AWOL

Wow...I am a lousy blogger. I have to admit that since I started Facebook I no longer think about blogging. Facebook is short and simple. No long thought out posts there. I guess I am just lazy!

Nothing new or unusual at the Beacom's house since Christmas. Jerry's job is slow and so now he is delivering Papa Johns Pizza a few evenings and some weekends. We are confident that his clientele will build eventually but it's making it hard to pay bills till that time comes. I'm rather tired of hearing about the stinkin economy actually. On the good side....it is good that he made the change of jobs last summer as HSBC (his former employer) just announced they will be closing EVERY branch office in the US. I'm glad he made the change then and didn't wait.

The kids are busy with band and puppets. Molly has been skiing a lot this winter, thanks to her ski pass, and even tried her hand at snowboarding last Sunday. She was stiff and sore but was on the black diamonds by the end of the day and claims to have liked it. Abby took ski lessons in Jan and now joins Molly in loving the sport. She hopes to save enough $$ so she too can get a ski pass next year.

All three kids have been working on the puppet team this year. Jared is a jr member as you need to be 10 to join. He gets prop jobs on the puppet shows. We just went to Chicago last weekend to a puppet festival. All 5 of us went and it was fun to watch other teams perform and learn some new stuff at workshops.

Jerry and I are gearing up for the mens and womens CRW's comming up in a few weeks. We are the 2nd assistants for the director positions this year. That means in 2 years we will be in charge as directors for the weekends. SCARY!! At least we have 2 years to learn our jobs. PTL! I am busy trying to get cheesecakes made and frozen for the weekend. I need to make 10-11 cheesecakes to serve over 100 people for the Saturday evening meal. I am making regular, mocha, choc truffle, turtle, lemon chiffon, choc.chip cookie dough and raspberry swirl. :-)

Time to get back to the laundry and school work! Maybe I'll do better at posting.

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy new Year

We have survived yet another holiday season. This year was busy but fun. Between puppet shows, band concerts parties and travel the month of December seems like a blur. The kids performed in 4 puppet shows the first week of Dec. Two band concerts and another puppet show the second week. We were blessed to have the Steed family(visiting from China) stay with us part of the third week and then off to Omaha on the week of Christmas. There seemed to be lots of snow and lots of bad weather in December too.
For New Years, Molly babysat for the neighbors so we took Abby and Jared out for pizza and then bowling. We went with our friends the Buchheit's and had lots of fun.
School starts tomorrow and I am not ready! I feel like I need a vacation from vacation. :-) It's going to be slow going this week as I have surgery on Wed. The kids are going to be my hands and feet for a little while. Should be interesting.