Well, better late than never

I say it every couple of months, but here I go again...I am here! Really I am here. I check all my friend's blogs and try to keep up to date but life happens. I am trying to be more disciplined about taking the time and writing down what is going on with our lives.

Here are some updates on the family:

Mr. A is doing pretty good. We are in a holding pattern currently for his back. He meets with the surgeon again on Friday to see where we go from here. He had a procedure a couple of weeks ago that was pretty brutal called a discogram. You think that with the word disco in it, it would be fun! That couldn't be further from the truth. They literally insert needles in to the discs of his back from his hip and then begin to fill it with fluid until he couldn't handle it anymore. It was basically to see what the pain level was. Again..not fun!

KA is thriving in high school. We couldn't be more proud of how easily she has adapted to the new environment. At her six week progress report she is averaging a 96% in everyone of her
classes. Now here comes for the really bragging part...the list of my 9th grader's classes in which she is holding a 96% - Intro to physics, Intro to biotechnology, Honors world history and honors English. I don't even think I was taking some of those classes in college let alone my first semester of high school! I am so proud of her!

AJ is doing pretty good in middle school. She is still adjusting to the work load and trying to balance different teachers. She isn't doing bad but it has been fun trying to get all her projects completed. Literally the first night of school she had to do a project that was trying to identify the socioeconomics of the city we live in along with the cultural and religious diversity of our neighborhood. ARE YOU SERIOUS??!! Really for a brand new 6th grader on the first day...why don't you just send all the parents homework because we are the ones who have to explain all of those terms in layman's terms so our children could even do the homework! Other than that she is doing well. I think we will be in a better groove come second semester once we help her establish new study habits.

Other than that, we have already had the flu hit our house! The girls both got the flu a couple of weeks ago. AJ tested positive for the flu and KA was told that she had the symptoms even though her test came up negative. Once the girls got better then Mr A who took care of them got bronchitis. We are finally doing better. I had a head cold, but luckily I didn't get anything they had.

Well I guess that is a quick recap of what has happened with us recently. I am off to help AJ with her latest project - a 3-D structure of the moon due tomorrow.