I went with a couple friends of mine (Barb and Sue)  to a quilting club at the local Lutheran Church here in town.  First we work out at SNAP and then we head over there.  I was at a table with Sue and 2 other women at the pinning table.  We would take a top lay it face down on the tables and then put batting on it and then lay the top on.  Then you flip it over smooth it out and pin it all together and hand it off to the sewing table, then do it again with another one.

They make these quilts and send them off once a year to a special mission, I forget the name now.  Today was the shipping day and they had 149 quilts boxed up ready to go.  Today we did 6.  It is every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30.  A lot of these ladies are in their 70′s and 80′s.  I believe I was the youngest one there.  It was fun and I will probably go every Tuesday.

Barb cuts the backs and matches them with fronts.

The tying table is where they take thick thread and pull it through where the corners meet and tie it in a knot.

The boys won their football game this past Wed.  I forget the score now, but they won by quiet a bit!  They had a good time and I finally remembered to take my camera!  CJ is #50 and Joe is #54 and their good friend Colin is #51

They call CJ “The Beast” and you can hear the coach from the other side yelling at the team to watch out for #50!  LOL!!  He is ALWAYS going after the guy with the ball, who ever has it!

Joe is center so doesn’t do much tackling.

Okay, the washer is fine.  I have no clue what the smell was or anything.  I flipped the switches in the electrical box and tried it after lunch and it worked just fine.  Guess it had time to cool off.  I did call about prices and it’s a $50 service call and a new motor would run me about $200 a new machine is on sale right now for $800 so I was opting for the new motor but it decided to fix itself, because it knew better than to die on me!

Took Joe to his doctor appointment for his attention/focus problems and found that in 1 month he has grown 1 inch and has lost 8 pounds!!  He was THRILLED!!!  LOL!!    They did up his medication because it’s wearing off right after lunch.  He said that if we are stilling having a LOT of problems with Joe trying to do his homework there are some things we can try.  I may take the med’s to the nurse and have Joe take them after 2 period.  His first period is gym and his second is band.  This might help the med’s to last longer for him.  He can’t focus worth crap in his 8th period study hall.  People are talking and it’s extremely distracting.

CJ started his bowling league on Saturday and he had a good time. I think his girlfriend is a little flighty but then I got to thinking and I remember be just that way until I was well into my 20′s so I can’t say too much about it! While CJ was bowling, I took Joe to the beach with his new birthday present. He loves that metal detector and his best find was an old spoon! LOL!! He found TONS of bullets from the D-Day reenactments. He found a bunch of junk too. He wants me to take him again next week. He also wants to find good places to go so I will have to look around and maybe I’ll have him join a metal detecting group, though I think the closest one is Edinboro! SIGH! He is having a lot of fun with it though.

A new thing I am dealing with this year is seeing Chrissy a lot now. Her oldest boy is in the 7th grade and plays football. Now for games, the 7th grade plays on Tuesday’s and the 8th on Wednesday’s but the boys have to be at all the 7th grade home games and there she is with her 3rd husband. AGAIN, I had NO idea who she was and smiled at her and thought, umm she looks familiar, LOL!! She had glasses on and was about 20 pounds more than the last time I saw her! So, now I see her every time I pick the boys up from practice, the football games and even the high school football games! Good grief! But, oddly enough since I have been seeing her so much it’s now not bothering me anymore. I actually feel much better knowing that it doesn’t bother me. I used to be afraid to go anywhere in town for fear of running into her, now I could care less! She doesn’t deserve any space in my brain anymore. I am SO moving on!

I am back into coaching again as I had kind of let that go for about a year. I had some “practice” clients and I thought it went REALLY bad, they didn’t think that but I did. I felt like I had no direction, no method, I wouldn’t know what questions to ask, it was just BAD! So, I felt like maybe this wasn’t for me and I just quit. Then Terri got a hold of me and has been working with me weekly and I’m getting back into it. Come to find out, the problem was I was working with people that were years out from D-Day (Discovery Day) and weren’t really having issues SO this made it VERY hard for me and I also had a few that as Terri put it, where stabbing themselves in the arm with a knife and wanted me to make them feel better BUT they wanted to keep stabbing themselves. So, make me feel better but I’m going to keep doing this but I want to know how to feel better while doing this. LOL! Okay, so I had some really hard to work with clients!

So, I am going to finish up my schooling and get certified for coaching but Terri also mentioned that I should get certified in recovery. I had no idea there was such a thing! So, next month I am doing a 4 day intensive in Pittsburgh to become certified in Grief Recovery. SO COOL!! That will help a lot in giving me a direction to go in too. I also will be explaining to any clients right up front that if they want to keep stabbing themselves and they refuse to set and keep boundaries then I’m not the coach for them! PERIOD! LOL!! To graduate from my coaching school I still have to do 6 practicums, which is where I will coach someone for 30 minutes twice and be coached for 30 minutes twice, not in a row. I also have to observe 3 of these. They are done via phone and last 5 hours!! They are $295 each BUT since I am on the volunteer team I get 3 free ones for every year I am a volunteer. The first year I was a volunteer I got the rest of my schooling paid for, I only paid $1,200 out of $5,500. Not bad! The second year I got 3 free and my third year I will get another 3. Spring of 2010 I will have 6 total so I won’t have to pay for any of them!! YA!! The hard part is just doing it!! I haven’t even done one yet! LOL! After I do all 6 I then have to go through the certification process and then I will be done. I am giving myself a year to do all this.

BTW, Terri is the general manager for Coachville and the head of our members service team. I am the help desk supervisor over at Coachville. She is my mentor coach, of which you have to have one to get certified too and she has been helping me for a while for free, so nice!!

While sitting here writing this, my washing machine just died!! I have had that now for 9 years I think? So, I have to have my guy come look at it and give me the bad news on what it will take to fix it. If it’s less than buying a new one I will. It has my sheets in it and it’s full of water!! ARG!! The whole mudroom stinks like burnt rubber, but it’s not just a belt because I would be able to drain the water if it was. SIGH!!!

Yesterday was Joe’s 13th birthday. We went to the JV football game at 10am, my nephew Dave plays in that game. My in-laws were there along with Bridget, her husband and kids and Paul and his youngest. We sat in chairs we brought under the shade of the trees even though we were on the visiting side, LOL!! We were the only ones cheering for Conneaut, odd! LOL!

Bridget and Clinton left for Texas after the game, their visit is over and back home they go. Joe wanted Colin to spend the day with him so we took the boys to lazer tag in Erie and they played for 30 minutes while Chuck and I went down the road so he could buy a dump truck. The motor in his pick up truck died so he needed a new truck that could haul heavy loads.

The boys were done before Chuck was so I picked them up and brought them back to the truck lot to sign papers and then we left the truck there and we went to Golden Corral for lunch. We then took the boys to Game Stop to look around and then back up to lazer tag and all 5 of us played this time. Boy, after about 20 minutes I was soaked in sweat and ready to be done! LOL! I think Chuck was too! The 3 boys had a blast though. We had about 20 people playing and last time it was just the 3 boys playing by themselves. Chuck and my team lost, LOL!

Then we came back home and the boys played video games till about 9pm and I took Colin home. Colin said this was the best day he’s had a in VERY long time. Joe had a lot of fun too. The other night Joe picked out a metal detector online and we ordered it and hopefully it will be here Tuesday. He has wanted one for years and I think he is old enough now for one. He can hardly wait till it gets here!

We never did sing happy birthday or have candles on his pie! We were all so tired that we forgot! We’ll have to do that today. My friend Donna makes pies and I ordered a butterfinger pie from her. Joe love’s her pies! She and her husband Dave own and run the restaurant “Crazy Dave’s” here in town where I eat lunch with the girls every Thursday.

Today we have music lessons in Erie. Because of football they can’t have lessons here at the house on Wed. because they have games that day. We haven’t had a lesson in a few weeks as Mr. Lyon has been moving and we have been super busy. I’m hoping we can at least do every other week till football is done. It’s hard to even practice because they don’t get home till after 5 and they have to shower, eat and do homework so I have them do 1 instrument a day because of the time restraints. It’s always better when football is done!

This year Joe isn’t swimming and CJ isn’t doing gymnastics so I am no longer running to Ashtabula every single night! That is WONDERFUL!!! CJ is joining a bowling league every Saturday with his girlfriend Taylor. We warned him that if they break up he still has to bowl on her team every Saturday till the season is over. He said okay. Bowling usually goes till spring. I will have to see if Joe wants to join too, it starts this coming Saturday.