Amber said I have to Update...

I haven't updated in a while, but Amber says I have to, and well, you never get on the bad side of your ticket into PC ;)

Nothing incredibly new here to report, well, maybe a little...

Since my last post, Tom and I celebrated 23 years of wedded bliss. Well, maybe 22 1/2 years of bliss, and 1/2 year of grrrr (if you add all the grrr up all together). We really don't fight, we get ticked, but usually it's over in a few hours, and very rarely, a few days.

23 years ago, we realized that in marriage, there is compromise, and sometimes there is no compromising. We each had our own interests when we met 28 YEARS AGO, and we agreed that we would keep those interests. We each had our own friends, and we agreed that we would keep those friends. I go places without him, he goes places without me. We have always been free to live our own lives, and at the end of the day, remember where we belong.

Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I had forgotten about those friends I had before we met. If I moved on to new friends, and left the old behind. I'm glad I didn't. These ladies are the ones who know me best, and even when the big picture of life gets in the way, I know I can count on them.

Kate is home for good (for awhile). She has decided to take her career path in another direction. She just hasn't completely figured out what direction that is. She is going to go to the local community college in the fall. I explained to her that it's ok to be 19 and not know what you want to do. And I also explained that she could go to the local school for 8 years and take a bunch of stuff for what I was paying for one year at Bentley.

She registered late, so that most of the good courses were full. Good is relative though, and I have to remember I'm looking at it from a parent's point of view. So she is taking Anatomy & Physiology 1, Chemistry 1, TV production, Stage makeup and 3 - 1/2 credit gym classes (Jazz, Ballet and Ballroom)

She also would like to do the Disney College program in the spring, so this semester is sort of like a refresher course before the presentation and audition dates come out.

She made Dean's list for her second semester at Bentley, showing me and everyone else that the first semester was just an adjustment issue. I don't think she knows how really proud of her I am.

Oh yeah, and as of today, she and the butthead have been broken up for a week and a half. They still talk every day.

Maggie is headed to almost Rhode Island next week for a week of Lacrosse goalie camp.

Now, if I were picking a summer camp, I doubt it would be one where they were hurling hard rubber balls at me in speeds exceeding 50 MPH, but well, Maggie has always been a little different.

TJ has made the 12 yo all-star team although his age is actually LL 11. He is the sub guy, meaning he will be the one that plays 3 outs and 1 at bat. He knows his job is to be there if someone gets hurt or doesn't show up. And he is ok with that. He'll be back next year.

And that is about it.

Nothing new. Nothing Exciting.

But I have done my job of keeping you informed.