Catching Up!

It's hard to believe I haven't written in four months. I just kind of got distracted. Since then, I've done two funerals of folks I never met (though I was told they were very nice.) I have also gone to Caruthersville to build a house, though I never got to do it, but instead cleaned out a trailor, and run two races, one for the Komen Foundation and the other for myself, doing the World-Wide Kick the Couch 5k. That's three races for the year so far, one to go to make my goal.
Since I last wrote, I have become the mother of a "tween," who is now a 6th-grader. She suddenly knows everything, and I have suddenly become the stupidest female alive. Her father is the dumbest/retardedest male alive. It's a wonder we can even get dressed, much less attend to her every whim. She has been grounded more in the last month than she has been in the last year.
My little boy continues to be "all boy," striving to be dirty most of every day, and now thinks he is part Pacific Islander, and has the right to wear shorts all year round, so he can run fastest and play kickball. I can't seem to convince him he is not Samoan or Tongan.
Soccer is thankfully over, so the kids can actually enjoy (hah!) family time more. I also caved in the last two months and let my daughter become a "cheerleader," to keep her active. She is afraid of gymnastics (I think she just won't practice) and so is "cheering" though the squad has no team to cheer for. At least it's something to yank when she gets in trouble: it seems to be the only thing she really is into right now, other than Radio Disney.
Turkey Day is coming, but we're avoiding the family get-together on my side after last year's debacle: my mom and my sister's mother-in-law got into it over the carving of the turkey (!!??!) and pretty much the day was shot. So, my better half and I are running a race that day, and going over to his parents' with knowledge that nobody will get p.o'd over anything there. (Even though we're the dumbest adults alive, we aren't crazy.)
Somehow during all this hubub I have to complete all the year-end paperwork too. Where has the year gone?