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Donna's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 5/19/07 -------------------- 4/21/07 3/11/07 2/9/07 1/9/07, Entry 2 12/22/06 12/11/06 11/28/06 11/20/06 11/15/06 11/10/06 11/1/06 10/24/06 10/17/06 10/11/06 10/3/06 9/25/06 9/17/06 9/11/06 9/6/06 8/27/06 8/20/06 8/13/06 8/6/06 7/30/06 7/23/06 7/16/06 7/9/06 7/4/06 6/25/06 6/19/06 6/11/06 6/4/06 -------------------- Donna's Introduction

09/11/06 - Patriots Day, back to school virus, and an unexpected meeting

September 11, 2006

First, I'd like to send out my thoughts and prayers to all the people who were involved in or affected by the 9/11 tragedy five years ago:  the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Flight 93 victims, their family and friends, the firefighters and others who worked to rescue and recover as many people as they could, our President and military who are fighting terrorism and protecting our country, and anyone else I may have missed.  It was a sad day and one I will never forget.

Justin started his new school year last Tuesday, and was sent home Wednesday with diarrhea.  They said there was a stomach virus going around and he had to stay home until it was gone.  The strange thing was although it ended up lasting until Saturday, he did not act sick at all.  If it weren't for the diarrhea you would not know there was anything wrong with him.  I picked him up on Wednesday and brought him back to work with me, and Daddy picked him up a couple of hours later.  Luckily, our neighbor offered to watch him Thursday and Friday.  I hadn't even tried to find anyone to watch him, because I didn't want him to get anyone else sick with the virus, but she offered so it worked out well that we didn't have to take time off.  I've probably said it a few times, but I am so thankful he doesn't get sick often!

We had two birthday parties this weekend.  The first one was a 40 ^th birthday for my husband's friend.  It was mostly adults, only three kids and Justin was the youngest.  They had an in-ground pool, and Justin and Daddy spent some time swimming.  There was a band too, and Justin was mesmerized sitting watching them play.  Sunday we went to a party for a 5-year-old boy.  There were lots of kids there, but all older than Justin of course.  He had fun playing on the slide and swings though, and later found the birthday boy's trucks and spent some time with them.  Then my husband went to help pick up pizza for the party, and he met up with his aunt, uncle, and cousin that he hadn't seen in many years, and I had never met.  We ended up going over to the restaurant and sat and talked with them for a little while.  It was really nice to finally meet them, and if all goes well, we should be going to dinner at their house next weekend.

Challenge update:  Last week I cleaned out and organized our bedroom closet and dresser.  This was long overdue.  I only got rid of a few things, but now I can find everything, and I bought an over-the-door shoe organizer so all the shoes aren't piled in the bottom of the closet anymore.  Justin's closet was done too, but his was easy.  It was already pretty organized, since most of his wardrobe changes twice a year and he wears a different size every year.  I am usually good about giving away his outgrown clothes before they start piling up too much.  I also tried to finish up the cleaning task list from last week and figure out how often to do each thing.  This proved to be the difficult part for me.  It is hard to find a happy medium:  if I make a task less often I feel like I am slacking, and if I make it more often, I feel like like I'm trying to do too much.  But if the end result is my house looking better, then I guess I am doing something right.  I can always make changes with the list as I go along.

I'd like to welcome our new MomsToday writers, Hope and Sarah, and also Amanda and Rachelle, who we haven't heard from yet.  Welcome ladies!  Looking forward to following your journeys.

Thanks for reading!
Donna

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