Day 470 and plum worn out tonight!

It was a rough day here at Kiddo Kare today. Just one of "those" days. Ya know the kind you have at any job. Anyway...

Our preacher and another member brought my van back yesterday. I thought that was so nice. I had told him I would just get it when I went for the VBS training tonight, but it was nice to have it back. Then I realized later that he also filled it up with gas! That was so sweet!

I am tired and my brain is fried so that's it for today.

Days 467, 468, 469 and what a weekend!

The good news is between 6 teenagers spending the night with Tasha on Saturday, 5 of them sticking around all day Sunday (and 3 spending the night again on Sunday night because they couldn't get home) thunderstorms, tornado warnings, and getting stuck at church due to flooding roads, I was able to get my homework done and submitted this weekend. Today starts my last units for this semester. WOOHOO!!!!

Anyway, let's back up. Tasha and her group of friends had a sleepover here on Saturday night. There were supposed to be 8 girls but one couldn't make it. She was coming later in the evening, but by then it was storming and the road between here and where she lives was already closed. It started storming here early in the evening. At one point, the storm sirens blew, but luckily there wasn't much going on at that point and we didn't end up down in the storm shelter. It continued raining and storming and hailing throughout the evening. Around 8:15, we lost power for about an hour. I had finished one of my papers earlier so when the power came back on and it wasn't storming at the moment, I rebooted the computer and got that paper turned in. At the same time, I e-mailed the other professor and told him what was going on in case we lost power or anything and I could not get the other paper turned in on time. I stayed up until 12:30 watching weather and it looked like things were finally calming down for us so I went ahead and went to bed. About 1:00 a.m., the storm sirens blew again. One of the girl's moms picked her up and took her up to the storm shelter here in town, and the other 6 girls and I went down to the storm shelter in our basement. We were down there until almost 3:00 a.m. and then spent another hour watching the weather after they blew the all-clear, just to make sure it was safe to go to bed. I got up and went to church because I had agreed to teach the youth girl's Sunday school class. One of the girls who lives near the church went with me. We got there fine, but we had to go a different way than usual because the road I usually take was flooded. After church, I headed home and when I turned onto the road I had taken earlier, it said "road closed". I thought "uh-oh, that was not there earlier!". Sure enough, now that road was flooded too! I was so tired, still had all that homework to do and I just burst into tears. I called Tom and then I called the preacher who had me come back to the church. He had to go to Enid and he was able to get his pickup through the water and got me home (but my van is still at the church). He did not think my van would have made it though. So I got home, got my homework done and turned in, and was able to do a little relaxing last night. Three of Tasha's friends had to spend the night again because roads were flooded where they could not get home.

All in all, quite an interesting weekend! How was yours?

Day 466 and a homework break

Well, I've got homework piled up and due again on Sunday night, so I am going to have to take a break this weekend. For some reason, this semester is really kicking my tail.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Day 465 and what is up with this heat?

My goodness, it got up to around 90 degrees again today. Didn't we just have a big snowstorm a few weeks ago? I am so not ready for this. Now watch, when it actually IS summer, it probably won't be hot. LOL. We can hope anyway.

I just got back from my mandatory food program meeting and a stop at United to pick up a few things.

I'm wondering, did anyone go to a viewing of Dave Ramsey's Town Hall for Hope anywhere? I wanted to go so bad, but could not miss this meeting. I am anxious to hear about it!

Day 464 and a long week

I've really enjoyed the revival services this week but it has made for a long week being gone every night. Revival is over, but I still have somewhere to go tomorrow evening, a mandatory food program meeting. It's late and I'm going to bed. Hope everyone enjoyed the few days of spring we had because I think summer is already here. LOL.

Day 463 and a book review

One of my child care families gave me a Hasting's gift card for Christmas. One of the books that I bought with it was called The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers and was about Fred Rogers from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. I grew up watching Mr. Rogers and always loved him. I finally got around to reading the book and finished it a few days ago. This book was wonderful. It was written by a friend of his who met him when she interviewed him for a TV program. I found the book very powerful and thought provoking and well...just sweet. I have sent the book to a friend to read, but if you can find a copy and like to read, I highly recommend it! The author is Amy Hollingsworth and this is her website: http://amyhollingsworth.com/. It looks like she has another book out, too.

Another book that is getting alot of attention right now is called The Shack. My Sunday school teacher gave me a copy to read, but it will be May 8th before I have a chance to read it. I'll share my thoughts on it after I read it.

Day 462 and another plumber visit!

So last night, Tom discovered we had another leak downstairs in the basement. So this morning I called the plumber to come fix it. It was $84 this time. Hopefully we won't have to see the plumber again for a while!