  Hi guys, just took me the better part of the morning catching up on everything. In light of today being the girls' first day back to school and my surgery scheduled for Wednesday, I decided to run away from home for a few days last week.
Ironically, the same days Shep was AWOL. No, we weren't, but a girl can dream, can't she? There is justice in the world. A four-hour car trip with two autistic children and a 62-year-old mother with bladder control issues, we went to Lubbock, TX home of Texas Tech Red Raiders (who beat Mr. Smith's beloved Ole Miss Rebs last year). Checked into one of the nicest hotels I've ever been in, and the only hotel Jaylee's ever been in, only to find the hotel is exclusively CNN.
Does anyone know if Ted Turner owns the Holiday Inn chain? We had a fifth floor atrium room an elevator ride and steps away from the in-door swimming pool. Took everyone to IMAX for an undersea adventure, the water park for sunburns, and the mall for movies and dinner. The girls were not real keen on the idea of sleeping in strange beds, but by the time we left Sunday morning, they were reluctant to say the least.
Sarah seranaded us on the way home with "I don't HAVE any school tomorrow! " For four hours. So far so good. Talked the chef at the restaurant we ate at Saturday night into trading his Apple Pie Cheesecake recipe for my Peach Cheesecake recipe. Thinking about putting together a cookbook. What do ya'll think? Fast easy entrees with back-breaking, heart-achingly good desserts. Still no calls from the school reporting mass hysteria. Sarah seemed to settle in nicely, but Jaylee wasn't too sure. Kindergarten finds her in a different classroom with a different teacher. And a longer schedule. She goes until 3 p.m. now. Our school is so small that one teacher handles the special education students K-4, 5-8, and 9-12.
There are still only 4 students in the class. And two of them are mine. Jan - I would give money for that doctored picture of Shep. I can't even imagine him with the wash-off tattoos. But I bet he's got a nipple piercing. ;-) I'm going to try to be better about posting now that I'm all by myself all day long. Ya'll have a good one. 
