Ready to Read

We took Walker over to the school today for his Ready to Read testing. Ready to Read is a program that the school promotes along with its Parents as Teachers program. Walker flew through it and only missed one question. The lady performing the test commented on how he got ones that most kids miss, I'm so proud of him. He is so ready for school to start!

Jeremy has been home on vacation this week and he and Walker have been able to spend some good quality time together that is usually missed because of work. Walker has loved every minute of it and all the fun things that they have done. They have gone to lunch and went to see Monsters vs Aliens, I guess Walkers' favorite monster is Bob.

I wish that the weather would be a little bit better so we could all go bike riding, I'm trying to be patient for summer, but there is so much that I want to do. Jeremy bought me flower seeds that Im starting in the house, and some lettuce, tomato, and sweet peppper plants, Im so excited to see if I can actually grow them, as I'm notorious for killing plants.

Hope all who read this are doing well

Excitment in the eyes of Walker

Life lately has been a wirlwind of excitment for Walker. A couple of weeks ago I went over the the school and registered him for kindergarten, and yesterday he and I went to Kindergarten Round-up. Some good information for me about the school and got the chance to meet the principal and the kindergarten teachers. Walker got to go down to one of the classrooms and sit and play and color with the other kids. On the walk home (we just live across the street and through the church parking lot, so very nice) all he could talk about was "seeing HIS school" and how he can't wait for summer to be over so he can start. Im not sure that I'm ready for him to be so grown up. I miss the days of my little bug snuggling.

Lazy Days and begging for summer

Quite awhile since I posted last, and since Im no longer working I have no excuse other than I have been extremely lazy.

Apparently I am not a good salesperson, I discovered this a couple of weeks ago when I was let go from Qwest because I wasnt selling enough. So Im back to the stay-at-home mom thing for now, and loving every minute of it.

I always seem to forget how much fun it is to stay home and play and teach Walker. He is growing so fast and can't wait for school to start.  

I have re-discovered my sewing machine, and have been making pajamas and summer clothes and having a blast. I have tons of ideas and projects planned out I just need to sit down and make them. 

Short blog today, gotta go play catch up on laundry lol

What a week this has been. As I was coming home from work on Tuesday I saw this bright blue flash coming from behind my apartment building, my first thought was "Who is crazy enough to be lighting fireworks in February". Imagine my surprise when I pull in the driveway and find out that its not fireworks but the Transformer blowing up. It cut power to the building next to ours instantly, and we figured that it would just be a few hours and everything would be taken care of. Flash forward about 20 minutes......there are atleast 6 firetrucks, several cop cars, and 1 truck from Idaho Falls Power. We let them know that there was a horrible humming noise coming from the meters on the back of the building, the guy from the power company, rushed to the back and came back upfront and told us that they were cutting power to our building as well. No biggie we think and that it will be just a little while and everything would be back to normal. After about another 20 minutes we find out that there is lots of heat coming from the walls in our apartment and there is smoke in the apartment as well. They told us that we would have to evacuate for the night, so we went back into the house packed up what we needed for a night away from home and took off to Rigby (thank you Jana!). 

I got a phone call Wednesday morning from my landlord letting me know that the grounding wire that runs through our house smoldered and almost caught fire, she needed us to come move all the stuff out of the living room and the kitchen so they could cut into the ceiling and replace the grounding wire. Much thanks to Brooke for keeping an eye on Walker while I rushed back into town to begin moving all of our stuff. 

Wednesday was a blur of moving things and watching them rip into the ceiling in several places in the living room, kitchen, pantry, and the closet in our bedroom. We have managed to get most of the stuff back in place, but getting rid of the smoke smell has proven to be impossible, especially since there are still holes in the drywall and the burnt 2x4. Hopefully it wont take too long to get it all repaired and repainted so our lives can go back to some sort of normality.

I am grateful that it wasnt worse than it was, and that my family was safe. There were no major injuries and out of the 8 families that were evacuated no one was hurt. We are very lucky, the 4 families in the other building are still out of thier apartment, a fire broke out there because of the grounding wire as well, but it burnt up into the upstairs apartment, so there is a lot more damage and repairs that need to be done there.

So thats the big news from this Meek family for now....lets hope its not this "exciting" again for awhile.

Life at the Meek House

I rush home from work only to remember as I am walking in the door that Jeremy has to go back to work tonight to help get ready for inventory.......ewwww

So now that its almost 9 I have Walker in bed and refusing to sleep until "Daddy" gets home so he can have goodnight hugs and kisses, even though Jeremy gave him hugs and kisses before he left to go to work. I made me realize just how grateful I am that he is not working the overnight shift anymore. Life was rather crazy and family time was non-existant when he had that schedule. Walker and I spent most days trying to be as quiet as possible so Jeremy could sleep. Trying to fit family time in when schedules are completely opposite of each other was so hard. Ive decided that day time jobs are almost manditory when you have small children (atleast for us).

Its also that time of year when I get to sit back and think about what Ive accomplished in the last year as I get closer and closer to yet another birthday...ughhh.  My big birthday present to myself this year is rather lame but I will sure enjoy it....I managed to get 3 days off of work so I will get to have a really nice long weekend and bonus time to spend with Walker.

Life here for the most part is the same as usual, nothing exciting or extraordinary, its the same basic routine every day, we get up get ready for the day, Walker and I do some school time before I have to leave and then he heads next door to play and Im off to work. I do know that Walker LOVES when its time for Jeremy to come home. That is thier "special" time together...I have no clue what they do but they have fun doing it.

I do wish there were more hours in the day so I could get more done, my house is always in some sort of disarray and I am always behind on something. I just have to keep in mind that everyone here is healthy and happy and that is what is most important.

 

Well lets see, last time I managed to post was in November................where the heck does time go?

There are never enough hours in the day.

Everything around here is still pretty much the same as usual, Jeremy and I drag ourselves to work everyday and Walker gets to play all day long (where is the fairness in that?). 

I have decided that the life of a 5 year old is never ending laughter for his/her parents. The other day I got an email from my friend that watches Walker during the day telling me what happened when Walker threw a pencil at her daughter (groan) here is what followed when she asked him why he threw the pencil....

 Walker threw a pencil at Gaby and hit just below her eye :( He got a time out.
Although the throwing wasn't funny his response on why was:

M: Why did you throw the pencil
W: My body wanted to play
M: Is throwing pencils playing
W: no
M: So why did you throw the pencil?
W: My body was in freak out

I have to admit that when I got the email I was rolling with laughter, true the situation was NOT in any way funny and I am very sad to admit that my child throws things at other kids, but with that response I couldnt help myself. I do have to be grateful that my friend was able to hold it together long enough to put him in time out (well deserved I might add) .  

He does still manage to amaze me with the things that he learns, he can now write the entire alphabet (more or less copy the letters you write for him, but does really good), and wants to play store or resturant all the time.  A couple of weeks ago he walked up to me and said "mom today Im gonna pretend to be a teenager.....(pause and gasp from me)" (UM......NO). I managed to breathe after a few seconds and asked him why he wanted to pretend to be a teenager, his reply was priceless "Because teenagers can help cook and clean better". Lets just hope he keeps that mind set when he is really a teenager.

Some day I will have to sit down and figure out how to add pictures to my blog but until then anyone can go to picasa.google.com/jdmeek and check out all the pictures there that Jeremy has uploaded from the camera (thank you honey)

Once again it seems that Im just about as good at this as I am writing in my journal every night.  Since my last post, I have "Graduated" from the training program at Qwest and starting to feel like I am truly getting the hang of it. Getting phone calls from upset and very grumpy people all day long is truly taxing, but when that one call comes in that is someone that just needs to talk, and you can make thier day better by just listening....somehow it makes it worthwhile.

Walker will be turning 5 in just a couple of weeks and is very excited to be "FIVE", He amazes me every day with what he knows and how fast he learns. Just the other day I was trying to "relax" in taking a bath and just trying to let the stress of the day melt away, Walker came in the bathroom and sat down and talked to me through the shower curtain for 20 min...just about whatever crossed his mind. Some of the stuff he comes up with just boggles my mind, he gets smarter and smarter every day.

Jeremy and I had my mom and dad over for Thanksgiving, it was so nice to have them come over and see our new apartment and spend some time with us. Thanksgiving was a blast, Walker spent the whole day in the kitchen helping cook and asking a million questions about everything, I think that he is going to be quite the little chef.