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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Really Really Big and Terrific News!

(Sharing the news)

My son the ever-wonderful Zachary

(also known as Zeke, which I know. confusing.) is now

drum roll please

AN EAGLE SCOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night he had his board of review, and passed it. Impressed the HELL outta them, in fact, and is now An EAGLE SCOUT!!! Ten years of Boy Scouts, good and bad, hours and days of taking this map from this:

to this:

on a school playground for his project, all culminated last night in the ultimate rank a guy can get.

We are very very proud.

9 comments:

frog ponds rock...5:16 PM
Oh Yay!!! Your children rock!!!!

cheers kim xx :)
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Tasina6:50 PM
Congrats!!!! :)
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Da Ripper6:57 PM
From someone who only made it to Life Scout, but was a Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 110, I know just how difficult this was for him.

Congratulations Zachary, Zach and Zeke (just covering all the bases, there).
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Veronica Foale7:00 PM
Oh congratulations!!!
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Lotus (Sarcastic Mom)10:14 PM
Rock on, Zeke!

He's so handsome in his uniform, Julie!
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Julie10:54 PM
Thank you all, and yeah, Lotus, I think he's pretty dang cute.
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Patsy7:20 AM
I know how proud you are ---- He may be the Eagle Scout, but YOU are the Eagle Scout MOM and without you he probably wouldn't have made it. Congratulations to both of you. :)
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dawn22410:23 AM
congrats! my brothers and my hubs did this :)
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Biddy1:22 PM
yayyyyyyy zeke! i was in Brownies for a week...hehe
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Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.