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5-08-05 9:29pm

Had a nice day today- never even got out of my pj's. Fell back to sleep around noon and when I woke up Craig and Ryan had left for her basketball practice. So I sat around, watched several of the "Roseanne" episodes during the Roseanne Telethon (still funny after all these years!). The kids gave me a HUGE bag of different types of chocolate candy... HUGE box of Whoppers, peanut and plain M&M's, 6 Hershey bars (no almonds, thankyouverymuch) Watermelon Jolly Ranchers, Hershey Kisses, two boxes of Junior Mints. It had to have weighed 10lbs... so now I can predict, with a high degree of probability, that my ass is about to get even wider. Great.

Our "adopted" soldier wrote back to us earlier this week. I was really excited to hear from him and so where the kids. I don't really know much about him but he seems like a good guy. He sent out a really sweet Mother's Day email and the way he talked about his mother and his wife speaks volumes about him as a person.

I've deleted all of my archives because of all the spam in the comments. That really pisses me off. I know I could have just deleted all of them but there wasso much crap on there that I just decided to start over.

The summer basketball team is doing pretty good. Ryan is 15 but her team plays in the open division meaning that she is playing against girls who are 21 years old and under. She's having to work much harder to do well, so I really think this is going to help her. Her coach believes in teaching fundamentals and that's something she's never really had. The college letters are starting to come in again and that's REALLY exciting. She ended up with about 20 last year.

Kyra has gone back to not speaking to Laura. Things had started to get better and Kyra went over there three times, but then went back to refusing to see her. To top that off, Kyra has been awful at home and has stayed in trouble for almost two weeks. I'm sure she's acting out because of the situation with her mom but she's doing things that seem to indicate a total lack of common sense. Take, for instance, the day she washed a shoe box. No, I'm not kidding, I shit you not. She WASHED a f'ing cardboard shoe box. It wasn't even a GOOD shoe box, just some crappy box from Payless. When I asked her why she washed it, she said it was because there was some "stuff" on it that she wanted off. Uh... ok.

Austin graduates in less than two weeks. I can't believe it! It seems like it was jew a few days ago that I took him to kindergarten. He's been accepted to Tarleton State University, so we've been busy getting all that paperwork done. He isn't entirely sure what he wants to major in but thinks it will be some category of engineering so that he can still get a job in the racing field. He had planned on going to the NASCAR tech school after graduation, but decided to go to college first. There are about 10 people from his class, including his girlfriend, that are going to be going there. He and his best friend are going to share a dorm room. The school is about 45 minutes from home, so it's close enough to get to him quickly if something happens but it's also far enough away that he learns some independence.

Craig has been working his ass off, taking on other market areas. I think he spent about 15 hours working this weekend. I feel bad for him because he has soooo much to do, but he loves it and wouldn't have it any other way. His boss gave him two passes to the Colonial golf tournament so I guess we're going. I will only go the Pro- Am with him, but if he decides to invite someone else I'll back out. I don't like golf... at all. I'm hoping that Ryan's team isn't in a tournament that weekend so that Craig can go on Saturday and Sunday. Austin graduates on that Friday, so if he goes he'll have to leave early.

Alright, I gotta get in bed. Maybe I'll actually get some sleep today!