Today I was at a meeting at work. Daughter #2 calls (18 yrs old). I send her to voice mail. She calls again, I send her to voice mail again. So she texts me that she urgently needs to talk to me within the next hour. No problem, the meeting will be over in about 15 min. I start to text her back, and SHE CALLS AGAIN!!! I finally give up, leave the meeting and answer the call. I come back 2 minutes later, and everyone wants to know what the emergency is: Death, car accident? No she just needed me to email her a copy of her medical insurance card so she can fill out some paperwork at school. DUUUUUUHHHHH!!!

A quick catch-up

Well, I haven't posted anything in a long time, but since I'm thinking of getting it going again, here is a quick update on the girls: 1) The oldest is now 20 and attending college. She has had the same boyfriend for about 2 years, so it looks serious. 2) The next oldest has also graduated high school (barely) and is also just starting college. 3) Daughter number three is just starting high school and is very busy with marching band 4) The youngest is just starting 7th grade. No boys on the horizon at the moment.

The stray that followed her home

Yesterday we also had an interesting experience. Our oldest daughter had a boy at school and been hitting on her for the last few days, who basically hung around waiting for her after school and weaseled himself a ride over to our house, where he ended up staying for like two or three hours. That didn't go over too well with my wife because basically the kid was kind of rude, obnoxious and swore all over the place in front of the younger kids AND couldn't manage to keep his hands to himself even though my wife was IN THE ROOM. According to my daughter, sitting next to him on the couch was a lot like the fight scenes between Neo and the Agent in the Matrix. His nickname now is the OCTOPUS. Anyway, we finally got rid of him and had a nice chat with number one daughter about what kind of boy she is supposed to date and what kind of boy she shouldn't. Octopus definitely fit in the second category. Hopefully we won't be seeing him around here again anytime soon (although she still hasn't given him back the earrings he gave her. Still working on that.)

Father Daughter Dance

Tonight was the big father daughter dance with elementary school. I took daughter number three and number four with me to go enjoy a nice 80's dance. They didn't think very much of the 80's music (Dad, it's so old and boring!) and even less of 80's fashions (Yuck, too much neon) but they did enjoy the food and have a lot of fun hanging out with their friends and running around. We managed to take a pretty nice picture in the photo booth they had to remember the evening. There were a lot of dads dressed 80's style with wigs, zebra style pants and rapper outfits. Sometimes it felt like I was in a flashback of "Hot Tub Time Machine"...

High School Valentine's Day Drama

Interesting day at the high school today it was Valentine's Day one daughter got a Valentines gift from her boyfriend while the oldest (a Junior) got a Valentines gift from a freshman boy who's a friend of daughter number two. Interesting. We always figured the boy had a crush on daughter number two, who is also a freshman, but apparently he likes the older daughter. This should really add to the drama around here. Nothing but fun in our house!

New addition to the page

Daughter #1 is supposed to play a history game on the Internet as part of her grade. ,So far I'm kicking her rear. My score is 273,451 which gives me a travel IQ of 101...heh, heh, heh...

The end of the crazy times

Well, I should have enough time to breathe and sleep soon. Soccer season is almost over!!!! Daughter #3 is now done with her games and #4 has her last game next Saturday!!! So no more soccer practices!!! Now I just have to wait until the 1st week of December for marching band to end...