Time just keeps flying by. I know that it was just Thanksgiving yesterday and we were enjoying snow and turkey at my mom's house. Right?!? The days just seem to keep flying off of the calendar like in those cartoons when they want to show time passing quickly. That's what I feel like.
We have been busy in our house. Our elf, Oswald, is back to visit. He hasn't done anything crazy yet. We finished decorating all of our trees this morning, except for the ornaments we made on Monday. We went to Painted Plate like last year and everyone made their own ornament. Lots of fun! We can pick up those ornaments on Saturday night.
The weather has been so crazy. Last week it was freezing! Today when I went to work it was 64. Really? It is December. When I came home it had dropped to 55. The wind is crazy too. I just moved what was left of my outside decorations into the garage because it is supposed to be windier tomorrow. While at my mom's, we had collected cedar branches. I had enough to make three swags with some left over. I placed some of the branches in the planters out front and put ornaments in them. I also had enough to put in a wooden sled that Lovey made a few years ago and put that in my planter bed. Our landscaping crew was so thoughtful in cleaning up, they completely emptied my sled today! Yikes! At least they left the branches in the planters alone even though they keep flying away. After chasing the ornaments down the street in my pajamas tonight, I have moved them into the garage!
Here's hoping we don't fly away like the pages of the calendar!
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Fall
What a beautiful fall we have had! Sunny skies and in the 70s. This was the first weekend that I was wishing we had turned on the heat. Holding out until November. This weekend the wind and rain were crazy. Hopefully the rain stays away for Halloween!
I am two months into my new job and while it is completely overwhelming with the amount of information I need to learn, I am L.O.V.I.N.G. it! I still feel that I don't have a clear direction that I am headed and my first official observation is next week, but I am enjoying myself.
This week is super crazy with half days for conferences and then book fair. I have learned how to set up a book fair and today will be my first day of sales. It is going to be a long day, but tomorrow will be longer after a half day of teaching and then 6 hours of book fair. Yikes!
The school year is already flying by it seems. Lovey has finished his fall ball season and his first basketball practices start tomorrow night. Who thinks that an 8pm practice on a school night is okay for 4th and 5th graders???? I don't know who sets the practice schedule, but I am less than thrilled. I am not fond of the Y sports program and here is just another reason.
Littlebit can't decide if she still wants to dance. She said she would give it another month. She was disappointed that the class did not have more gymnastics. The straight gymnastics class didn't fit into our schedule though.
I am two months into my new job and while it is completely overwhelming with the amount of information I need to learn, I am L.O.V.I.N.G. it! I still feel that I don't have a clear direction that I am headed and my first official observation is next week, but I am enjoying myself.
This week is super crazy with half days for conferences and then book fair. I have learned how to set up a book fair and today will be my first day of sales. It is going to be a long day, but tomorrow will be longer after a half day of teaching and then 6 hours of book fair. Yikes!
The school year is already flying by it seems. Lovey has finished his fall ball season and his first basketball practices start tomorrow night. Who thinks that an 8pm practice on a school night is okay for 4th and 5th graders???? I don't know who sets the practice schedule, but I am less than thrilled. I am not fond of the Y sports program and here is just another reason.
Littlebit can't decide if she still wants to dance. She said she would give it another month. She was disappointed that the class did not have more gymnastics. The straight gymnastics class didn't fit into our schedule though.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Finding a balance
As parents we want our children to be independent, but still need us. We want them to be self-starters and self-entertainers, but we also want them to want to do stuff with us. It's a hard balance to find sometimes. Lovey always wants to be entertained, whether by me or electronics. Telling him to find something to do usually results in whining or him asking if I wanted to play a game or do something with him. Littlebit has more of an imagination and is content to talk to herself and build in the sandbox.
This summer has been a challenge since their best friends moved in December. Last summer I rarely saw Littlebit and Lovey because they were in the cul de sac with their friends and I could keep an eye on them out the back windows. This summer friends are farther away and I can't watch Lovey as he plays. We started sending him with a watch and a time to be home, but this usually resulted in him returning just to ask if he could leave again, disrupting whatever game he was playing with his friends.
We decided to invest in walkie-talkies. This way he can go out and not have a set time to be home, but I can call him when I need him. At first when I told him the plan, his first words to me were, "I do not wanna be that kid!" He wanted a phone! Nice try. I told him it was this or he could come home every hour to check in. The first run with this was a little bumpy. The battery died because he kept playing with it checking in with me every five minutes. (His doing, not mine!)Then when the battery died he just kept playing and I had to go look for him when I couldn't get a hold of him to tell him to come home for dinner. We had a little talk about when it dies, coming home for his watch.
Yesterday I decided the kids needed to go out and get dirty and play. And not in our postage stamp of a backyard. Some day we hope to have more space, but it is not in the foreseeable future. There is a tree tract one house down that I usually don't let them go in, but yesterday I relented. When I was his age, I was riding my horse through the woods and along the trails by the power lines. And I didn't have a walkie-talkie or cell phone. Our house didn't even have a cordless phone! (Where they even around then?) I remember riding my bike across the highway to the convenience store. Yes, I was probably older than Lovey, but not much because I stopped riding bikes when I was thirteen. Now you couldn't pay me to try to ride across that highway, but different times. I want my kids to experience some freedom, but I am not ready to let go totally. I also don't want to be seen as that parent. The one who lets her kids just roam around. We live in a society of wrapping our kids in bubble wrap and while I don't want them to get hurt, I want them to take risks and have fun. So today they are in the tree tract jumping over sticker bushes, chopping at dead limbs with a spade, and climbing trees. Lovey came home for his watch because the walkie-talkie was almost dead. Good boy!
I hope that when they look back on their childhood, they remember the fun that they had together playing in that small patch of trees near our house. I hope this fosters creativity and independence in them as well.
This summer has been a challenge since their best friends moved in December. Last summer I rarely saw Littlebit and Lovey because they were in the cul de sac with their friends and I could keep an eye on them out the back windows. This summer friends are farther away and I can't watch Lovey as he plays. We started sending him with a watch and a time to be home, but this usually resulted in him returning just to ask if he could leave again, disrupting whatever game he was playing with his friends.
We decided to invest in walkie-talkies. This way he can go out and not have a set time to be home, but I can call him when I need him. At first when I told him the plan, his first words to me were, "I do not wanna be that kid!" He wanted a phone! Nice try. I told him it was this or he could come home every hour to check in. The first run with this was a little bumpy. The battery died because he kept playing with it checking in with me every five minutes. (His doing, not mine!)Then when the battery died he just kept playing and I had to go look for him when I couldn't get a hold of him to tell him to come home for dinner. We had a little talk about when it dies, coming home for his watch.
Yesterday I decided the kids needed to go out and get dirty and play. And not in our postage stamp of a backyard. Some day we hope to have more space, but it is not in the foreseeable future. There is a tree tract one house down that I usually don't let them go in, but yesterday I relented. When I was his age, I was riding my horse through the woods and along the trails by the power lines. And I didn't have a walkie-talkie or cell phone. Our house didn't even have a cordless phone! (Where they even around then?) I remember riding my bike across the highway to the convenience store. Yes, I was probably older than Lovey, but not much because I stopped riding bikes when I was thirteen. Now you couldn't pay me to try to ride across that highway, but different times. I want my kids to experience some freedom, but I am not ready to let go totally. I also don't want to be seen as that parent. The one who lets her kids just roam around. We live in a society of wrapping our kids in bubble wrap and while I don't want them to get hurt, I want them to take risks and have fun. So today they are in the tree tract jumping over sticker bushes, chopping at dead limbs with a spade, and climbing trees. Lovey came home for his watch because the walkie-talkie was almost dead. Good boy!
I hope that when they look back on their childhood, they remember the fun that they had together playing in that small patch of trees near our house. I hope this fosters creativity and independence in them as well.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Summer
We just wrapped up the first week of summer!
It was hard to say good bye to preschool, but it is time to move on to other things. I had an interview at an elementary school, but I didn't get the job. Boo. My interview was much better than the one last fall, so that is a definite bright spot. Littlebit keeps asking if I am going to be an "home mom". I don't think she remembers when I was a stay at home mom.
We don't have any plans this summer, except for a baseball for Lovey and gymnastics camp for Littlebit. I am excited because they are the same week! A week to myself!
Now to soak up some of that beautiful sunshine we are having. Almost 80 today. Yippee!
It was hard to say good bye to preschool, but it is time to move on to other things. I had an interview at an elementary school, but I didn't get the job. Boo. My interview was much better than the one last fall, so that is a definite bright spot. Littlebit keeps asking if I am going to be an "home mom". I don't think she remembers when I was a stay at home mom.
We don't have any plans this summer, except for a baseball for Lovey and gymnastics camp for Littlebit. I am excited because they are the same week! A week to myself!
Now to soak up some of that beautiful sunshine we are having. Almost 80 today. Yippee!
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Spring Break
Last week was spring break and it was fantastic! The weather was beautiful. We are talking 60s! Time to break out the capris for me and the shorts for the kids. We had one day of rain, but even then I managed a little yard clean up. After enduring 40 preschool conferences, a week off with sunshine was well deserved.
Unfortunately Big Daddy was studying for a test and didn't get to enjoy the week with the rest of us and of course that test was on Friday of spring break. Boo!!! The kids and I took full advantage of the sun. We played with friends at the park and enjoyed some time at the history museum. The kids even set up a stand in the front yard trying to sell their Origami Star Wars figures. They were not successful, but they didn't seem to mind.
Big changes are happening in our house. Lovey turns 10 this month! How can that be???? Littlebit has a big gap where she lost her two front teeth. And I have decided that this is my last year teaching preschool. (I say that now, but I might be back. God is funny that way.) I think that it is time for me to go back to elementary school. I can't believe it has been 10 years since I have worked full time. I applied for a few teaching jobs, two at my kids' school, where I really want to be. After my disastrous library interview this fall, I don't think that I will be called for an interview there but I keep hoping. If not, I plan to sub and maybe prove that I am not a bumbling idiot and that nerves really got the best of me.
Spring break ended too quickly and we are back to our super crazy schedule of dance, piano, baseball and fast pitch. This week seems to be jam packed with an added music concert and Easter again snuck up on me. Two more months and it will be vacation time again!
Unfortunately Big Daddy was studying for a test and didn't get to enjoy the week with the rest of us and of course that test was on Friday of spring break. Boo!!! The kids and I took full advantage of the sun. We played with friends at the park and enjoyed some time at the history museum. The kids even set up a stand in the front yard trying to sell their Origami Star Wars figures. They were not successful, but they didn't seem to mind.
Big changes are happening in our house. Lovey turns 10 this month! How can that be???? Littlebit has a big gap where she lost her two front teeth. And I have decided that this is my last year teaching preschool. (I say that now, but I might be back. God is funny that way.) I think that it is time for me to go back to elementary school. I can't believe it has been 10 years since I have worked full time. I applied for a few teaching jobs, two at my kids' school, where I really want to be. After my disastrous library interview this fall, I don't think that I will be called for an interview there but I keep hoping. If not, I plan to sub and maybe prove that I am not a bumbling idiot and that nerves really got the best of me.
Spring break ended too quickly and we are back to our super crazy schedule of dance, piano, baseball and fast pitch. This week seems to be jam packed with an added music concert and Easter again snuck up on me. Two more months and it will be vacation time again!
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