Sick Spell

Yep! That's right! I'm suffering from a miserable cold - or so we think... My mom hasn't taken me to the doctor yet, so we don't have an accurate diagnosis. All the symptoms are leading to a cold - Drainage, caughing, fever, dizziness, and a headache. It's so hard to sleep... I get so hot in my bed and I wake up three or four times each night. I really don't want to miss school tomorrow for two reasons: I get to go on a limo ride tomorrow because I sold a lot of magazines for my school, and it will be hard to catch up with the homework that gets piled on top of me each day. I don't want to go tomorrow for one reason: I have to run the mile, and with this terrible cough, I 99% sure that I'll pass out - right now just because of the cough my head feels like I just ran a mile.

Right now it looks as if I'll go to school tomorrow, but things can always change.

Friday!!!

You don't know how excited I am to have even a very short break from school... it tires me out! I have a quiz tomorrow in math, so please pray that I would do well - I'll do the same! Today we had to go up to a doctor's appointment for Carter, because he broke his arm in football. We got home at almost 6:00, so I didn't have a lot of time for homework... in fact, I just finished about ten minutes ago. I am excited to sleep in on Saturday... sorry, that's kind-of all I can think about right now - SLEEP!

Getting past the thought of sleep, I will list some things that are important in my life right now:

1. God - absolutely my #1 BFF


2. Family - always there to help and encourage me


3. Friends - my "Cheer Leaders"... they always find a way (or make a way) to crack me up


4. Energy - that includes SLEEP, eating good foods - it doesn't (at least not where I'm concerned) include Coffee... my parents, on the other hand, are all over it


5. Faith - trusting that God's gonna do what he says he's gonna do

Halloween Plans

Well school is definately keeping me busy - often too busy to write about it! I will give you an update on our adoption situation - We are adopting a boy and a girl, brother and sister, and we are assuming that my parents will be able to go to Uganda to get them no sooner than January. The suspense is sometimes unbareable - we really want to meet these two right NOW!

School is going well... I'm understanding most of the math that I'm doing, and for me, that's a really good thing. I am very excited for eighth hour because that is band! I am in the marching band this year and it is a lot of fun. It's a great work out, too! in fact, my arms felt like jello today after I got done marching around the block with the rest of the band. Sometimes I doubt that I will be able to make it all around town in the Halloween Parade.
Speaking of Halloween, I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing for it. I'm trying to convince my mom into letting me have my two best friends, Lizzie and Veronica, over so that we can bob for apples, frost cookies, and answer the doorbell when excited trick-or-treaters come. We might even scare some of the older kids - but not the little ones. My brother, Hayden, once went into a "Haunted Garden" of a classmate of mine, and he nearly wet his pants he was so scared! He wouldn't go in, even for his favorite bag of chips! Carter had to go in for him. I'd rather not have a petrified toddler wet his pants on my front step.

If I can't have them over, I will probably just sit at the door and hand out candy in my costume from last year... I hope that doesn't happen :)