Baseball fever

We're 5-0 in the conference. We've had two games already this week and have another on Friday against First Flight (Nags Head). We beat the pants off of them last year; let's hope this year is the same!!! Go JV Aces!!!!!!

Congratulations Kyle and Howard. Hope you have a good time Lol and Amber. Sorry to hear about one of your dogs. Hope everything works out soon.

Enjoyed our time with Margaret on Sunday. Food was good, kitchen looked great! It's a good thing that Hannah's family didn't go. Amber started running a fever on Sunday and threw up that afternoon. She missed school Monday, but returned on Tuesday. She seemed to be feeling fine and made ball practice last night. She's on a all girl coach-pitch team this year. Playing with the boy/girl team helped her a lot last year. Tonight, she has red bumps on her face. Hannah is hoping that they're fever bumps and not the "Pox"!

Granddaddy Blanchard is in the hospital with the pneumonia. When he was admitted, his temp was 103, that's pretty high for an adult. He was doing better today and if he's doing as well tomorrow, he'll go back to the nursing home.

Howard, I'm looking forward to my spring break also!! I'm sorry for you folk who don't get a week off around Easter. We teachers really need a "shot" of free time near the end of school - just so we can hold on till June! I'm already planning our end of the year programs for the parents. They love it, no matter what we do. The four year old class is acting out Noah's Ark. I do whatever I can do to make it fun, and low stress for the kids. (but me - stressed and excited and working hard to pull it all together) We only practice it once and whatever happens, just happens! Can't tell you what the three year old class is doing - I want it to be a surprise for Hannah. Take care, B

Yesterday

We had a really nice time yesterday. It was relaxing and entertaining. Margaret, Emma reminded me this morning that she had left her "books" at your house. They aren't really books but rather laminate samples that she got from Lowe's. My child likes to collect the weirdest things! Anyways, PLEASE do not throw them away if you find them because she will remember them even if it's six months before we go to your house again. I wish my memory was that good.

Sorry to hear that Chris has been sick as well as Lol and Amber. I agree with you Margaret on the lab incident. I've never known a lab to be agressive at all. Hope everything turns out ok for ya'll.

Hope everyone has a good week; I heard this morning that there is a chance of tornadoes this afternoon!!! Isn't it kind of early?

We enjoyed having the family here today. Missed those of you that could not come. After lunch, we walked to the park where Emma could play. Of course she was not the only one that played. It was good seeing Ben too.
Howie called tonight and it seems that one of his dogs bit a teenage boy today. The boy first said that he was not in their yard, but he had to have been because the dogs do not cross the invisible fence. It is so unlike his dogs or any labs, that we feel that he and the others with him must have been antaginizing the dog. Howie had been in the bathroom when he had heard the dogs really barking and getting upset. The boy came with his mother and asked if the dog had had her shots and of course they had. A few minutes after the boy and his mother came, the police showed up. Even though she had shots, she was taken to the pound for 10 days. They will be able to have her transferred to their own vet tomorrow.
Kids cross the back of Howie's lot very often. Howie has given the boy notice that if he is caught transpassing again, they will press charges. Not a good day for the Hickory Belvin family.

Got an email from Chris. He has been sick for two days, throwing up, as he said,"about 10 or more times in 3 hours". He said he didn't know what caused it, that he had eaten at Burger King the night before and at skeikhs' houses for 2 days before that. He had gotten two bags of IV fluid and some medications. Maybe he had the same thing that Lol and Amber had last weekend.

Quoteing more of his email. "We've been out bouncing around the villages again, looking at road improvements and water tank projects and a school that was started by the Texas brigade we relieved and had just gotten finished. Same ol, same ol. I
don't really take pictures any more because it's the same places over and
over again. I will start taking my camera because this one road we went down
by the Euphrates goes through what you would think was the garden of Eden,
plush, green area with lots of palm trees; a really pretty area.

Well, not much more to tell. Feeling sleepy again. I love you."

Good night to all. Love ya all, Margaret