Day 44- Happy Happy joy joy

Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy joy!
Today I am feeling rather happy! This is a vast improvement over yesterday's prevalent feeling, which was rage. But we don't need to get into that. No, today I am happy. Happy happy happy!

Oooh, bragging time!! Children are fabulous! Mine make me sooo proud. Let's start with Jacob. Ok, remember that I mentioned that he had a big math test last week? Well, he got a 100%! That's right! 100% correct, ladies and gentlemen. Not one thing wrong. And only one other person in the whole class achieved this honor. How do I know? Well, to highlight this fabulous achievement, his teacher had him and the one other person stand on their desks!! Jacob was so pleased! He was telling me about it, and his face was all lit up and smiley. He said he was really proud of himself. How cool!!! I have to say, I'm feeling rather better about my homeschooling abilities now, as well. He had me worried for a bit there, but once he was comfortable with the way school worked, he has been really showing what he knows. Oh, and he got a 100% on his spelling test today, too!! What a week!

On to my little sweet baboo, Julia. She has mastered the meaning of the words "big" and "little"! Ok, those of you who don't have one and a half year olds may not understand why this excites me, but I have actually taught her something this week, like, on purpose, and she really gets it! That's cool. Also, she has now gone potty twice! Like actually sat on the potty and peed! And wiped, and washed hands, and everything! Again, you really have to be in these shoes to appreciate my excitement, but, believe me, it's also very cool.

Joshua, well, he always impresses the heck out of me. If you know me, you probably know that I think he is basically one of the smartest kids who ever lived, especially in the area of writing and english. So the new thing that I am proud of in him is his soccer skills. I talked about this in an earlier post, so I won't go into details now, but suffice it to say that his newfound sportiness is an unexpected and rather exciting revelation to me.

Oh, oh, and Jade finally turned over and is no longer breach! Even she is achieving great things! And she's not even born yet!

So you see, all my kids seriously rock. It's just a fact.

I just looooove children, don't you? Lots and lots of children, each bringing a bit more wonderfulness to the universe. Aaahh! Happy happy joy joy!

So are you sick to your stomach yet?

Ok, it is Friday, which means it's time for another addition of "Jess talks about her Thursday night shows!" I knew you'd be thrilled. Feel free to skip all of this stuff. In fact, if you haven't yet watched Grey's Anatomy, Survivor, and CSI from last night, I seriously recommend it. On Survivor, the season of the idiots continued as the team that won reward decided to kidnap one of the strongest males on the other team for the day. Why is this completely idiotic? Well, the reward was a big meal, which means that they basically guaranteed that they would be providing the other team with a well-rested, well-fed strong male with whom to win the immunity challenge. Duh, people. I hope they thanked their lucky stars when said challenge turned out to not be too physically taxing, and they still eked out a win. Interestingly, this same strong male, by the name of, um, was it Rob? Something like that. Anyway, he-who-we-will-refer-to-as-Rod ended up being voted out anyway, so it was not that big a mistake. His was the first vote-off I could actually understand since, let's face it, he was a complete A_ _. Really an odd and annoying guy. Full of himself, too. It was quite pleasing to see the back of him. The only bad thing about it was that I started rooting for his team, after the other team committed the unforgivable sin of voting off the Christian radio lady for no good reason, and therefore his being voted off resulted in my new favorite (or least hated) team being down two players. Bugger.

Grey's was, um, forgettable, frankly. I'm glad Meredith is beginning to get along better with her sister, and was quite saddened to think that her sister may have thought she would purposefully kill her mother, whom Meredith actually loved very much. Derrick gets an A, Yang gets a D-, George and Izzy both get F's, I feel horrible for poor Callie who does not deserve any of this, so I guess I give her a B and, basically, really old guy was probably the only one worth paying any attention to, so he gets an A+. And what was up with Karev? He's been so much better lately. Why did they have him say such a mean thing to George? It seemed rather random and unnecessary, actually. Oh well. I'm just not thrilled this season.

CSI, well, was a bit creepy, but still entirely too predictable. I told my husband basically exactly what had happened by about a third of the way through the show. Not much mystery to these murders. I will say the very end did shock me, though. It was really nice to be shocked by something, as everything else these shows are producing is really boring me this season. I'm seriously thinking about branching out into other shows. We'll see...

Ok, well, I must work on my dinner now, so TTFN.