THE NEWTON'S

Blogger seems to be having a hard time with photo's and video's right now.  I'll try to get them up tomorrow...

I've finally gotten some pictures and video uploaded from some of the kids school programs. First is a little video and some pictures from Alex's 4th grade P.E. program last month.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a great day at home with our little family. The kids watched the parade and played. Rich got his projector and screen installed upstairs, and I cooked... and cooked, and cooked. We had a great Thanksgiving dinner and the kids all shared what they were thankful for. Then we ate, and had about 5 times as much food as we needed, but it was yummy! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

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Yesterday Alyssa had a birthday party for a girl in her Kindergarten class. It was at a pumpkin patch, and since it's past halloween, the only people there were those of us there for the party. They had a petting zoo area where kids could pet goats, and horses, and llama's and bunnies. They could go on a pony ride, and play in a giant hay area where there were bales of hay and lots of areas to climb up and down and around in the hay. It was really a lot of fun and since it was just our group there, the kids could run around all over the place. Alyssa has always been a very cautious girl. She usually doesn't like new situations and is very shy and quiet. So it was surprising to me when she announced to Rich and I that she wanted me to drop her off at the party, and pick her up at the end. Since I don't really know the family of the birthday girl, I wasn't going to drop her off, because I could probably fit the definition of an overprotective mother sometimes,...

I've always thought that I would get more into volunteering at the kids school "when the kids were older". I find myself this year in an interesting place, because I do only have one child home during the afternoons, and I am feeling more of a pull towards getting into the school and helping with stuff. This morning I had the opportunity to go to the school and help inventory the stuff for the school's holiday store. The PTA set's it up and most stuff is $2 or $3 and kids can come in and buy stuff for their family at school and get the satisfaction of christmas shopping for their family without mom or dad having to take them to the store. We were able to pull everything out and inventory it and restock it more organized onto the shelves in the storage room in just under 2 hours. It was a productive morning and I'm glad I was able to help. Alyssa and Angela and two other little kids played really well while us mom's were able to go through the stuf...

Ashley pulled out some stickers this afternoon. She's supposed to be cleaning up her room and found them in a scrapbooking kit of hers that the little girls got into in her room (I'll be helping with part of the room since she didn't make all the mess). The three girls just came out of their rooms with "earings" on... the stickers. So I told Alyssa that it was beautiful, and to go clean her room with her beautiful earings on. A minute later I heard Alyssa telling Ashley that I called the earings beautiful... then a second later comes Ashley's voice mimicing me "and go clean your rooms!". So I guess she can hear me in the other room when I'm talking to her right?? :)