Time Flies
Wow! I hadn't realized it had been so long since last my entry. It has now been a little over a month since Tan left for the desert. I get an email from him almost everyday, except for those couple of times he emailed and I never received them. LOL I have also received a couple pictures. Even forwarded pictures of the boxer puppies from his female that is staying with his parents in South Dakota. They are so damn cute! It finally really hit me, just two days ago, that I am really starting to miss him.
On to other news. I had a dentist from hell visit. In my book every visit to him is one from hell. I have this HUGE anxiety thing about the dentist.
I can handle the cleanings. This time, it seems, he needed to extract a back molar. Luck me! It was a BITCH! The molar broke into pieces. In the process of that excruciating process the demon man managed somehow to dislodge a jaw bone fragment. This fragment then began working its way up my gum into the area next to the spot where the molar had been. BIG OUCHIE!! Of course, the Dr. Of Doom decided to "let it work its way out." Meanwhile, I was in big time pain clear up my jaw line. Last night I could it no more. So, I grabbed tweezers, a flashlight, and began the process of getting that fragment the hell of there. After about 15 minutes it came out! Now, I just have a different type of pain. LOL So, I will be calling him back today. SHIT! Here's to you Dr! 
LOL
It seems like it is always something . If not with me than with one of the boys.
I also got the "joy" of going with my brother to help him a new a computer. The old one was a piece a crap.
He knows next to nothing about computers. I am having to teach him EVERYTHING. Well, wait, I have already taught him some things so that isn't entirely true. He should be happy with the one we picked out. It will do what they need it to. Then, we hooked it all up, got it set up to his DSL, set up his MSN account, updated all of his crap, and gave him a quick course of what he needed to know. Now, it will be lessons by phone for the simple things until a big question comes up that I will have to go back over and show him.
AH hell, what are little sisters for?
Well, I am going to go enjoy the quiet before I have to get the troops up for school.
Have a good one everyone!
Time to fly,
Morgan
Sit in
This may be my longest entry yet. Long, but, I think interesting if not entertaining. OKAY..
No, it wasn't me. It was the boys! Thanks to the school district deciding, after YEARS, to enforce a handbook dress code. Trust me on the years thing I went to school in this district LOL. Let me explain. 
Last week, after returning from Christmas break, I receive a phone call from the Dean of Students. He is informing me Austin needs to come home and change his jeans. Yes, that is correct, his jeans. He has a hole a distress mark in leg.
The dean explains that in November annoucements were made that after break the dress code would be enforced. No clothes looking "soiled, ragged, torn...". So, for the moment, I just say fine you might as well send Kenny home as well, he is wearing similar jeans.
Now, my biggest gripe is why in the hell way back in November, when these "annoucements" were made to the student body didn't someone send letters or SOMETHING home to parents. It would of been real nice to know to this information before I spent money on birthday/Christmas clothes for school. 
These distressed/destroyed jeans are what the kids are wearing. Hell, not just the kids/teens. Adults wear them also. I do...Kenzy does. I am sure some of you have a pair or two. Whether you bought them that way or they just came to be that way. I am not saying the holes need to be inappropriate. I wouldn't send the boys to school with holes showing stuff that does not need to be showing LOL. But, shit come on! A worn spot on the back pocket? A frayed hem? That is just ridiculous.
So, the student body rallied together to let the central office and school administration know how they felt about all this. On Friday of last week around 100+ kids wore jeans with holes. Of course, the ones that were caught at the door were turned away and made to change. The others were promptly sent home to change or sent to ISS (in school suspension). The local news actually did a small spot on the whole thing! 
Fast forward to Monday (yesterday). Well, I knew Sunday night my two would be involved. They wanted to let their opinion be heard, it could be worse. It was going to be peaceful, so why not? Anyway, the students were going to be meeting at the school flagpole right in front of of the building at 7:30 a.m. Monday morning. 
News channel, and police of course LOL) at the ready. The turn out was good surprisingly, 200+ students ended up showing along with a couple mothers. They did a small "protest" about how they should be able to wear to the jeans as long as they are not distracting. That is what the handbook states. Nothing distracting. (that brings up another question for me....aren't the Gothic kids appearance distracting??)
Around 8 a.m they moved everyone in the commons area. This is where the "sit in" took place". My boys, their first sit in. SIGH LMAO 
Believing in a cause. Kenny called one of the local radio stations and was un on air live, which was replayed this morning. The sit in lasted until around noon. The boys showed up here around 11:30 to fill Kenzy and I in on all the details and gossip going around. One mother decided to "pray for the holes" before the school made her leave the building. One other mother was thrown out and her student suspended for calling a dean a Nazi. Now, that is carrying it too far.
In the end, they gave the students a compromise from their of "demands". 
The holes cannot be high upon the thighs, show skin, or be ragged. The ones that are manufactured with the reinforced backs are ok. I hear a letter will be drafted and sent out to homes within the week. WOW AMAZING!
I was just proud that the boys stood up for something they believed in. They felt their rights of freedom were being infringed upon. They handled it in a peaceful, organized manner. 
At least the boys are speaking up for something they belive in when they feel their rights to express are being stepped upon. It could be something so much worse. I know this may seem so silly to some, if not all of you, but the boys are very happy of themselves and I am also. Not necessarily that the students can wear these jeans, but for the fact of the experience. They stood up for themselves in face against the odds. For that, I am proud!
I have told them they will always have rules and regs to live by. That is just life. But, an experience like this can never hurt anyone. I feel it strengthens character and self-esteem, among other things.
I am a proud Mom.
Time to fly,
Morgan
Amendment: Here is the article from the paper, sorry it is long but it is a great article. So worth reading. It is not accessible through my comments due to the way the paper is set up. They make you sign up inorder to read the online their stuff!
Rainbow Rowell: You sent my kid home for what?
BY RAINBOW ROWELL
WORLD-HERALD COLUMNIST
If my kid got sent home from school for wearing ripped jeans, I would send him right to his room . . .
So he wouldn't hear me go ballistic on his principal.
Are you serious, Bellevue East? Sending students home because their frayed jeans are disrupting class?
I'll tell you what's more disrupting to class: sending students home.
Especially for something as innocuous as wearing holey jeans.
Send my kid home if he's picking fights or packing heat. Send him home to change if he's wearing something vulgar or revealing.
Send him home if he's not following the rules . . .
But don't make rules just for the sake of having rules.
School officials say the rips and tears are distracting and an obstacle to order and discipline . . . How is that possibly true?
Who in 2006 is distracted by frayed jeans? Who in 1996 or 1986 or 1976?
You'd have to go pretty far back to find someone who would be scandalized by a ripped knee. (I keep picturing an over-the-top square in a "Monkees" episode. The kind of character who calls everybody, "Darn dirty hippies.")
You could argue that rips in the underwear region are distracting. Here's a defensible rule: No holes near your unmentionables.
That's actually close to the rule proposed by Bellevue East students. About 200 skipped class Monday to demand a less restrictive dress code, one that would ban tears only above the skirt line.
I'm pretty impressed by Bellevue East students. I can't imagine 200 kids at my high school being organized enough to stage a protest and actually following through with it.
The kids who skipped class at Bellevue East are kids who normally go to class. Who care about getting in trouble. That shows how important this is to them.
What is more important to a teenager than freedom of expression?
At 16, 17, you feel like an adult, but you're still treated like a child. You follow everyone else's rules all day long.
You treasure the decisions that are mostly your own, what you wear, what music you listen to. That's how you express yourself. It's who you are.
Public schools should limit that expression as little as possible - only when a kid is actually causing a problem.
These kids' jeans aren't causing problems. Did you see the two girls who ended up on the front page of Friday afternoon's World-Herald after their ripped jeans got them sent home? They looked clean, healthy and athletic. Fashionable, but not fashion victims.
If I were raising a daughter, I would love for her to dress that comfortably modest, in ripped jeans and a soccer T-shirt layered over a long-sleeved shirt.
In this ultra low-rise world, any girl who finds jeans that don't leave a four-inch gap between her waistband and her shirtwaist should be applauded - not sent home.
I keep trying to guess what secret reason Bellevue East might have to suddenly start enforcing a ripped jeans rule that's been on the books for years. Is there some Bellevue street gang that identifies itself with ripped jeans? (In my high school, the gang members wore the nicest jeans. Never ripped, always ironed.)
There has to be a reason. You can't tell an 18-year-old to obey the rules just because you said so. Because you're the boss.
Listen here, Buster, them's the rules and you'll obey 'em and you'll like it. Or else.
That isn't speaking with authority. That's just being a bully. Contact the Omaha World-Herald newsroomCopyright ©2006 Omaha World-Herald®. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, displayed or distributed for any purpose without permission from the Omaha World-Herald.
HOW ABOUT
THEM LONGHORNS!
That was one helluva game last night and for those of you that missed it....DAMN you missed out! Right down to the last 19 seconds. This not only tickles me pink to my very core because, of course, I live in Nebraska and am a Texas fan..lol but also the Horns hadn't won a national championship in like forever (no need to put down the scary numbers
) . The Husker fans aren't too fond of the Longhorns...eh wonder why? 
It is bittersweet that the 34-0 USC winning streak had to come to an end. Just glad the Horns were the ones that could end it!
College World Series Champs last summer, now the Rose Bowl to be National Champions, whats next? Well, hell, need to keep going until we can roll back around to baseball season again!
Time to fly,
Morgan (a very happy Morgan)
I am usually the one under the knife. LMAO
Austin got a new car. His last one blew TWO engines. The second one was not his fault. The new one is a red, and I mean RED, VW Gulf hatchback turbo. It is a really cute car. This one will last him until he graduates college, at least it damn well better. ha ha I must admit he does baby this one.
