Happy Birthday Dad Seitz! Dad Seitz enjoyed his BDay this past Sunday with dinner at Sharkeys on the pier in Venice, FL. We hope you are enjoying your extended XM radio from the Seitz kids. I know I love mine, and I am hoping to get a new car sometime with free two years worth of XM radio service. Susan and John were just down there visiting and headed back to Indiana last week. Hope you got your package Susan.
We helped Matt Wagner celebrate his Bday this weekend with dinner at our house. Tom cooked. Matt unfortunately celebrated getting older by discovering he has diabetes. He does not need insulin injections at this point, he is managed through medication. We all took turns checking our blood sugars after eating chocolate birthday cake. Too much excitement! I needed some rest time after going into work on Saturday. I missed a day last week since Scott caught a big cold and stayed home for a few days. I made up my time on Saturday-one nice thing about my kind of work. I also had to keep up my weekend schedule however which included running home to take Allison to karate in the middle of the day, and then running her and the Girl Scouts over to our local hospital to take a CPR for Teens class. Fortunately I was able to return to work and another mom picked up the girls when they were done. I was hoping the girls could take a CPR class towards their childcare badge, and it was a nice benefit for Allison since she is slowly building a babysitting service. One of my patients took her name for her daughter and son in law. Two years ago I had the girl scouts take a babysitting course, so this was Part II of the training. While I was running around on Saturday, Tom was able to get Scott to karate and then to an Easter egg hunt in the pool at the YMCA. Scott had a great time and got a few fun gifts. He loved chasing floating eggs in the pool. He stayed home both Thursday and Friday, so he missed his gymnastics again. But since he was home it gave us time to get a paper written. He had to write a report for Spanish class on a custom in a spanish speaking country. Tom recommended Day of the Dead-I found Scott some great books at the library and we spent a day reading all about it and writing the report. He did a good job. The kids spent the entire last week doing standardized testing, so fortunately they did not have a lot of homework. But their little brains were fried at the end of the day.
On Friday I had to spend some time preparing for my Girl Scout meeting. I picked up the girls after school and brought them home to work on their Silver Award and prepare for a Brownie badge that they are putting on this coming Friday at school for our 2nd graders. This is all extra points for our Silver Award which we should receive in May. After the meeting I had to run the girls up to school for a Middle School Madness party with the church youth group. They spent the night playing air hockey and sumo wrestling in fat suits, dancing and playing games, and of course eating snacks. But there was a catch-they had to participate in the Stations of the Course first. Allison said she was worn out from all the kneeling and sitting and walking around the church! At least they didn't have to do them outside in the dark! She sure was tired that night. Me too-I was so grateful another mom brought her home since I fell asleep on the couch before eleven! At least I had myself a fish dinner from church before I came home!
On Sunday we had another puppy training class-looks like we are doing pretty well with sit and lie down. At least the potty training seems to be going well-no accidents over the past few weeks! Sunday evening, Tom and Allison went off to enjoy a GS event together-Daddy Daughter dance and rollerblading event. Tom actually enjoyed the event. He went with another GS and her Dad, so they knew someone at the event. and while he was off with Allison, I took Scott and the Dad's son to see Monsters vs Aliens movie in 3D IMAX. We all enjoyed the movie-especially in 3D.
I think the long week did me in. Tom was out of town in Salt Lake City working last week so I was on my own with the kids. Tom even missed his own Northrop award dinner. Northrop had a big dinner at the Westin hotel for their employees that displayed exceptional work projects this past year. They actually had to host a dinner every night for 4 nights since there were so many groups being honored. Tom asked me to go in his place, so after picking up the kids and dropping them off at home with dinner, I changed my clothes and ran off to arrive just as they were serving the salads. I sat at Tom's boss's table and they let me know that not one person in Tom's group was able to make it to the dinner that night. They asked if I wouldn't mind standing up in their places. So there I was representing the entire group with lots of photo opps while emailing Tom in Salt Lake. I did have a very nice dinner and enjoyed talking to all the ladies and picking up Tom's award. The Northrop employess just couldn't believe I was brave enough to do that. They must not know me very well! No big deal for me. And on the next day at work I had to do an impromptu advertisement for our Rehab Dept on our inhouse television station during our Health Fair. I think I had more than enough attention last week.
And we were all still pretty pooped out with our trip to Busch Gardens on Sunday.
Another Busy week this week! At least the flowers are all blooming and Spring has arrived(but the allergy sufferers in the family are not too happy)-we even had our first Thunder Storm this weekend. I hear they had snow in Detroit. Tom sure had snow in Salt Lake. We are having cherry blossoms!
Kathleen and family