cancer two years ago.
Patricia has her small jobs this week and is making frantic phone calls to NYC to find service opportunities for the upcoming Stake Youth Conference in June. Turns out that NYC is a difficult place to volunteer. Insurance and Unions are big in the city. Also as the Manhattan ward building will be under contruction, the youth now have no place to use classrooms for lessons. The city is very expensive to rent rooms and even if the church paid for the classrooms, religious instruction is forbidden in many public places in NYC.
Daniel has Stake presidency meetings tonight and Patricia and the kids will eat out (a rare occurance, especially during the week). Dakota is going to meet another 14 year old who began at Rutgers this year. He is a first year student doing research on stem cells. Hopefully the two can become friends and if Dakota can get into Rutgers, it'll be great to have a same age peer.
gratitude: I'm grateful for friends. My friend Nina called for my birthday and after playing phone tag, we finally got a chance to talk. I met her when I was 16 years old training at the Alvin Ailey school. She is a piano prodigy and an excellent ballet dancer from London and Montreal (duel citizenship). There are no words to describe reconnecting with my friend and talking about the past dance life we shared. So many memories, such glorious, fulfilling and fun times in both our lives. It is way cool to have enjoyed her friendship these past 33 years. We both miss those days.....miss dancing.....miss that life....
trivia: Black History month continues...grateful for the contributions Black Americans made to the USA. While helping my friend Kaye, we listened to an R&B station featuring black musical artists. I was blown away listening song after song. what enormous talent in the music industry.
Who would have ever thought a Black man would be running for President and doing so well?? My ancestors must be grinning from ear to ear.
Monday, the kids had regular days in school and Daniel had a pretty normal workday. Dakota is glad that his dad is home as they can ride to early morning Seminary at 5:30 am.
Patricia went to help her friend Kaye get bills in order to help her qualify for Medicaid. Her doctor found small growths in her left lung and she will go for a biopsy on Wednesday. She had treatment for lung cancer two years ago.
Patricia has her small jobs this week and is making frantic phone calls to NYC to find service opportunities for the upcoming Stake Youth Conference in June. Turns out that NYC is a difficult place to volunteer. Insurance and Unions are big in the city. Also as the Manhattan ward building will be under contruction, the youth now have no place to use classrooms for lessons. The city is very expensive to rent rooms and even if the church paid for the classrooms, religious instruction is forbidden in many public places in NYC.
Daniel has Stake presidency meetings tonight and Patricia and the kids will eat out (a rare occurance, especially during the week). Dakota is going to meet another 14 year old who began at Rutgers this year. He is a first year student doing research on stem cells. Hopefully the two can become friends and if Dakota can get into Rutgers, it'll be great to have a same age peer.
gratitude: I'm grateful for friends. My friend Nina called for my birthday and after playing phone tag, we finally got a chance to talk. I met her when I was 16 years old training at the Alvin Ailey school. She is a piano prodigy and an excellent ballet dancer from London and Montreal (duel citizenship). There are no words to describe reconnecting with my friend and talking about the past dance life we shared. So many memories, such glorious, fulfilling and fun times in both our lives. It is way cool to have enjoyed her friendship these past 33 years. We both miss those days.....miss dancing.....miss that life....
trivia: Black History month continues...grateful for the contributions Black Americans made to the USA. While helping my friend Kaye, we listened to an R&B station featuring black musical artists. I was blown away listening song after song. what enormous talent in the music industry.
Who would have ever thought a Black man would be running for President and doing so well?? My ancestors must be grinning from ear to ear.
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Blustery winds in NJ, Wind chill is 1 degree at 10 pm
Busy, busy weekend. Daniel arrived home from SF on Friday night, Jewel was counting the hours. Pat did not get to see him at all as she was driving into a pretty secluded area for her Stake LITE retreat with the YW. She spent the night with 30 YW and a few leaders. Lots of fun and little sleep.
Saturday morning, Dakota had an all day Scout Merit badge clinic. Jewel had daddy all to herself and was very content to stay in all day and play games with dad. Pat returned home to cook for the RS dinner exchange. She made 'smothered pork chops in gravy' for four families which Daniel delivered to our ward. Pat was quite tired and completely forgot the Leadership Broadcast that evening. Oops! We'll download it off the Internet as we heard it was pretty amazing.
Sunday, Pat drove to Eatontown, NJ for two ward conferences back to back. Daniel, Jewel and Dakota drove to our regular ward.
trivia: baseball pitcher (and possible Hall of Famer) Roger Clemens, is all over the newspapers for his alledged use of steroids. He denies ever taking them.
gratitude thought: The Eatontwon ward made lunch for the Stake leaders as they had to stay in the building six hours, and some of them for eight hours. I was soo hungry and it was wonderful to begin the next meetings with a full tummy! I was very grateful for their graciousness, and that I didn't have to eat the mashed up peanut butter and banana sandwich that I brought from home.
Saturday morning, Dakota had an all day Scout Merit badge clinic. Jewel had daddy all to herself and was very content to stay in all day and play games with dad. Pat returned home to cook for the RS dinner exchange. She made 'smothered pork chops in gravy' for four families which Daniel delivered to our ward. Pat was quite tired and completely forgot the Leadership Broadcast that evening. Oops! We'll download it off the Internet as we heard it was pretty amazing.
Sunday, Pat drove to Eatontown, NJ for two ward conferences back to back. Daniel, Jewel and Dakota drove to our regular ward.
trivia: baseball pitcher (and possible Hall of Famer) Roger Clemens, is all over the newspapers for his alledged use of steroids. He denies ever taking them.
gratitude thought: The Eatontwon ward made lunch for the Stake leaders as they had to stay in the building six hours, and some of them for eight hours. I was soo hungry and it was wonderful to begin the next meetings with a full tummy! I was very grateful for their graciousness, and that I didn't have to eat the mashed up peanut butter and banana sandwich that I brought from home.
Thursday, 7 February 2008
Videos!
NJ High School Diploma
Jewel performing in a school play!
The days have just flown by while Daniel has been out of town. Between school, Mutual, ballet (Jewel) and piano (Dakota), the car continues to guzzle gas.
Highlights of the week, Jewel performed with her school in a Native American play. This is the first time we have tried to add video to the blog. Jewel is on the right with little pigtails.
Dakota finally received his high school diploma from the state of NJ. He is very, very happy! His two year college degree will come in three months.
Daniel's presentations at work went well and he is coming home on Friday night. Patricia will be staying overnight with the Stake YW for a LITE retreat. She has to give her first devotional and is very nervous.
gratitude thought: EFY registration made possible by Mable and Oma and Opa's generous birthday gifts to me. Thank you so much for helping us make this possible for him.
trivia! Cousin Linda in South Carolina will be getting married on August 16th!
Jewel performing in a school play!
The days have just flown by while Daniel has been out of town. Between school, Mutual, ballet (Jewel) and piano (Dakota), the car continues to guzzle gas.
Highlights of the week, Jewel performed with her school in a Native American play. This is the first time we have tried to add video to the blog. Jewel is on the right with little pigtails.
Dakota finally received his high school diploma from the state of NJ. He is very, very happy! His two year college degree will come in three months.
Daniel's presentations at work went well and he is coming home on Friday night. Patricia will be staying overnight with the Stake YW for a LITE retreat. She has to give her first devotional and is very nervous.
gratitude thought: EFY registration made possible by Mable and Oma and Opa's generous birthday gifts to me. Thank you so much for helping us make this possible for him.
trivia! Cousin Linda in South Carolina will be getting married on August 16th!
Monday, 4 February 2008
Danny Boy goes West
Daniel left this morning at 4:45 am, as Patricia drove him to the train to travel to Newark International Airport. Daniel didn't rest much as the passenger in front of him snored for the entire five hour flight to San Franscico.
Jewel was home today as she still had a low grade fever. She worked on her research project, Titanic and will write about all the things that went wrong, caused the ship to sink and why so many passengers died. She may draw the ship in oil pastel. Dakota's Physics class was cancelled this morning so he only had his Political Science class. The class assignments are to watch the Presidential debates and follow the elections, which he really enjoys.
Patricia is walking very slowly today as she enters week four of her training with coach Dakota. She did more today and really feels it.....instead of cooking tonight, (as standing is painful for Patricia and she thinks her heart fell out and is sitting in the treadmill) the family will have sandwiches and for FHE watch part of 'Work And The Glory'.
trivia: Go Giants!! They beat the undefeated New England Patriots in a 17-14 thriller. When the Giants scored the winning touchdown with 38 seconds to go, I was on the floor. To be 18-0 and lose the only game of your season, THE Super Bowl has to be rough.
gratitude: grateful that I am not the wife of a New England Patriot player. Putting those men back together will take all year long. That Super Bowl loss was a big ouch!
grateful for a birthday package that arrived from Oma, Opa and Greg in the mail today. Jewel was home to open it and we just loved our gifts. New clothes for me is always a treat..and we love our books and chocolate as well.
News: Our new Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints, is President Thomas S. Monson, 1st counselor is President Henry B. Erying and 2nd counselor is President Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
Jewel was home today as she still had a low grade fever. She worked on her research project, Titanic and will write about all the things that went wrong, caused the ship to sink and why so many passengers died. She may draw the ship in oil pastel. Dakota's Physics class was cancelled this morning so he only had his Political Science class. The class assignments are to watch the Presidential debates and follow the elections, which he really enjoys.
Patricia is walking very slowly today as she enters week four of her training with coach Dakota. She did more today and really feels it.....instead of cooking tonight, (as standing is painful for Patricia and she thinks her heart fell out and is sitting in the treadmill) the family will have sandwiches and for FHE watch part of 'Work And The Glory'.
trivia: Go Giants!! They beat the undefeated New England Patriots in a 17-14 thriller. When the Giants scored the winning touchdown with 38 seconds to go, I was on the floor. To be 18-0 and lose the only game of your season, THE Super Bowl has to be rough.
gratitude: grateful that I am not the wife of a New England Patriot player. Putting those men back together will take all year long. That Super Bowl loss was a big ouch!
grateful for a birthday package that arrived from Oma, Opa and Greg in the mail today. Jewel was home to open it and we just loved our gifts. New clothes for me is always a treat..and we love our books and chocolate as well.
News: Our new Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints, is President Thomas S. Monson, 1st counselor is President Henry B. Erying and 2nd counselor is President Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
Saturday, 2 February 2008
Birthday celebrations January 30th-February 2nd
Patricia wearing her Christmas outfit,for birthday dinner at the Olive Garden.....hungry folks
Menu at the Olive Garden
Jewel- Speghetti
Dakota- Herbed Salmon
Daniel- Tortilloni and beef ribs
Patricia- Seafood Alfredo
Wednesday January 30th was Patricia's 49th birthday. The day was spent running errands driving the family around. She received some flowers and dinner from ward members and phone calls from the young women and Oma,Kevin,Diane, Kaye and Mable. When Dakota was at Mutual, a kind friend 'Starr Turner' babysat Jewel so Daniel and Patricia could have a free hour together. These moments are so rare that after dinner (at home) they just sat and stared at each other!!!
gratitiude thought: As I reach the last year in my fourth decade, I am and will always be grateful for the family I have been blessed with and kind and loving friends:
Oma, Opa & Greg, always loving, supportive and generous through all our hard times.
Linda, Andrea for thinking of us with cards, clothing, kind words, & support
Camille, Leslie for their examples of being sweet and their hearts always open
Shelly, Bruce for the impact of their parenting and giving us such lovely cousins
My sisters, Diane and Kathy who always have loving words for Dakota and Jewel
My brother Kevin, with a heart of gold and for being a lovely man
My mom Mable, who is a best friend!
My dear Jewel whose temperment and spirit match her name, Dakota whose zest and apppetite for life and how fully he lives it is contagious and Daniel whose depth as a man and wisdom makes me stretch everyday.
For friends I have met over the years in the many states that have created many wonderful memories.......
Friday, Patricia had a birthday lunch with some church members at 'Panera Bread' on a rain soaked Friday, and Saturday the family listened to the funeral broadcast of Gordon B Hinkley.
After church on Sunday...Daniel began packing for his week long trip to California.
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