All About the Argyles

I've been busy coaching these twelve adorable girls. We have so much fun and I love each and every one of them. Especially that cute blonde fourth grader and that beauitful brunette fifth grader.

McKinley was given an assignment to choose a photograph from home and then write a paper about it. She chose this one.: I It is from an outing with her Great Grandmother that she affectionately calls, "Gigi". Gigi has had Alzheimers for many years now. Watching her progressively get worse, forget things, repeat herself and now have her personality changed in relatively drastic ways has been a real challenge for Kiki (as well as all my children, to comprehend. There were many summers we would spend taking Gigi out on "outings" to give her a day away from the group home setting she moved to in 2008. The kids loved to taker her to lunch and then to get her hair done or maybe window shopping a the mall. Gigi loved it too. Now, unfortunately, it is too hard to do even that. Here is a memory of one of those outings in McKinley's own words: Am I having lunch with Gigi or Alzheimers? Will she remember my name? Maybe I should just listen. I basically blocked o...

Ok. I REPENT . I have been so negligent in blogging. I know noone really cares because none of you are really sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for my next post. But I do feel guilty as this is my way of keeping my family's history. I have just been heavily bombarded by other things that have had to take precedence. Good things. Meaningful things. Time consuming things. Some of them that I will blog about lata....Fact of the matter is: I know my limitations and so I had to sit back and evaluate what was most important and blogging got put on the back burner. I hope to do better in the coming weeks and plan to blog several times a week until I get caught up. I have been compiling a list of all the things I want to blog about so that I won't forget anything. Anyway.... When I went to Brady's first grade meeting with his teacher, she mentioned how much the kids love to get notes in their lunch boxes to read. This is a challenge for me because most days ...