Paul & Emily in PTC (Peachtree City)

Hello Paul and I are doing great! This was are first Halloween in PTC. the kids were really cute. It is 62 outside so no one was in a coat. They all came in thier golf carts. boy I wish I had that when the kids were little. It was great. Today I went to atlanta and found a really nice yarn shop. The area was really nice and there was a lot of interesting stores around it. I picked up some yarn for a sweater to make for Tracy. We saw a really cute sweater with colorful people on it I am going to make her one simlar to the one we saw. Paul is going to Michigan in a few days. He will be driving a car up to tim to use while he is at school. His car lease is done and he needs a car while finishing school. Peter will be coming to visit in PTC on Novemeber 17th then ride down to Florida where Tracy flies in later. Tim will be alone for Thanksgiving as he can't get enough time away from school and he is going to his 10th high school reunion. We will sure miss him. I am happy Peter will see the new house. I miss not having the kids see the house yet. but they will all soon I hope. Will fall is here all the hard wood trees are turned into beautiful color now. the big georgia pines are really green right next to them it is really beautiful. They are red yellow and orange right in the middle of deep dark green. The weather is great too. this weekend was in the high 70's. Paul and I took a great ride to a civil war battle sight we enjoyed it very much. It was the last stand before the union pushed in to burn down atlanta. There is a lot of history down. here. Well take care everyone love em

My First Blog!

Hi Everyone!
Tracy, what a great idea to make a family blog! Happy Halloween! I made the boys ghost pancakes for breakfast to celebrate the day. Trick or treating was on Sunday here and the kids, aka Elvis (Isaac) and a punker rocker (Adam) had lots of fun. Today has already been a whirlwind. I volunteered in Isaac's class this morning, ran to my mom's place to reprogram her thermostat (she left today for Greece!) and had to run an errand for Adam's teacher. This afternoon I'm helping in Adam's class -- I'll be helping 20 first graders carve pumpkins! I'll definitely bring my camera. : )
Enjoy the day! Joy

Royal Oak News

It's been a long day today. I accidentally set the clock wrong during the daylight saving time switchover which caused me to arrive at work later than I expected. We had a professional learning community gathering - a process and philosophy of school reform that I have been leading at school. It's quite a challenge - but in 20 years I am sure it will have been worth it.
"PLC" was followed by a 90 minute lesson and review on ionization energy, electronegativity, and atomic radius in the chemistry courses I teach. Tutored kids at lunch and then subbed for an English teacher who was out during my prep hour. Then off to Portable Church Industries - we are in a busy season - as many churches will be starting up for the Christmas season. I am taking a minute now to write my entry before I head home. I wonder if I will be greeted by the skunk that is now living under my deck. I just started spraying a rodent deterant around the deck a couple of days ago and seems to have the skunk in a frenzy. In fact on Sunday he (and a few of his other animal friends) managed to get into the closed garbage cans and scatter the trash all over my driveway. What a stinker (pun intended)!

Family's First Blog

Hello Everyone,
I hope you are doing well and that you have found the blog easily. This is a private blog (not open to the rest of the net) that I would love for all of us to use - to share about what is going on in our lives and be a source of encouragement to each other. I am in the process of sending out invitations to the whole family to become contributing members. If you haven't been asked yet - your invitation is coming soon. The blogger site only allows me to have a select number of open invites at a time. Anyone in the family can of course post a comment to any of the posts. I can't wait to see what comes of this.

Love you all, Tracy