Can you ever forgive me . . . . .

Let's just say that I have been waaaay less than diligent on my blogging. This spring has held many changes and duties in the Athena household. Not so much the parents, but the kids.

Here we go:

Bubba - Has completed his first year of high school, drivers ed and now has a job. The job is the weirdest part for me. I can handle the girlfriends, the kissing, the driving . . . but the job has me spinning into the reality that he is truly growing up.

Jubee - Has completed her last year of elementary and is ready to move on to Jr High, her school put on a wonderful play and she is now looking forward to a quiet summer alone! She is taking her first plane ride on July 1. She has always wanted to spend time in California with my grandparents, not sure why I haven't made that happen until now. She will fly to LA where my aunt will pick her up. I will drive to CA a week or so later and pick her up

I'm extremely grateful for how well my kids do in anything they attempt. They are both wonderful students and generally decent teenagers.

I'll do my best diligence in keeping you updated.

I know . . . . .

I've been very unloyal to my posting the last six weeks.

Promise to change.

Broken Home . . . .

I have very mixed feelings about Mel Gibson's pending divorce. I'm saddened for what his family will go through, yet elated with my new possibility. I've had a mega-crush on this man for a long long long long long time. When I read the news just after getting home I literally gasped and covered my mouth in surprise. When I told my family the news Bubba thew his fists in the air yelled out "Yeah! Two Christmas's".

I'll be sure to let you all know when I move.

I think it's rubbing off . . . . .

They had to move the vending machine at work. Two guys are in there working on it. I was in the break room getting more water (bleh). I look at the gross floor where the machine usually sits and guess what I found! I told them that if they weren't going to snag it I would! $0.70!

Sisterly Love . . . . .

Last December while waiting for a dinner date I spent some time at Eris' house. She was studiously working and hole punching a bunch of stuff. She broke the hole-puncher and handed it to me to fix. As no good deed goes unpunished, the puncher exploded little round paper pieces all over me. I giggled and then started throwing them all over her office not once, but three times. Then she took a handful and threw them in my car!

At dinner that night she neurotically played with sugar packets, making patterns and driving everyone nuts with her behavior. Little did everyone know, she was taking them to stuff into all the nooks and crannies of my car. Grrrr.

Since that night my coworkers and I have been saving punches. Knowing this had to be timed correctly, because she was staying at my house for the weekend the end of February, the opportunity hit me Friday afternoon that that was the night. The guys play poker once a month and the girls hang out at another house, this time the girls were at Eris's.

I left my purse in her office on purpose so that I could make the deposit just before I left. I had linked a bunch of her paperclips together (little ones and big ones together in the same link) earlier in the evening and staked out the perfect spot to leave my little gifts.

She found the gift 30 seconds too early. She returned the favor with "tripping" into the back seat of my car and throwing them all over me and the front of the car, I had a hard time getting my seatbelt hooked up since it was jam packed with punches! I thought that I ended up with the raw end of the deal, but it only took $2.25 and ten minutes at the car wash to get it cleaned up. Pretty sure her kids and animals will be dragging them through the house for a while!

BTW - I found more sugar packets while vacuuming out my car! Love you too Eris!

Every Vote Counts . . . . .

Pretty sure if you counted them right now, I would get Mother of the Year.

Jubee has decided that she wants to run for 7th grade class officer. The schools that end up at the Jr High each vote in two students from their elementary. She called on Eris, who has ran for office in the past, but we had to get moving if we wanted to get FIVE posters thought up, supplies purchased, and actually created tonight. Shopped, pulled all the craft stuff out, made and all cleaned up in three and a half hours.

If you know a 6th grader at her school please tell them to vote for her!

See if you can find the penguin on each poster!

I heart Utah . . . . .

Utah decided to change it's tax rates mid-stream last year. Screwed a lot of people. Needless to say, we owe the state more than we got in a refund from the Feds. Conveniently I have a box of checks that I only use to send lunch money to school with the kids. Sending the state about a dozen checks that all add up to the amount due is going to turn my frown upside down. Guess it's my way of breaking a plate.