Katy's Happenings....

Yesterday morning, James and I decided to go to Cracker Barrel, which is one of our favorite places to eat. There we can share a big breakfast and both be full but not overly full. Well when we got there it was going to be a 25 to 30 minute wait. It was loud in there and after waiting for about 5 to 10 min. James decided that we needed to go somewhere alot less crowded and noisy. So off we went toward the beach. We found a cool restraunt called "Coconut Joe's Grill" on the Isle of Palms. We can sit outside and look at the water while being in a screened in porch. I love kids, I really do...however when I am trying to have a nice, quiet, peaceful brunch with my husband before he has to go off to Miami for 2 weeks or more..... Well there was a screamer in the bunch...not sure what table it was coming from but I do know that he/she was NOT happy. I was having flashbacks from when Kristina was about that age ....probably around a year or so if not less and she was SCREAM...OH...

This is the newest addition to the Moffitt household. This is " Ginger Tinkerbell Stitch Moffitt" Angel and Sammy had one last litter and we just gave away 5 puppies to neighbors around our street. However, this is the luckiest puppy of them all because she was chosen to stay with us. She is now about 7 weeks. My kitty Lulu that adopted us 2 yrs ago when we moved back here has gone missing. She got attacked by something about a week ago and was stuck in James' hood of his car. Well anyway, she was injured pretty bad. She could hardly walk. She came in and was under my bed for about 2 days and i would try to get her to eat. Then about 3 days ago she left the house while the doors were opened and has not been seen at all. I am hoping she will show up again soon when she has recovered. As James said...she lost 7 of her 9 lives that day. Well now that i shared our baby Ginger....and told you about Lulu...I guess its time to get ready for work.

Well it is now the close of the first 9 weeks at our school district. YEAHHH!! Our kids at school have a day off on Monday so the teachers can regroup and get the grades together etc. So for this year as gone pretty good. I only have 3 kids in my class and I teach 6 or 7 classes. I have lost count...I teach: Social Studies, Science, Writing, Reading, Math, Social Skills. I think that is it. We have been studying WATER in science class. I am so glad that we are finished with Water...course all this time we were also getting rain like crazy...so i was dealing with water experiements on the inside while it was having water on the outside. One cool thing though is when I was collecting water for our samples of water. I came across water by our classroom and it had tadpoles in it. So we now have 12 tadpoles that eventually will turn into frogs. I just transfered them over to a different container. It takes several months for them to transform into frogs but it should be fun to see the trans...

It is amazing how things can change within a blink of an eye. A week ago Saturday Sammy was doing his usual thing of barking at the neighbors etc. Within less than a week he was put to sleep because he lost the use of his back legs and was in severe pain. I read up on dachsands and how they have back trouble. Some go on and get wheelchairs and live supposedly happy lives. I just could not see putting him through the pain and torture of keeping him alive in that condition. He was so use to being active and running around. I would have had to well.....help him take care of going potty since he was incontinent. That was just too much...sigh... I miss him a bunch, especially when its time to go to sleep or when i am watching tv. or on the computer or taking a nap. He was like...always there right by me. August 5 was Jessica's anniversary into heaven...it has now been 4 yrs. The other day i figured it out and it has been: 1425 days since we have been able to give her a hug. This makes 3...

Ok I know its kinda goofy but I wanted to put a picture on here and thought this was cute. hehe Kids got home from camp today. Justin was telling me all about it. Kristina just wanted to go home and go to sleep. hehe She is crashed right now. I go to Rock Hill for an interview on Monday. I first go for the initial interview with the district and then if all goes well I should be able to see the principal that day for an interview with him. Are you wondering where the heck "ROCK HILL IS? " Well its well up YONDER...close to the SC/NC border and about 30 min. away from Charlotte, NC. There is also an opening for a ED teacher with Charleston County School district. I just saw it and wrote an email and sent a letter of interest to the principal. I would love to get that job because that would mean we would not need to move anywhere. I hate the thought of having to move away from our friends. We have been here about 5 yrs now except for the 9 months away in Greenville, this has ...

Well the time has finally come...the time for the kids to go to Happy Days camp for a week. YEAH!! They are so excited they are beside themselves. lol This will be their 5th year to go. It is hard to believe its been that long since they starting going to camp. I know they will enjoy being there and will enjoy the must needed break from Mom and Dad. Just think no chores for a week...WOO HOO!! A kids dream vacation....lol While they are away I will be working on Justin's room. While Kristina was gone a couple of weeks ago to camp for a few days I worked on her room. I have never seen so much clothes for a 13 yr old...gracious... Justin doesn't have that much stuff but the closet doubles as a storage area for extra clothes for me and for the Christmas stuff. So i need to go through the closet and straighten it up. I have now had 4 interviews with 3 different school districts for a teaching position...I am now waiting to see what is going to happen with my last interview. I went...

Have you ever had a date planted in your brain you can't get rid of? Well i have a nack for remembering dates. Good dates, birthdays, anniversaries, and bad dates....when Justin fell out of a two story window and can live to tell about it- Sept. 9, 1998 in College Park, Ga. Kristina busted out her front teeth from a bike accident, June 12, 2002 in Simpsonville, SC. Then there is the most famous date that is edged in my brain. June 5, 2000 when Jessica had to have surgery to remove a brain tumor. This story actually started in May of 2000 when Jessica started to have really bad headaches. We thought she was having them because she had broken her glasses. We were living in Bluffton, SC near Hilton Head, SC at the time. We took her to the ER on June 3rd that night when she started throwing up and she was not able to walk on her own. The doctor was baffled at first and then decided to run a CAT scan of her head. That is when he found a mass in the back of her head the size of a basebal...