Mike is home! He has completed Basic Military Training and Tech School. He was his Tech School's Distinguished Graduate achieving an overall grade of 97.75%. He leaves in a few days for Anchorage. His orders are for two years at Elmendorf AFB. We hope to be able to visit him. Or, perhaps we can meet him in Hawaii for some R and R! :) We won't be with him this year on his birthday or for Christmas. I can't believe it.

Tonight we are going to eat lasagna at Phil and Stacy's. They want to see Mike before he leaves for Alaska. Mike loves Aunt Stacy's lasagna!

Cleo, our Havanese, is a year and a half now. She has her own Blog at Dogster.com (http://www.dogster.com/pet_page.php?j=t&i=255600). Sugar has a blog, too (http://www.dogster.com/pet_page.php?i=255797). She just turned 15 years old. Poor girl is crippled with arthritis and going deaf. Don't think she'll be here when Mike returns.

We are having a gas fireplace insert installed in a few weeks. It will be lovely. Can't wait.

There will be a referendum for our school district March 16, 2006. It is for a new state-of-the-art 1,600-student high school, athletic field & stadium upgrades, full-day kindergarten and classroom additions, new ninth grade campus & elementary school boilers, ADA/Life System & safety upgrades, and a new community and school swimming & diving center. We are pushing hard for it to pass. If it passes, it will really improve our school district.

Lindsay, Mike, and Ashlee have invited Casey to go roller skating in Dover with them tonight. So, it's off to the attic for me to locate some skates that will fit Casey.