The Holidays

Wow, it's already a week into 2008, lots of news.

My cousin had an adorable baby girl a few days before Christmas. Her name is Marley and she is a little butter ball cutie. From the pictures, it looks like Marley has lots of dark hair and is way too cute ... she is in southern California so I hope to see her before she becomes a young lady :) I went out for Darcy and Rubin's wedding which was on Valentine's Day 2004, my aunt and I went and we had a ball. I made a little sweater before she was born, I hope that it will fit, it looks so tiny!

We had a nice anniversary, at the last minute, we went to Atlantic City and were comped with a suite, what a cool place, there was a whirlpool big enough for a crowd and a bed that had to be a double sized king, when we got back home, our king sized bed looked like a crib. Did manage to hit a small jackpot, which made the next day a great shopping experience! Love the outlets.

Christmas was nice, laid back, now that the kids are all older, we don't have a reason to get up at the crack of dawn. I kind of miss that part of the holiday.

Spent New Year's Eve at my sister's house playing cards with her and a few of the nieces and their friends. It was fun and I only lost $9 the whole night.

My niece, a Rugers alumni, went to the Rutgers game yesterday with her boyfriend, they had a sign that said castrate Ball State which made it onto ESPN. You can see it on UTube. This is the second year that RU has been in a bowl game, last year it was in Arizona and Heather went to that one, too. Now she is in grad school at TCNJ and no doubt by next year will be teaching somewhere and unable to travel for the team.

On the school front, the principal freed up some money and I am getting a new copy machine and printer along with some much needed non-fiction books! I was out one day in December and some one 'helped' out trying to fix the printer and broke it beyond repair. The copier is one that was a throw away about 10 years ago that we've been holding together with spit and bobby pins. He also found 6 working computers to replace those that no longer work. He is such a great guy, we are all hoping that he will stay with us for a while, he's retired and is just filling in, whoever takes his place will have large shoes to fill.

Friday two of my library helpers and I moved out all the broken computers, rearranged the tables and cleaned up the library. It looks so good, and once the 6 computers show up there will almost be enough for a class to use. Also wrote two mini-grants through Donor's Choose and one was fully funded, the other is almost funded. I love my job and can't wait until there is an opening in one of the high schools where I feel that I can really do more for the kids.

On the knitting front, I made a friend a felted hat that fit me fine, but was too small for her so I made her another. Hope it fits. Pictures to follow.

Until next time..