Bragging Rights

I know it's kind of annoying when people brag about their kids, but I just can't help it. This week has been exciting.

Odessa passed off her back walk-over series and running front limber yesterday....I was surprised to know they had official names. She was happy because she got 2 big bubble gums.

Braunté was one of the sixth grade officers at her school this year and she was trying to decide if she should run for 7th grade class office. I guess each elementary school gets to send one officer and one peer leader to the Jr. High. The kids vote and the student with the most votes is elected the class officer and the student with the second most votes becomes the peer leader. Braunté didn't know if she should run because the officers are expected to attend all the sporting events and have a lot of responsibilities (and a $200 sweater). She really wanted to be a peer leader though, so she decided to go for it. Anyway, she missed being elected class officer by just 2 votes! (I told her we could have bought their votes by passing out treats, haha). She is pretty excited that she gets to be the peer leader. Isn't she lucky she has a mom who writes her speeches and a dad who records her back-up rap music for them?

And then today some people came from PAL camp to audition the sixth graders. I guess this is a special summer camp for "talented children" where 1-2 kids in each of several different categories are selected from each school to attend. They audition kids for the performing arts area and the teachers select the others. Her teacher told me Braunté would be invited and I was kind of hoping she could go under leadership, creative writing, visual arts, or math, but she was chosen in auditions as the girl to attend in performing arts! She was pretty surprised and so was I. I guess she can sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" pretty well :)

p.s. her school play is this Friday night at 6:00, call me for more info. if you want to come.

Men vs. Women

The other night John and I were sitting in bed and I guess I made a weird face. He asked what I was thinking about and I had no idea how to respond. I had been thinking of about 15 random thoughts in the previous 30 seconds.............I forgot to make some phone calls, who drives carpool in the morning? I need to work on the school newsletter, I hope I remember to email those Young Womens notes to Stacie, I wonder where that paper went, I need to check on my mother-in-law, I should have played more with Tolkien today, I only have a few days left to get our tax information ready, I need to finish sewing Braunté's costume, when am I going to be able to make it to the grocery store? Did I lock the back door? I hope I don't forget to put those things in my bag, I didn't start the dishwasher, I signed up to work at the Book Fair tomorrow................

Mark Gungor "Tale of Two Brains"

So my dad sent me an email with this video in it and it's too true. I thought it was pretty funny. This video really explains a lot about issues John and I have had. I already knew how my brain worked and now I know what's going on in John's, but the question is, is there a solution?

Here's a typical day in the life of us, do you think John is in "the nothing box"?