Adventures of Pandi Bear and Aly Bug

Hey everyone! Hope your summer has been going well. Ours has been interesting. Who am I kidding, our life is crazy and I never know what to expect next. I guess that's what keeps me going day to day. LOL Well, let's go over the sad news first. August 20.  My mom's birthday. This day is really hard for me every year since I lost her. It has been 5 years since I got to spend a birthday with my awesome mom. I miss her more every single second of the day and think about how much of the kids' lives she has not gotten to enjoy with them.  Happy Birthday Debbie!  I love you mom! Let's now move on to other news. I got a promotion!!!!! So stupidly happy about this one. I have only been at Cap One for 1 year and 5 months. I have had some great opportunities that I have enjoyed.  I accepted a position as a Sr. Operations Process Coordinator within a specialty fraud group. I am really looking forward to working in this department and with the group that is there.  Yea

Welcome to the almost the 3rd full week of July!! Holy cow where has the summer gone??? The kids spent two weeks with their grandpa helping to sort through some stuff. Isn't it amazing how they will go to someone else's house to clean but you ask them to clean their room.  Oh, the horror.  Needless to say their rooms are still a mess. grrrrrrr 😒 We picked them up last weekend and am very happy to have them home.  While they were with grandpa, he taught Dre some much needed swimming skills and helped improve Aly's.  Thank you Grandpa Keith!!! They have been back a week and slid right back into regular habits. Sleeping in must be nice.  We finally got Dre's report card, she improved her grades from the 3rd quarter. I hope that she has learned that all we ask is that she try in her classes.  It is so easy to let your grades slide but bringing them is really really hard. While the kids were going, Jenna and I took a nice leisurely drive one day and ended up having

Happy July!!! I have missed more than a month. Sorry about that. Many things have been going on.  Work duties have changed. School let out. My family's general chaos. Let's get started: Alyson finished 3rd grade. She passed to 4th grade !!!!!  Very proud of her, she was even on the honor roll. They are replacing her school with a new one and it will be literally across the street when it is done.  She will attend it for the 5th grade and then move to middle school.  Doesn't that figure. Dre finished her 9th grade year. She brought her grades up a bit. They could be better, but we are just wanting her to try.  That's all we ever ask of our kids.  I believe that she will be in 10th grade next year. We still have not got her report card in the mail yet.  Very frustrating. Jenna is doing well except for the injuries she has sustained this year.  I think she needs to live in a bubble! I have been doing okay. I have changed some of my job duties at work. Learning

Hello all. I hope you have had an enjoyable week. I know that I have. This was one of my rare weeks off from school.  I finished my last semester last Saturday and the next one starts on Monday.  This semester is a retake of the classes that I took in October.  You can guess that I didn't do so well on those. (hence the retake) We had a good family week.  The kids finished their 3rd quarter.  It will be interesting to see how they did.  I hope they both did well. Alyson finished her bottle buddy project and turned it in. It was on Helen Keller.  If you are not sure what a bottle buddy is then do a Google Search.  She even typed out her report. I was very proud of her. Andrea has been practicing driving on the actual roads.  She is getting stronger with each trip that she drives.  She is building confidence and it's nice to see. She should be confident. Jenna has been working toward her weight goals. We are all super proud of her. I got to enjoy video games and time

Well, here we are at the end of March!!! Yeah!! I just finished my classes, that is a weight off of my shoulders.  Now to wait for Final grades.  Yikes The kids are doing good. Jenna is pretty good. Not much to report. Over the next few days, I will get to spend my precious time in whatever way I choose. And then it is back to class for me. check out my Accounting blog for more info. :) Have a great week. k

Well, today is Jenna's birthday.  Happy Birthday Baby!!!! 😻 I am a bit late but this weekend was again devoted to classwork. I am in the homestretch. Check out my blog related to school  My Journey into the Accounting World . The kids are in full swing of their third quarter in school. It's hard to believe that Dre will be in 10th next year and Aly will be in 4th.  Where has the time gone??? Well we've had a busy week last week.  Alyson is working on a project for school called a bottle buddy. If you're not sure what that is, google it and your world will be enlightened. 😺 Dre also had a busy week. She got her learner's permit last week on the 15th. So proud of her. She is an amazing young lady, guess I really should calling her a kid. She hasn't been little in some time. 😿My baby girl is growing up on me. I am very sad.  She is doing really great in photography. I love her prints. She will be starting a photography page soon.  I will put the link whe