A letter to Evan

Dear Evan,
We just came from your parent teacher conference at school and I am so very proud of you. Yes, I'm proud because of your good grades and your passion for learning but more than that, I'm proud of the young man that you've become. When I hear your teachers tell me that you are well-rounded, kind and loved by all your classmates, my heart swells with pride and my eyes fill with tears. What did I do to deserve you? There are many days that I struggle with being a parent and I feel as though I'm doing it all wrong but then a day like today happens and I realize that I must be doing something right, at least from time to time!

Lots of love,
Mom

So proud

Written by one of Evan's classmates. Click on the photo to read it. Click on it again to get it really big!

Halloween 2010

Halloween has come and gone. Evan starts talking about it in the summer (it used to be February) and it's all Halloween all the time until the morning of November 1st. Then the talk is Christmas. A little Thanksgiving talk but mostly Christmas. He wrote out his Christmas list today. Anyway, back to Halloween. His first idea for a costume was a zombie army guy. I said he needed to be something different because last year he was a zombie businessman. I wanted one more year of something fun and not gross!! Thankfully our trip to the Army Navy store convinced him (with some prompting from me AND a screening of part of Top Gun) that it would be cool to be a fighter pilot. I found the glasses at Wal-Mart and he borrowed Liz's dog tags from the Air Force. He looked at himself in the mirror and said, "yep, I'm hot".

Mike and I actually went to an adults only party on Saturday night. Can I say I was excited for it all week? My friends Keith and Alex have a huge garage w/a projection TV and they have a gathering every away OSU game. Lots of food and alcohol. My two new favorites-blueberry vodka w/blueberry and pomegranate juice AND Frosty shots. Chocolate pudding, whipped cream, Bailey's and vodka-frozen. OMG. I had one about 5 minutes into our arrival and the headache I had all day disappeared. So, I thought I better have a few more just to make sure the headache was gone. :-) You can't beat spending time with old friends.