THELMA AND LOUISE aka MIMI AND ELSIE

Taken at the award ceremony part of today's event. Mimi won 2nd place for tampoline which is a shock in itself because she forgot her routine and mainly just jumped around. She recieved 3rd place for the double mini. Elsie won several awards herself, I'm just not sure what place.

Elsie and Emma also won a very nice "mom" raffle basket today. It was full of linens 'n' things. Last time it was Mimi who won the raffle basket.

PUNISHMENT

Every kid has their price. For the most part, Mimi is a super duper good kid. Now and then she has the ablity to test me and really work my nerves. This week was one of them. Nothing serious but she has become the "Princess of Stall and Sassy". Daphne says that Sara is the "Queen of Stall" so I call Mimi the "Princess of Stall and Sassy" since Mimi adores Sara and copies everything she does.

This has been a short week of school due to Staff Development for the Tahoma School District. So 2 tests were crammed into one day. Mimi stalled ALL WEEK long. I started sounding like a broken record and the wine at night was not helping to calm the nerves anymore.

Finally yesterday was the last straw when the little devil of the sassy attitude started to rear its ugly horns and as punishment, ALL ELECTRONICS are taken away. The time out chair is no longer useful. So that means no DVDs, computer, DSI, so on and so forth. She came close to losing out on a sleepover tonight.

So tonight on the way home from the competition, the little stinker tried to slip in a DVD on the car DVD player. That is until I turned it off and had to remind the girl of her punishment for all of the crap she dished out this past week. How fast they seem to conveniently forget. And as we are discussing her punishment, the child changes the subject......"Mom, do you know that it is night time in New York???" I think this child would make a great lawyer someday.

On a brighter note, she passed her tests with flying colors and recieved not one but two medals today. She won 2nd place in trampoline and 3rd in the double mini.

On top of all of this, the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and my cousin Miura is still missing. PHEW!!! What a week and it is still not over.

STILL LIKES MAPS

A GIRL AND HER DOG

BOUNCY HOUSE

Had a slight change of plans today. Instead of lunch at the Japanese
Main Buffet, we had lunch at Mickey D's and then it was on to the
Bouncy House in Black Diamond. Not bad for a couple of hours of fun
with Xander, Owen and their family. Price was not to shabby either.....
$2.00. Not it is time to go buy her shoes for the father/daughter
dance and take Butch to Lake Wilderness so that he can get his wiggles
out too.

IDIOT

Dad says that he called Mike our homestudy guy yesterday. Mike says that he now understands WHY Bal Jagat is asking him for a whole bunch of information. It's because the homeland security is being really nit picky about everything. WHICH IS WHAT MAUSAMI FROM BAL JAGAT HAS BEEN TELLING HIM ALL ALONG!!!! Doh! I guess Mike just figures that Bal Jagat has nothing better to do other than send out more work for him to do.......idiot.

Mausami has been sending us e-mails saying that homeland security is really nit picking everything and if there is any info that is missing they will send it back to us to be corrected. These are the same e-mails that she has been sending our homestudy guy Mike.

ARGH!!! If you want to know what my pet peeves are........it's idiots!

WILD WINDS

The weatherman said that us folks here in western Washington were to get some wind today and boy was he right. We not only got the wild wind but rain as well. Going to pick Mimi up from school today was like the scene from Mary Poppins where all of the nanny applicants were being blown away by the wind. The rain was falling horizontally instead of vertically. Screw the umberella. We all just came home soaked.

On a brighter note Mimi passed both the math test and spelling test with flying colors. I knew that little whipper snapper could do it.