Spanish Senility

The boys began taking Spanish again this school year. They stay an hour after school on Wednesdays every week for the entire school year. Their school offers this program through 8th grade and then they can take it in high school, so they will probably take Spanish once per week until they graduate. They aren't real thrilled about it right now, since it is just a review of everything they already know, but I keep telling them they will thank me someday. Some parents make their kids play soccer or the tuba, I'm making mine learn a second language-- at least that's useful!
So anyway I'm sitting at home Wednesday watching the Days of our Lives episode I had TiVo'ed earlier. The boys typically get off the bus about 3:45, so at about 4 when they still hadn't arrived home I started wondering why they were late. "Maybe they had a new driver or they changed the route," I pondered. I finished my program go back to change Alena, when I glanced at her clock which read 4:15, "I wonder where your brothers are?" When I remembered they were at Spanish and I was suppose to pick them up at 4:15! We hadn't planned on going anywhere that day so we were both still in our PJ's, so I threw on clothes and raced to the school. Luckily Alena's clock was a little fast, so I got there just in time to sneak into the back of the line, that was moving particularity slow that day. Crisis averted! I'm pretty confident I won't forget Spanish again-- arrepentido, los chicos!

Labor Day Weekend

We had been planning to go up to the Lake house for Labor Day Weekend all summer. Since Brian has been working so much overtime lately, he was particularly looking forward to his weekend off to get away from Imo's for awhile. We drove up late Friday night and Brian wasn't feeling very well by the time we went to bed and by Saturday he was miserable! I think he got the stomach bug the rest of us had a few weeks ago. He didn't leave the house, or the couch for that matter, all weekend long. Poor Brian! The rest of us had a good time. My mom & Bill, the boys & I all went out fishing on Saturday afternoon. Brady caught two fish, Bill caught six, and the rest of us didn't catch any! Although we did get to watch two otters catching dinner for about a half hour, which was very entertaining, especially since I wasn't fishing well. When we got home from fishing we headed down to the annual block party, which is held every year on Labor Day weekend. This year the party had a western theme, last year was a luau, and next year will be a Mexican fiesta--FUN! The kids had a lot of fun and the food was good, but this year they added karaoke to the festivities. Keep in mind that the majority of people who have places up there are over 60, so it was a lot of old people singing Patsy Cline and other artists of yester year, mainly country-western (sticking with the theme). It really wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good either. Since next year it is a Mexican theme, maybe they will all have to sing in Spanish and salsa dance. Now that's entertainment!