Amidst the craziness that is the last 3 weeks of a junior high school year, Blythe and I have decided to get out of town and take a quick trip up to Palestine, TX to visit Bythe's family. Monday is Melissa's birthday, so we felt that it would be a good weekend to get out here, even if does mean a three hour car ride after work on a busy Friday.
School feels very busy right now because we are getting ready for our end of the year Pop Show on Tuesday evening. We've had a great year, so it is great to see the kids finally be able to relax and sing some stuff that they enjoy a little bit more. Although this is only my first year there, we have decided to do things a bit differently than they have done at Goodson before. In stead of using the generic accompaniment cd's that come with the sheet music, we decided that it would sound better, and be a great experience for our kids to get to sing with a live 'band'. So, somehow, I was able to convince two good musician friends of mine, Long Le and David Lerner, to come play with us. Now, instead of using the cheesy cd's, our kids get to sing with a live piano, bass, and drums. Needless to say, they were VERY excited to hear it for the first time yesterday. Combine that excitement with the fact that we are three weeks away from school being let out for the summer, you can understand why Blythe and I needed to take a trip to a quiet East Texas!!!
While we're up here the plan is to go out to a lake today to hang out and grill some burgers and hot dogs and stuff! I can't wait! Hopefully, I can convince the birthday girl, Melissa, to get out her camera today and get some pictures of the little man hanging out with his little cousin, Gracie!
A Bit of Upsetting News:
Our little dog, Gizmo, went outside last night through the doggy door and apparently wanted to walk back to Houston. At least, that's me thinking positively. :( My clock says it is 9:07am right now, so from what I can remember about last night he's now been out for about 12 hours. The scariest part is that in this neighborhood, there are a ton of dogs that were out just running around free last night. So my thought is that he probably went out, heard the other dogs and went to check it out, then got scared and didn't know how to get back to the doggy door that he went out of. So, we'll keep looking for him through this weekend while we're up here, but I don't really feel very good about our chances of going back home with him this weekend.
I've never handled losing pets very well (ask my mother!). If a pet dies, that's part of life, but losing a pet, and not knowing where they are scares me to death. I'll try to stay positive and keep thinking that he went exploring and happened to find his version of that "farm where he can run and play outside all day long" that everyone always tells thier son or daughter about when they are upset about losing a pet. Although for Gizmo, that would be more like him finding a tv that he can bark at all day, and finding a mosquito or fruit fly that he can chase and actually have a chance of catching this time!!! Let's keep up hope.
Peace Out,
Luke
No comments:
Post a Comment