Beautiful Weekend. . .

Another adventure in the little moments.  Spent Saturday watching Big T's team win two more games for their tremendous 9-1 season.  We also did a drive through to another small campus for Sprat.  We have to tour when we can.
Our youth were in charge of our Sunday worship yesterday.   They did an awesome job and our youth leaders are the best.  Sprat read the Liturgy and I must brag just a bit, he did wonderfully.   I was a very proud mama.  The younger kids took over as ushers and everyone sang.  Big T was an usher and he reluctantly sang too.    Yes, their Sunday outfits are their own hand made tie dye shirts.  They made these after the grave stone cleaning on Good Friday.
I spent this morning with Big T at the dentist, he had to have a tooth pulled.  Not a happy time at our house.  He did well though, he took it like a trooper.   Milkshakes and no school, poor fella.  He is trying to milk (no pun intended) this tooth for one more day of no school.  

Mom Babbles. . .

Here are my random thoughts on this past week and the week to come.    I was honored to be inducted in to the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society on Friday.  I was shocked and thrilled to be recognized for my school work these last two years.   My cap on my implant fell out Friday night and that meant an emergency visit to my oral surgeon on Saturday.   This week will be crazy with dentist appointments and a flury of antibiotics and pain medication.  Ughhhh
Mom's do not get sick days though, so kid duty will continue.  Luckily, other than needing a driver, my kids are self sufficient.   The driving may be tricky this week. 
I will be knee deep studying for finals this week too.   Looking forward to Christmas break with the kidos and some down time.   Good news is my tree is up and decorated, bad news I have not put up all of my ornament boxes yet.  I will add that to my list of things to do this week.  I will be baking this week too,  check back on Wednesday for some Christmas goodie recipes. 

The Dentist

Since the boys were out of school yesterday I had decided that would be the day for their dentist visit.  This is a new dentist for them and Jack was not happy because it said "Pediatric Dentistry" on the sign.  He said I am too old to be going to a pediatric anything.  He said 0-12 was a child but that since he turned 13 a whole almost month ago he is now an adult.  Jeeeeezzzz!!!  They do not go to a pediatrician and never have.   They have always gone to a family practice physician so the whole pediatric thing never came up till now.  I tried to tell him that he could go to a pediatric dentist till he was at least 18 maybe even older.  Not sure about the dentist part on the age thing.  Anyway he was not happy and sat with a scowl on his face in the waiting area.
They called us back and they put the boys in the same room, another sore spot for Jack about going to the same place as Thomas.   The room was quite big and had two dental chairs and flat screen TV's suspended over each chair.  The hygienist set Jack up with head phones and started "Shrek 2" for him to watch while she worked on Thomas.  Thomas got to watch "Horton Hears a Who" while she worked on his teeth.  The boys had good check ups even though they had not seen a dentist in a while. 
These ladies at this practice were great!  I really liked the office and the staff the entire set up was great.  Jack was even ok with it after everything was said and done.   They took a picture of the boys with their dentist and gave it to us to take home.  I have to say it was a good experience for us all.  I even got a phone call this morning to make sure the boys had a good experience and we did not have any questions.  That is customer service.