Happy New Year!!! I am sooo looking forward to 2009. Much love and peace to everyone. Here are the highlights of 2008:
Janurary 2008
-Charlotte called the director of Mike's preschool a dominatrix in her blog and then had to go back and delete it because some nosy mom read it.
-Charlotte had her first mentstrual cycle in 3 years because she was finally not pregnant or nursing for the first time in 3 years. This happened the morning Erik and Charlotte were to fly to Vegas. This was supposed to be the first time Charlotte had been to Vegas in 3 years when she wasn't pregnant or nursing.
-Our beloved nanny Katie informed Charlotte she was moving back home to Washington. Noooooooo!
Februrary 2008
-All 3 kids got pink-eye so Charlotte took them to the beach.
-New nanny quit after one day, breaking the old record of a day and a half. At least she didn't just walk out like that other one did after Mike hit her in the head with a dump truck.
-Charlotte found another nanny, a keeper, Sarah.
March 2008
-Charlotte beat her Dad at Scrabble by 400 points.
-Charlotte pulled Mike out of his preschool before they kicked him out. Mike assaulted teachers, students, used bad language and ran with 3 pairs of scissors in his hand.
-Jake turned 1 year old! Giving Erik and Charlotte a 1 year old, a 2 year old and a 3 year old!
April 2008
-Charlotte had a root canal.
-Michael outgrew his kidney reflux that had been diagnosed when he was 20 weeks in utero. Erik and Charlotte were greatly relieved!
-Erik and Charlotte spent a weekend all by themselves in San Francisco. They did nothing but eat and sleep.
-Michael started his third preschool and finally found a place that could handle him!
-Erik had pneumonia.
May 2008
-Charlotte ripped almost her whole pinkie nail off while trying to wrestle Bekah into her carseat.
-Erik and Charlotte took all 3 kids to an open house in a 2.5 million dollar home that had just been remodeled. Erik and Charlotte strongly advise other parents to never do this.
-The whole family went to Auntie Kristin's 40th birthday party and had a great time.
June 2008
-George Carlin died
-Erik and Charlotte had a date day in Livermore for father's day. They had lunch and went wine-tasting.
-Charlotte dressed up all 3 monkeys in Giants baseball outfits and took them to Grandpa Rankin's baseball game for Father's day. Grandpa Rankin's team is named The Giants. Mike, Bekah and Jake are the unofficial mascots.
July 2008
-Jake gets a double ear infection and Roseola.
-Mike is the star of the end of year preschool show.
-A friend of a neighbor gets into a physical fight on 4th of July night and Charlotte has to call 911.
-Estelle visits.
-Merrill and Chris sell their house.
-Mike and Bekah go to Jewish Day Camp together.
-The whole family goes camping with Grandpa Rankin and Grandma Cherie.
August 2008
-Charlotte spends the whole month obsessively watching politics on t.v.
-Mike starts Pre-K
-Bekah starts preschool and doesnt' shed a single tear.
September 2008
-Sarah Palin
-Charlotte's brother Bill came to visit.
-Charlotte's brother Bill gets deployed to Iraq.
-Charlotte loses 26 lbs. in 9 months.
-Bekah feels her first earthquake and the boys don't even notice.
October 2008
-Rutting season starts in San Ramon and there are a ton of wild deer running behind Erik and Charlotte's house. Chris Grimmer wants to hunt them with a cross-bow.
-Charlotte takes all 3 kids to temple by herself for the High Holy Day services and survives.
-Charlotte's best friends of 30 years visit with their children.
-A semi-truck hauling 2 trailers of dirt, loses one of it's trailers and dumps dirt all over a sidewalk on Erik and Charlotte's street.
-The whole family visits numerous pumpkin patches and Mike pees on one of the pumpkins.
-Erik's sister Merrill and her husband Chris move into their new home in San Ramon, yipee!
-Charlotte quits mom's club before she gets kicked out.
November 2008
-Obama
-Erik and Charlotte go to Erik's 20th high school year reunion.
-Charlotte's friends start a new mom's club and let her join.
-Thanksgiving.
-Charlotte's dad beats her at Scrabble.
December 2008
-Bekah turns 3 years old.
-Bekah gets her first haircut in a salon and tries to scratch the hairstylist.
-Bekah gets potty-trained.
-Erik and Charlotte go to a Raiders game in the rain.
-Hanukkah/Xmas
-Happy New Year.
Peace.
Charlotte
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Saturday, March 15, 2008
The last few weeks
Ok so I never thought anyone would really read my entries but they do! I go to tell somebody something and they say, oh yeah I read that in your blog. Well shit, then I got nothing to top that. I mean with the sleep-deprived induced Alzheimer's I repeat myself all of the time and now it's even worse because people can read my stories before I even get a chance to verbalize them.
I went to a mom's night out for the mom's club, the unofficial mom's club that has nothing to do with that other one, the other night and I arrived late, people were happy to see me. It took me aback for a moment...I have been well-known, even infamous, but popular was a new feeling. I was popular with the boys in high school but looking back that wasn't a good thing.
Ok since I have last blogged it's been almost a month and I will try to be better about filling in. We had our Mom's club swap, similar to that other mom's club, and I get rid of alot of stuff and came away with just one toy each for the kids and some cute summer dresses for Bekah. The following day Mike was invited to a bday party at a bowling alley so I recruited my mom to help out. Damn good idea! First thing Mike did when we got in there was run up to an alley grab a ball and throw it. The people whose game it was were quite shocked to have a 3 yr. old come out of nowhere and screw up their game. He was a spazz for most of the party but thankfully the mom who hosted, Robin, has 2 boys of her own and totally gets it.
So the week of March 3rd to March 8th was the auction fundraiser for VPPS. I worked my ass off for this. I may have not done as much as others but I have more kids so I have a built-in handicap that makes any work much more challenging. Remind me to never volunteer for anything like this again. I was in charge of the food for an auction with 50 guests and Erik was on-call that weekend so he could only help a little. I had to get Sarah to watch the kids and then go and set up and then Erik and I spent too much money and then had to stay and clean up! WE were exhausted and now Mike doesn't even go there anymore!!!
Yep I pulled him out. It was reccommend he go somewhere else with more structure and I was going to keep him enrolled just for that one hour of free time 2x a week until I found a new school but he had a bad experience last Wednesday so I yanked him. This bitch of a mother actually squeezed his arm and yelled at him. Granted he hit her in the face for telling him to go wash his hands, which he was reprimanded for, but just think if somebody grabbed your forearm forcefully and then yelled in your face, would you not be scared or angry? And she did this with adult witnesses around, what would she have done with nobody looking? The more I thought about it the more uncomfortable I became, so I gave my 2 weeks notice. When I told him about this, he was relieved and excited to go somewhere else, I should have done this sooner.
His teacher L brought a cute portfolio by that she had been working on and Mike was very excited. It was full of adorable pics and info on his developmental milestones. It was very touching of her to do that. And even Teacher Dominatrix called me and after some CYA on her part said that people would really miss us because we were so friendly and that Mike had made alot of friends too. We check out a new school on Wed. Wish us luck.
Friday Bekah celebrated Purim at Ganeinu, which is her playgroup at Temple. I dressed her as a princess and she was so pretty I could only look at her sideways. She is so much taller than the other girls her age she looks about a year older and I put her hair up in a top knot with coils coming down, it was gorgeous! Tommorrow we all go to the Purim carnival at Temple Isaiah and Nana Jan and Merrill, Chris and Kaitlyn and Haley will be there too. It should be fun. Mike will be Spiderman, Bekah a princess but I will have to drag out something for Jake.
Jake is getting 2 teeth at a time so he has been a little grouchy, but he is still cuddly and sweet too. My dad came to visit this afternoon. We managed to squeeze in some Scrabble and the first game I beat him unmercifully. I got over 400 points and he barey hit 300! The next game he only beat me by 3 so I was still kicking butt.
Both Mike and Bekah immediately asked where Grandma was. Cherie is on a cross-country road trip with Dawn, bringing Cherie's son Clay a new car. Cherie called today to ask me about Graceland in Memphis and I highly reccomended it! Erik and I are not fans of Elvis but on our road trip that was one of the best stops we made. Graceland was a blast, a great tour, Elvis was a cool dude.
Michael has his kidney test next Thursday. They will put a tube inside his penis and fill his kidneys with radioactive fluid to check the status of his kidney reflux. Wish us luck, if he has not outgrown this condition then he will need surgery soon. The last time he was checked the status was still moderate which is bad and will probably not go away with age. I am not looking forward to this at all.
I am watching the news right now and the big deal is Elliot Spitzer the Gov. in N.Y. who frequented prositutes for $5,000. an hour. Doh. Also Barack's former Reverend who is quoted as saying, "God Damn America". What an asshole!! I am still voting for Obama and I think my Dad is too.
Happy St. Patrick's Day and Happy Purim!
I went to a mom's night out for the mom's club, the unofficial mom's club that has nothing to do with that other one, the other night and I arrived late, people were happy to see me. It took me aback for a moment...I have been well-known, even infamous, but popular was a new feeling. I was popular with the boys in high school but looking back that wasn't a good thing.
Ok since I have last blogged it's been almost a month and I will try to be better about filling in. We had our Mom's club swap, similar to that other mom's club, and I get rid of alot of stuff and came away with just one toy each for the kids and some cute summer dresses for Bekah. The following day Mike was invited to a bday party at a bowling alley so I recruited my mom to help out. Damn good idea! First thing Mike did when we got in there was run up to an alley grab a ball and throw it. The people whose game it was were quite shocked to have a 3 yr. old come out of nowhere and screw up their game. He was a spazz for most of the party but thankfully the mom who hosted, Robin, has 2 boys of her own and totally gets it.
So the week of March 3rd to March 8th was the auction fundraiser for VPPS. I worked my ass off for this. I may have not done as much as others but I have more kids so I have a built-in handicap that makes any work much more challenging. Remind me to never volunteer for anything like this again. I was in charge of the food for an auction with 50 guests and Erik was on-call that weekend so he could only help a little. I had to get Sarah to watch the kids and then go and set up and then Erik and I spent too much money and then had to stay and clean up! WE were exhausted and now Mike doesn't even go there anymore!!!
Yep I pulled him out. It was reccommend he go somewhere else with more structure and I was going to keep him enrolled just for that one hour of free time 2x a week until I found a new school but he had a bad experience last Wednesday so I yanked him. This bitch of a mother actually squeezed his arm and yelled at him. Granted he hit her in the face for telling him to go wash his hands, which he was reprimanded for, but just think if somebody grabbed your forearm forcefully and then yelled in your face, would you not be scared or angry? And she did this with adult witnesses around, what would she have done with nobody looking? The more I thought about it the more uncomfortable I became, so I gave my 2 weeks notice. When I told him about this, he was relieved and excited to go somewhere else, I should have done this sooner.
His teacher L brought a cute portfolio by that she had been working on and Mike was very excited. It was full of adorable pics and info on his developmental milestones. It was very touching of her to do that. And even Teacher Dominatrix called me and after some CYA on her part said that people would really miss us because we were so friendly and that Mike had made alot of friends too. We check out a new school on Wed. Wish us luck.
Friday Bekah celebrated Purim at Ganeinu, which is her playgroup at Temple. I dressed her as a princess and she was so pretty I could only look at her sideways. She is so much taller than the other girls her age she looks about a year older and I put her hair up in a top knot with coils coming down, it was gorgeous! Tommorrow we all go to the Purim carnival at Temple Isaiah and Nana Jan and Merrill, Chris and Kaitlyn and Haley will be there too. It should be fun. Mike will be Spiderman, Bekah a princess but I will have to drag out something for Jake.
Jake is getting 2 teeth at a time so he has been a little grouchy, but he is still cuddly and sweet too. My dad came to visit this afternoon. We managed to squeeze in some Scrabble and the first game I beat him unmercifully. I got over 400 points and he barey hit 300! The next game he only beat me by 3 so I was still kicking butt.
Both Mike and Bekah immediately asked where Grandma was. Cherie is on a cross-country road trip with Dawn, bringing Cherie's son Clay a new car. Cherie called today to ask me about Graceland in Memphis and I highly reccomended it! Erik and I are not fans of Elvis but on our road trip that was one of the best stops we made. Graceland was a blast, a great tour, Elvis was a cool dude.
Michael has his kidney test next Thursday. They will put a tube inside his penis and fill his kidneys with radioactive fluid to check the status of his kidney reflux. Wish us luck, if he has not outgrown this condition then he will need surgery soon. The last time he was checked the status was still moderate which is bad and will probably not go away with age. I am not looking forward to this at all.
I am watching the news right now and the big deal is Elliot Spitzer the Gov. in N.Y. who frequented prositutes for $5,000. an hour. Doh. Also Barack's former Reverend who is quoted as saying, "God Damn America". What an asshole!! I am still voting for Obama and I think my Dad is too.
Happy St. Patrick's Day and Happy Purim!
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