Sunday, June 24, 2012

Hello Friends...that is, if I have any friends left out there...

Greetings...since I last posted on May the something-th (YIKES) life has been busy busy busy. Aren't most folks' in the same boat...and how do we fix that? (Maybe by not talking about it all of the time...I'm the worst EVER offender!) We'll save that discussion for another time.

Let's go with highlights from the last six weeks or so...

1.  The obvious...I've been a bad blogger and bad blog friend. I surely hope to correct that.

2.  I completed my second year as a high school principal. I'm fairly confident that I corrected most of my  mistakes from the first year...and made a few new ones. At any rate, we're going into year three with confidence that it will be the best year yet.

3.  The master schedule for 2012-13 gets locked in tomorrow morning. That's the main reason you haven't heard from me lately. High school scheduling is QUITE the task.

4.  Lorelai spent a few weeks with us and has returned to Clemson to start graduate school in second summer session. Since my last blog, she "is in a relationship with..." (to use Facebook language) a certain young man. He is a lowcountry fellow so I don't know how this long-distance thing will go. I guess we'll see what he is made of.  Lorelai has high expectations and Hank and I have HIGHER expectations. Then there are Legare's expectations!! Big brothers are protective of their little sisters...it's in the contract.

If you've been reading my blog at all, you're probably aware that in the Southern family, we set the bar quite high. Lorelai is prissy, but she knows how to carry a shotgun.


5.  In August, Lorelai begins work as a part-time nanny. She is so excited. She has also started her own blog.  More on that later...

6.  Legare is fine. Work has had him on the road off and on to Chicago, Boston and DC. He's been down Charleston way a couple of times.

7.  Matthew, son of the infamous Meg and Will got married on Memorial Day weekend.  The equally infamous Sue and Louis were here and we had a marvelous time.

8. It pains me to write this...I am going to Dillards to try to buy a bathing suit. Seriously, I have spent the last I don't know how many summers in the boat, on the beach/dock, and by the pool in shorts and a t-shirt. I anticipate that I will come home depressed. But I'm going to be depressed in a new bathing suit.

More later...Tell me what has been happening with you...anything exciting?

8 comments:

  1. I'm so happy to read your update- hope you have some time off before you start school again. Our daughter just had her second ankle surgery- she had the screw removed from her foot because she was allergic to the titanium and like your Lorelai, our son graduated from SUNY Binghamton and will go off to Northeastern University to start his MBA in September. We are looking forward to a relaxing summer.

    Please keep us updated, I love your wry sense of humor.

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  2. I'm so happy to read your update- hope you have some time off before you start school again. Our daughter just had her second ankle surgery- she had the screw removed from her foot because she was allergic to the titanium and like your Lorelai, our son graduated from SUNY Binghamton and will go off to Northeastern University to start his MBA in September. We are looking forward to a relaxing summer.

    Please keep us updated, I love your wry sense of humor.

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  3. I'm so happy to read your update- hope you have some time off before you start school again. Our daughter just had her second ankle surgery- she had the screw removed from her foot because she was allergic to the titanium and like your Lorelai, our son graduated from SUNY Binghamton and will go off to Northeastern University to start his MBA in September. We are looking forward to a relaxing summer.

    Please keep us updated, I love your wry sense of humor.

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  4. Good to hear from you!
    Love the prissy and shotgun photos!
    Good luck with the swimsuit, it's daunting but cooler when your in the water.

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  5. Great to have you back. I'm not going bathing suit shopping I know that! Been running with kids at camps and busy summer!!

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  6. Happy summer! And have fun bathing suit shopping - there sure a lot more modest choices than there were 5 or 6 years ago :) Great shotgun/prissy pics - Love!

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  7. Congrats on year three as Principal! It's nice to get updates and see photos of your lovely children. All the best to you in the new school year and good luck with the swim suit. I would need a knee length, long sleeve, turtle neck swim suit! Mildred

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