Freedom!!

I have escaped my home to have a great breakfast with Ed and KK and to teach a lesson to Ed and Bonnie. It feels so good to be sitting in the studio and hear the silence around me.

Doug is feeling awful with his cold funk and Drew is recovering from his, Mariah is learning to use her crutches and is still helpless in many ways.

It is time to gather the information for Mariah's yearly report to the Ukrainian Embassy that should include all of the years development, I plan to do this soon and get it sent before I travel back to the DR. I can hardly believe that she has been with us for almost 4 years wow how the time goes.

I am crossing my fingers that Doug feels better soon, so that we can have a date.

I leave for the Country Western World Competition on Dec 31.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!

We wish you a very Merry Christmas.
I am sending many blessing to all, where to start, we have enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and there is so much to write about. Last evening we enjoyed dinner with Dougs mom and brother and the kids had a blast opening presents and baking cookies for Santa.
Drew and Mariah have a tradition of sleeping together every Christmas Eve and the cast did not stop this tradition. They were early to bed and I was beginning to wonder if Santa would make it to our house but he did indeed show up and left a pink corvette for Mariah to cruise around in and many games and technology things Drew was pleased to get.
The kids spent the day playing with their toys and we were invited to our friends Jan and Norm for dinner, we had a wonderful time and the kids played great, its so cool to have great friends.
I am wondering why the time is going so quickly this month but we are already at the end of 07 and 08 is knocking on our door.
Mariah will have a doctors appointment tomorrow and she should get a new cast, I hope this is true because the current one looks like she has had it for years and the toe is broken, so much for this injury slowing her down, she has been hell on wheels since Sunday afternoon and definitely does not show any signs of pain or discomfort from the break. She is sleeping well and gets around by crawling on her knees, sliding on her stomach and hopping on one foot. I plan to go find smaller crutches tomorrow, the ones the hospital gave us are to big so go figure.
Drew is in need of a doctors appointment for the cough he has and we hope to get him seen this week.
I am going to close now, its late and I feel exhausted.
Peace, Love and Happiness to all,
The Daffron's

Sweet Home Carolina !!

We have arrived to the cold weather of Durham North Carolina. The kids are laid up, Drew with a nasty cold and Mariah with a broken foot. What can I say never a dull moment in the life of the Daffrons.

We have had a wonderful time spending time with friends and family. We have been getting into the holiday spirit and have enjoyed spending time in church and relaxing.

Doug and I hit the road on last Monday for Charlotte, Tue Doug headed to Virginia Beach to train and spend time, I taught lessons at the studio and prepared the tree with the kids.

Doug returned from Virgina Beach on Thur and we enjoyed a night out shopping and dinner.

Friday was a busy day with lots of kids in and out of the house, Drew planned a party with friends and Mariah was having fun with her favorite neighbors when she was doing flips on the trampoline and broke her ankle. We spent the evening from 11pm until 4am in the Duke ER and came home with a cast. I guess you can say this has been an early Christmas present. I did not ask Santa for this gift but will find the positive in all of this and tell you that as I carry my 5 year old bundle of joy my arms are getting stronger and I am using muscles in my back that I did not know I had. We have done some great art projects and have enjoyed spending time together.
I will post some photos of Mariah and her new dance partner "the cast" soon.
Hugs to all,
Missy

Freaky Weather Slams Caribbean

The title is the headline on a news site I just read. This is so true. I have so much to write but am exhausted and my body is so tight. The storm hit us about 12:30 last night and was so strong until about 2 ish I finally fell asleep around 430am. The kids had no school. Most of the area is without power, thankfully we have power and only had to find our lawn chairs and laundry from the line. What can I say it was the worst storm I have ever experienced and the winds were unreal, I kept going out side to look for the screaming girl only to be almost swept off my feet by the wind. I will write more when things calm down. I am typing and the rain is coming down really hard now 6pm our time.
God Bless,
Missy

Good or Bad

Hay every one I'm back (it's Drew). So it's good that we are leaving soon but bad that there's another tropical storm is here i hope it leaves soon. if my mom did not tell you then i will when i played soccer on when was it um OH yeah like on Thursday my school had a soccer game and the caption (sense the coach was in the us) promised that i could play because I'm on the team and at half time i asked him "am i going to play". he responded by saying "no not until we are winning if not then you will not get to play". at the half it was tied 0-0 my friend Omar asked the caption (which is the goalie) if he could play goalie he said " no I'm going to play the whole game". my other friend Andy asked if I DREW was going to play goalie he said no also and he said if i was going to play in the game then i would have to play DEFENCE I SUCK AT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!( he does not know that). well i got to go study for a spelling test got to get an A+ and i also have to study for a reading quiz G2G

peace out 2007

"OLGA"

Hey folks! Guess what? We are in the middle of yet another storm. Olga has arrived and she is very interesting. What do I mean by interesting? We are experiencing stop and go rain and wind. The weather will be calm and not rain and all is still and then 20 minutes later the sky will open up and it will pour buckets of rain and the wind seems like the setting is on high of my hair dryer.

The kids went to school but at 10am I received a call from Drew telling me that school was letting out at noon. I hope the storm passes through quickly because the kids go stir crazy in the house.

I thought that Raquel would not come to work today because it is flooding and high water all around town and the local government is telling the people that we are under a red alertand to stay home. Raquel did show up and now we have wet laundry hanging all over our house, I think we have the same clothes on the line out side that she put up Friday and they are still WET.

How does the song go about the rain going away? I need the words so that we can sing it.
We are hoping that school will be in session tomorrow because Mariah has a class party and Drew's class needs to practice there dance for Friday.

The photo above was taken as soon as we got home from school. Take note of how dark it is.

Hope you staying dry in your part of the world.

Missy, Drew and Mariah

Beach Photos

TAKE #1

Mariah and Drew waiting to go to the dance lesson... One of the many rainbows we have seen....

OK I don't want to get 2 excited but it looks like I am making progress. Vesna helped me yesterday and I am very grateful.

More to come,

Missy

?? CHRISTMAS ??

I finally got the photo going in the right direction.

December 6, 2007


WOW I can hardly believe that we are in December. I have to keep writing and typing it because it just doesn't feel like Christmas. Yes, I see many dusty Christmas trees and a few out door decorations but other wise yuck. We are still counting down until we arrive home in Durham December 15. 9 Sleeps.What’s happening? Dancing more and spending a lot of time at the school with the kids, for this I am happy. School projects on North Carolina, dogs, Michael Vick, Sharks. This has been enough to keep us busy. Did I mention Mariah is learning to read....yeah she is doing quite well and enjoys herself on most days. Doug has been away for a week now and is spending time with his Dad in St.Louis unfortunately Doug arrived on Friday and his Dad was put in the hospital on Monday so the visit has been interesting. We hope he will be going to rehab tomorrow. My mom had surgery late last month and is out of commission for about 6 weeks i.e. no driving, lifting etc so life is not fun for her now. We have some interesting activities coming up in the next few days before we leave for the states. Tomorrow Mariah has a dance at school for kindergarten thru 3rd grade. Christmas party for Mariah's class Wed, Christmas party for Drew’s class Thru, school Christmas bazaar on Thru afternoon, school wide Christmas show and concert on Friday and another party for Drew that evening. Hopefully this is enough to get me in the spirit. I want to smell a Christmas tree and see a fire in my fireplace.Warm greetings to all.
Love
The Daffrons