14 Days Till Christmas

Only fourteen days till Christmas! We are all excited; we are having Mom's sister Amy and her new husband Gytis over.

We have the tree up, and some presents are already under the tree. The littles (mostly Sam) are having a hard time understanding that the presents have to stay wrapped and under the tree.

We are also already doing our traditional "Stocking Shopping." That is when we all put little folded pieces of paper with our names written on them in a hat, each of us in turn takes a name out. Then each of us go out to eat with Dad and we buy a present for the person we got. The rule's are don't get anything too expensive and do not tell who you got.

I am happy about the person that I got, I can't give names because that person will probably read this post.

One Crazy Week

This week is going to be a crazy one. We have piano practice, band practice, Mom's spinning guild, a lock-in at our church, Wednesday night church, one of Grace's piano recitals, Grace's juries at Blair School of Music, our band concert, and Grace, Bekah and I also have a piano recital.

I was begging my Mom to let us off on some if not all our school this week, she is letting us off some school work.

Another thing that is also going to make this week crazy is that I was invited to go see a friend's band recital at her school, Mom says I might go. The friend also takes percussion at her school, she is my only friend that is public schooled.

The only thing that I am really looking forward to this week is the lock-in at our church. (you can't really say I am looking forward to my recitals, I'm looking forward to them being over) For those who don't know what a lock-in is it is where some kids get together in a building and play games the entire night, last Spring was my first lock-in.

I am very nervous about my concert and recital, wish me luck!

P.E.

Every week Luke, Grace, and I go to a home school P.E. group; it is just for teens and it is very fun!

Our P.E. group was started by a girl named Amy and her mother. They had just moved to our town and Amy did not know anyone. They started it so that Amy could meet some teens her age. At first the group was very small, but it grew till it had lots of kids in it.

Amy has now graduated and is at college but the group is still going. It goes during the Fall, Winter, and Spring, not during the Summer though because it is too hot.

We meet at a park when it is sunny and warm, and we go to a gym when it rains or if it is too cold. I love going to P.E. All my friends go to it. My favorite games to play are kickball, ultimate frisbee, and link.

Last week we made up our own version of ultimate frisbee. We were in the gym and we put soccer goals at each end of the gym, to score you had to get the frisbee between the goalie and into the goal, it was very fun.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

This Thanksgiving was a very nice one. Our grandparents come every year for thanksgiving and for Ben and Sam's birthday- which is in the same week as Thanksgiving.


When my grandparents come we call it Thanksmas because they bring all our Christmas gifts with them and we open them that week. they visit our cousins in New Jersey for Christmas.


This year we also invited our piano teacher and some friends that we had not seen for a few years. We had a monster turkey and lots of other stuff, I was not hungry till two days afterward.


We went shopping the next day. I got a lot of clothes that I had needed but when I got home I put on my new skinny jeans, the problem was that I am almost too tall for them. Great.

Hair cuts and dye

The only colors my hair has ever been is: blond (when I was younger than five), brown (age five and up), and now red (hair dye). After I turned thirteen I begged my mom to let me dye my hair. Finally one day when Mom was errand running she came home while I was on Facebook, walked up to the computer, and put something on the desk. I looked and there was red hair dye. I dyed my hair and when I walked outside it looked like my hair was bright red but inside it looked dark red. I have just recently dyed it again the same color I really like it.

My mom has not had the same good experience with hair dye. The first time she dyed her hair it was dyed a brown color but it turned purple after a while. The reason she dyed it was because it was getting some gray. A few months passed and gray was creeping in again and her hair had not been cut in a while. The day before New Year my mom and I were out shopping and mom passed this little hair cutting place. She decided to go inside and get her hair cut because she wanted her hair to look nice for a New Years Eve party that night. The lady gave my mom badly cut old-lady hair and puffed it a lot. Mom tried to fix it a few weeks later by dying it black but it just made it worse. Mom looked bad, she was not happy.

Now her hair is growing out and the black is going away but now her hair looks like "Mr. Fantastic" from the "Fantastic Four."

Little Brothers

My littlest brothers are so cute; Jack is three, he is brown haired and has big brown eyes, Sam is two, he also has brown hair but he has hazel eyes.

They are so funny. Sometimes when we take away something that Sam wants, he makes a hitting motion and says "bad boy!"

We often get movies from "Netflix". Once we got the movie "Flushed Away". We had been telling Jack that we were going to watch it that night, so at dinner when Jack said the prayer it was like this; "Dear God, please bless da food an thank you for mommy an daddy an thank you for fushed away, Amen."

The one thing that makes Jack and Sam different than other little kids is that they have a metabolic disorder. I have no idea how to explain what that is. If you want to understand it go to my moms blog Her blog is mostly about Sam and Jack.

What I do understand is that if Sam and Jack's blood sugar gets too low they get severe hypoglycemia and that means they have to go to the ER. They have lots of medicine that they have to take at meal times.

They are still very sweet little boys and there is nothing to stop them from having a normal life.

Our Pets

Our family has had lots of pets since I was born. We have had two dogs, one bird, two rats, four rabbits, and two cats.

The four rabbits are all dead. The first rabbit was named Cottontail, it was a very sweet rabbit. One day it got out of its cage and started happily hopping round the yard. Our dog saw it and was walking up to it when Cottontail saw the dog and had a heart attack.

The other three rabbits we got from the same person at a fair. Two of them died from a sickness after two weeks. The other one, Peter Rabbit, had a very happy life. We did had a problem with a neighbor taking him out of the cage petting him and then walking away and not shutting the cage door.

The bird was for my birthday, I named her Tweedy. We had to give her away because she made the house smell, but I did teach her to stand on my finger. Once we had some friends over and one of them wanted to put her finger in so the bird could stand on it, she opened the door too wide and Tweedy flew out and then under the bed, my brother Luke got bit but we got her back in the cage.

My brother Luke has had two rats, they both got sick but they were fun. Every time I told one of my friends that we had a rat they would get grossed out, but as soon as they saw how pretty the rat was they would want to hold it. Both rats were brown and white, and they were both named after a Pokemon. One of the rats loved to chew through his wire cage. Once he got out and was exploring the house when the same dog that scared the rabbit, found the rat, picked him up, and took him to the dining room where we were eating breakfast. The dog went up to the table, dropped the rat and looked at us as if to say "can I eat it?" we said no.

The two dogs we have had were both named after brand food, Hershey, and Mellow Yellow. Mellow is the same dog that scared the rabbit and caught the rat. She was a very sweet dog, half siberian husky and half mutt, she was a very pretty yellow color.

The other dog Hershey was a Labrador. He was a very nice but wild dog that invisible fencing would not work on. If he heard us playing in the front yard we would know by sound he was coming to play, YELP! (him leaving the back yard) YELP! (him entering the front yard). We had to finally give him away because he was so full of energy that it was mean to tie him up.

Lastly the two cats, one named Linus (from the peanuts cartoon) and Lewis. Linus is a cat we got from a friend, Lewis is a stray who Linus invited to dinner and never then left. They are very sweet cats- the neighbors are starting to leave out food for them, so they are now fat cats!

Halloween

This halloween we went to our church's first Trunk or Treat, it was very fun. Trunk or Treat is when the people of the church park in the parking lot and open their trunks, they sit in the trunk and pass out candy.

I went wearing a red and black dress with a flared sleeve, and vampire teeth. My friends were a witch, a 1970's pop girl, and a gangster. Three of my family did not go; my sister Rebekah who is sick, my Dad who stayed to take care of Bekah, and my brother Luke who needed to practice for a test.

I left Trunk or Treat with my friend Olivia's family, they were going to a haunted wood. My friend and I did not go in because 1. she had gone through a week ago. 2. I hate haunted woods. We waited outside with a friend who runs a concession stand with her older sister, their cousin owns the haunted woods. My friend Beth who works at the concession stand had gotten a wig for halloween and she was wearing it, it looked so stupid that and Olivia and I could not look at her without laughing.

When I got home from the Haunted Woods all the little kids were in bed, my Dad had "Ghost Busters" turned on, my brother was still practicing for the test, and Bekah was still sick.

Hiking With Friends

Recently, Luke, and Grace, and I went on a three day hiking trip with our church youth group. It rained off and on for all three days but was still very fun.

The first day we drove to the hiking place, put our packs on and got on the trail. That was the hardest day. We hiked six miles that day. That night we got to the camp site and set up our tents. I shared a tent with two girls. After dinner the two girls and I were feeling tired so we said goodnight and got in our tent. However, once we were in a sleeping bag we got bored so we started chatting about stuff. We started talking about horror movies and one of the girls told us in detail about a very scary movie, I started feeling creeped out so I said why don't we talk about something happy. The girl who was telling about the movies immediately said, "Butterflies!" Weirdly enough we did start talking about butterflies.

The second day we hiked around three miles. It was a lot easer for me because the first day I carried a tent attached to my pack, but the second day someone else carried the tent. Plus we got to the camp site quicker that day- where we sang around the fire, and played cards in our tent.

The last day we put our packs in the car and hiked to see a few waterfalls, then we got in the cars and went home.

It was very fun but as soon as we got home I jumped in the shower.

Hyper Girls

Last Sunday night, I invited two little girls to sit with me, one was a girl that I baby sit, and the other was a visitor who was a friend of the little girl. Lots of things happened.

The little girl was using my note pad to draw pictures of people with giant ears, or pig noses, or weird hair. She was giving these people names like "Mr. Squishy pants" and whispering loudly to her friend about the funny noses and silly names.

The visitor had a colorful striped sweater on and at the beginning of the service she decided to take it off, it was tight on her so when she pulled her shirt came up, too high up.

The little girl with my note pad started writing the ABC's, one giant letter on each page, with a pen. I was not very happy to find out how many blank pages there were left.

The last thing was while the visitor was looking the other way the little girl started measuring who was taller.

That was a memorable night.

Band Day

We do lots of things every week, today is band class. My sisters and I all play different instruments, my younger sister Rebekah plays saxophone, Luke (my older brother) used to play sax but he quit, my older sister Grace plays tuba (if you dont know what a tuba is it is a big instrument that plays deep notes), I play percussion. That means any type of bell or drum.

I used to play flute, that was pretty fun. Once, when I was in a performance playing flute and was placed right in front of the percussion players, the girl next to me and I started joking that we were going to put ear plugs in because the drummers were so loud. Now, I find out that is exactly what drummers say about flutes.

Band is very fun, but to do well you have to practice. I don't like to practice very much. I mean every now and then I get a good practice in but mostly I play songs that are fun to play, or songs I am really good, at or I day dream about that party tomorrow, or what I'm going to wear to church, or that funny line in that movie.

I need help.

About Me

This blog is about my teen years, I am 13 and I am home schooled, we have three pets; one fish, and two cats. We are a Christian family, I have lot's of good friends and four brothers, and two sisters.

I love to chat but I hate to talk on the phone, I like to read action/adventure books, I like; comedy, romance, or action movies. I hate anything that scares me. I once went to a haunted wood with some friends and I saw a shadow and ran out.