Life on Planet Caddick

This year went by so fast. Seriously, I'm not sure where it went but here we are - the last day of 2011. So, I decided to share some lessons I learned this year. Yes, at 44 you can still learn lessons! Who knew? Taking three classes per semester is perfect. Four is too many and I'll never make that mistake again. Even when I thought I was being a bad mom, as witnessed by this blog post , I wasn't. Because when it came down to it and my son really needed me I took the hit on my grades and stayed with him. I hate paperback books. Not the newer kind that are almost the same size as hard cover books. The ones that are mass market paperbacks, you know the tiny ones. The print is so freakin' small - really, who can read those? Sheesh  Marine Biology rocks. If I had any thoughts of being a scientist this is the way I'd go.  Signing up for the blog every day challenge was crazy stupid. Sometimes you don't have anything to say and you blog just because.

Christmas rocked this year! I finally got the coveted iPhone (thanks honey!) and a desperately needed camera. Zach, as usual, made quite the haul too, but honestly the best family gift we got was the Kinnect! Erik still hasn't indulged, but Zach and I pulled our goofiness out (not hard) and danced and adventured! Of course, Zach didn't go to sleep at all on Christmas Eve. Makes it really hard to pull a Santa. But, mission accomplished anyway. But honestly, he didn't last too long after present opening. I would put a picture here, but I downloaded them onto my iPad and can't get it to upload, even though I'm on my iPad. *sigh* Hopefully once I get my iCloud all set up! The end of 2011 is quickly approaching and we've had a very good year here at the Caddick house. We have wonderful family and friends that have helped us when we needed it. Without them we wouldn't have survived some of the craziness, so thank you all! Until next time ~ Kris

I don't have a lot planned for today. All my shopping is done. I'm waiting for my cookie dough to set so we can make Santa's Cookies, I'm just kind of hanging out. So, I thought I'd share a story and some pictures with you. This is the story about how a 5th grader got to pick his own look for school picture day. Had three shirt choices, white, light blue, and navy. He had a few background choices, gray, blue, red, purple, green. He did not have a pose choice - that was up to me (gotta keep some control, right?!). What mom wanted - a nice haircut, navy blue shirt, gray background. What Zach wanted: well, we'll leave that for the pictures - first black and white, and sepia (please note the crazy hair "I like it that way.") um okay - it's your picture... It's not like these are going to go away - especially now that I put them online.... And the full wonderful color version: Kind of hurts your eyes, huh? Is there a lesson in al

Almost two months since my last post. Daaaang. Yes, stretch that out to about four seconds! Yeah, that's how it's been around here lately. Oh, and let's make it worse because I don't even have any pictures to post either! Who's rockin' the blog world now? Sheesh - I'm lame. So, what's been going on around here? Well, I finished my semester - which means I've been back in school for a year now! I'm going to transfer to WGU (Western Governor's University) to finish my degree. Hopefully I will have all the kinks worked out and be able to start back in February. Zach is back home doing school. But he's not homeschooling. Let me make that clear - we are not homeschooling, we are doing public school at home. For anyone who does homeschool you will understand the difference. For everyone else - we are doing the South Carolina Virtual Charter School. It's a lot less fun than actual homeschooling, since we don't get to pick our curri