Peg's Blog

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Haddon Thomas DeMoure's 3rd Birthday

Haddon turned three November 17. He wanted his birthday party at Grandpa and Grandma's, and as you can see he had quite a time. He was so excited he didn't eat his cake and ice cream. Oh yeah, I think he finally ate half of a cupcake. He sure had a good time. He couldn't believe he got just about everything he asked for.

We finally got all five grandkids in one place at the same time just long enough to snap a photo. It isn't the best, but at least you can see them all.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Mom's 90th Birthday Bash

Mom had a great day Saturday. She made it all day and into the evening. We went to Celebritys for dinner after the open house. Lots of pictures were taken, and I attempted to get the best ones in this little slide show.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

A New Experience

I survived my first night of a brand new teaching experience for me: teaching technical writing to Harley Davidson tech students at the Harley Davidson tech center in Frontenac. I think I'm going to like it. I know technical writing isn't the most exciting subject for these students. It's a requirement and they just want to pass the class, so I promised I'd make the class as painless as possible and still teach them something useful. Now the challenge is keeping my promise, especially the part about teaching them something useful. Seventeen students showed up out of 23 that were on my roster; pretty good class size. Two of the students are female and two are older than I am (I think they are anyway). One young man is not a Harley student. He's in the military and doesn't get deployed until January, so he is taking the class to get some college credits before he possibly goes to Afghanistan in January. He's not sure exactly where he will be sent yet. The rest are, of course, 18-21 year old boys, (enough said!!) It ought to be interesting. One thing for sure though, it's not going to be be boring.