One week and 5 days...

That's how much summer we have left. The girls start back to school on August 7th. Don't you think that is a little early? I remember starting around August 16th and getting out around May 19th. What ever happened to that school year?

Also, why must we have "early" and "late" schools? Early schools start around 7:20am and late schools after 8:00am. Thank goodness we are a "late" school. Carlyn starts at 8:15am and Noelle at 8:30am. What ever happened to 8:00-3:00? We all went to school that way and did fine I might add. Why do we have to change things that work? I don't get it.
So I drop Carlyn off at 8:15 and yell "See you at 3:35." I drop Noelle off at 8:30 and yell "See you at 3:15." It just doesn't sound right to me.

Does this mean I am getting old and set in my ways?

The 'guest" in our garage

Dean and I were outside tonight trying to clean out and straighten up the garage. I had the shop-vac out vacuuming up spider webs and dead bugs. Dean was moving boxes around and called out to me to come look. This is what I saw:

That's right a black widow! Making herself at home in our garage. Getting ready to have many, many more black widow babies!

This is a shot right before Dean squashed her and her eggsack. Her web was very sticky and hard to get off the wall.

I just hope she didn't have any friends shacking up with her!

Starkville calls

Carlyn is headed to Starkville this afternoon to spend a few nights with one of her friends. She is so excited! If I offered her $1000 to stay in Southaven this week I don't think she would take it. She and Cat are going to swim at the country club, be creative at Dandy Doodlez, and catch a movie at the Hollywood Premiere Cinema. We are meeting in Tupelo at the mall.

Noelle is sad that she will have no one to play with. I am happy that she will have no one to argue with.

In other news, I have an interview with Olive Branch Intermediate School on Thursday for a school nurse position. I am very excited about this job and would love to get it. I am going to put on some major charm during this interview! The position is a nine month position so it is perfect for me and the girls. We would be on the same schedule.

Mom is coming on Wednesday to stay with the girls (now one girl) during my interview. She was going to take them both back to Grenada with her on Thursday but now it will be just Noelle. We are having a 4th of July get together in Grenada with Mom and Dad and Dean's family. (Cin, you know you want to come!)

I guess there is nothing else exciting happening. I hope Carlyn won't chain herself to a tree in Starkville so she can stay there. We are supposed to pick her up on Thursday. We'll see how that goes.

Happy Birthday.....

to Camden Noelle Patterson. She was born 7 years ago today at 2:07pm. Tomorrow night we are going to see Cats at the Orpheum to celebrate! (Noelle loves Cats)

She's still my baby, I don't care how old she gets!

Heaven on Earth

Enough said.

Good Golly....

Meet Molly!

Molly is the newest addition to the Patterson household. We got her on May 22 from our old neighbors in Starkville. For those of you who know she is Sparx's baby and Fiesty's niece. Sparx was the siamese looking cat with no tail. Molly does not have a tail either. She is very playful and has given me and the girls plenty of scratches all over. She is not as innocent as she looks in these pictures. We are glad we got her. She is keeping us entertained!

Sock Hop

Carlyn's 5th grade class celebrated their promotion to 6th grade with a sock hop last Friday. All the kids (and teachers) dressed up in 50's costumes and danced to 50's music, drank coke floats, hula hooped and cake walked. It was fun to watch all the kids having such a great time. Carlyn and her "date", Logan

Doing the Twist. Carlyn's teacher is on the right in the blue poodle skirt

Carlyn and a few of her classmates
Carlyn and a former classmate (she has moved to Hollywood and appeared in several commercials and movies)

DeSoto Central Elementary makes a big deal about 5th grade promotion because it is their last class in elementary school. 6th grade is in the Middle School. The promotion ceremony was held this past Tuesday. They also had a cookout on Monday. This has been a busy week! More posts to come on that!