This week

Well, I was very proud when I spoke with Brandon's teacher yesterday when I picked him to find out he is going to be Student of the Month for the first month of school!! Wow!! Evidently he's just doing great and being a good listener and learner! I'm so proud. Brett is also doing well in school. He's learning to write better which is great!! I love that creative side about him.
Yesterday, I had a very enjoyable visit with Grandma at her place! She was in a good mood and we had a good visit! She had just had a friend of hers from church, Betty visiting and I pulled in right as she left. She just got a kick out of that. It was cute how much she enjoyed that. Today is her 92nd Birthday. Wow!! She is doing well and has adjusted so well in the assisted living home! She is going to exercise groups and playing bingo. I'm so happy! I was concerned the first time I visited, but it was so good to see her doing so well this visit.
My parents and Aunts (Aunt Pat and Aunt Janice) have been working hard cleaning up Grandma's house. I got a couple things from the house. I got this little music box from Germany with a little boy in lederhousen overalls. It's not anything expensive, but it is something I always remember from Grandma's house as I was growing up. It's cute and memorable to me. I also got an old German Cock-coo clock that actually doesn't work. I got that knowing that my boys would like it. It is hanging up in my room though so it doesn't get messed up. Oh, speaking of Clocks! My Uncle Mel and Sue sent Grandma a clock for her Birthday. Grandma didn't really like it. It's got grapes on it and it's just not much too it. It's a nice Bulvia clock, but Grandma just didn't want it. So evidently, Sue called Aunt Pat and said "if Rhonda wants it she can have it." Wow! So I got a Bulvia clock too; that works. It just needs batteries and I need to figure out where to put it up.

Brandon and I have been playing a lot on a game on Facebook called Farm Town. Since it's on a social networking site, we've actually been hooking up with Debbie Bray on line and working on her farm too. It's been nice to chat with her more and keep in better contact with her as well. I love being around family! I've missed that over the years that we've all gotten so busy.
And speaking of family, my father, Ron and his wife, Ione are coming down next week from Washington for a visit. It's been 2 yrs since they've been down. Troy was saying it's a tough time for their family but he'd hope maybe we could get together at the same time so he can see us too. I must admit I'm more excited that Troy and his family may be there too than of Ron and Ione. Don't get me wrong they're family and I love them, but not as much as I love and miss my brother. Just being honest there.

I suppose I should write about the craziness that happened this week too. I was on the way to work on Tuesday and I had just gotten onto the freeway when the car in front of me swerved to try to avoid a flattened tire from a big rig in the road. They missed it, but it hit their back tire and flew up. It ended up hitting the front of my car. I kept going on to work cuz the car kept working. Well, as I got off the freeway and started off at the first light, I heard a big crazy sound from the car. Then I looked in the rear view mirror and noticed fluid on the road from where I was! Yikes. I ended up making it to work and parked backwards in the parking spot to look at what happened. Wow! It was definately worse than I thought!! My front bumper is all bent out, my license plate is torn off, my radiator is leaking and who knows what else. YIKES!! So I decided to call this one into my car insurance. Well, that was such a good experience with USAA. They called the tow truck, the rental car place and the car repair and set it all up for me. I just had to go at lunch and get a rental. Well, they offered me 1 of 3 cars; a Grand Marquis (too big), a Ford F150 (definately too big) or a Nissan Frontier truck with 4 doors. Well, I ended up picking the Frontier. My boys were so excited when they saw it. They love the truck. Brett loves to go sit in the back even when the truck is just sitting in the garage. I think he's a truck guy already. LOL Anyway, the damage to my car is about $2560. OY! I still have to come up with the $500 deductible, but there would've been no way I could afford the whole repair cost. Who knew a stupid flat tire could cause so much damage. The repair place said it would be until about Sept. 4th before it's done. So that's about close to 3 weeks of me having the rental. I'm gonna get spoiled riding up so high! Oh, well. It'll be good to have my car back.
Well, I better get going for now.