Friday, January 22, 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
What's up? January 2016 edition
Typing this on our new iPad. Yep, we joined the rest of the world. Though, I'm sure they are aleady onto something else by now :) It's been fun, espcially for Adam. He's such a video game freak. I like being able to use a touch screen while typing, but don't like that you can only have one app open at a time. I really like that I can use it anywhere in the house.
What else is going on for us? We had a visit from Michelle and family just before Christmas. The kids hit it off right away. I love that our families can just pick up where we left off. Christmas was lovely. Half at Jim's parents and half at mine. Way too many presents, tons of fun and not enough time. My parents and Kim lost power for 36 hours just before we showed up. We got lucky to have hot water and a heater!
Jim - He is back to living with us. The NY job fizzled and he is now working out of Eagan, managing people in 3 different locations. That seems temporary too, so we'll see where they steer him next?
Jenny - I am a lunch lady! OK, actually just a substitute lunch lady! It's been really fun. I took a little time to get over my own personal stigma about what "kind" of job I "should" be in and have settled into a very good place with it. I realized today how crazy happy everyone is to be at their job, at all the schools! How many of your coworkers can you say that about? No glassy eyed, bored people here. Lots of energy, pride, and commraderie. These ladies are smart, funny, and a pleasure to be around. I like the sub situation also because I've reserved Mondays for volunteering at the kids' school, and if I don't want to work some day, I just say "No". (That's a good theory, but I'm booked for all of January and a few days in February already).
Also, I am entering 2 of my drawings to the Art House's winter exhibit. They display the art in the library and Byerly's grocery store. I think they will take any art that is submitted, but it's still exciting for a brand new artist. I'll post pictures of them after they are displayed.
I'm also still walking our neighbor's dog, Nikka, everyday (or bringing her over here to play with Ava), and once a week I teach a short class at a local family shelter.
Since starting work, I am so much busier, but also so much happier and strangely enough I get more done at home too? Weird!
Laura - She's cruising along in karate. She still loves her bo, but is finding this form much harder and longer to learn. Which makes sense, it should get harder as you move up belts.
She is also in student council, orchestra, piano, and I signed her up for track in March. Busy girl!
She will be 10 this year!
Adam - He just lost another tooth today! That's #5 for him. I find the milestones of teeth loss particularly meaningful. They are just so darn cute with those holes in their smile and it doesn't last long. He is still taking drumming lessons and just started a short chess class. I also signed him up for track in March. Overall, he's doing great. School is going well and he seems to have made a couple new friends.
I owe the blog some pictures, but they are on the desktop, not the iPad, so that will have to wait. Happy January!
What else is going on for us? We had a visit from Michelle and family just before Christmas. The kids hit it off right away. I love that our families can just pick up where we left off. Christmas was lovely. Half at Jim's parents and half at mine. Way too many presents, tons of fun and not enough time. My parents and Kim lost power for 36 hours just before we showed up. We got lucky to have hot water and a heater!
Jim - He is back to living with us. The NY job fizzled and he is now working out of Eagan, managing people in 3 different locations. That seems temporary too, so we'll see where they steer him next?
Jenny - I am a lunch lady! OK, actually just a substitute lunch lady! It's been really fun. I took a little time to get over my own personal stigma about what "kind" of job I "should" be in and have settled into a very good place with it. I realized today how crazy happy everyone is to be at their job, at all the schools! How many of your coworkers can you say that about? No glassy eyed, bored people here. Lots of energy, pride, and commraderie. These ladies are smart, funny, and a pleasure to be around. I like the sub situation also because I've reserved Mondays for volunteering at the kids' school, and if I don't want to work some day, I just say "No". (That's a good theory, but I'm booked for all of January and a few days in February already).
Also, I am entering 2 of my drawings to the Art House's winter exhibit. They display the art in the library and Byerly's grocery store. I think they will take any art that is submitted, but it's still exciting for a brand new artist. I'll post pictures of them after they are displayed.
I'm also still walking our neighbor's dog, Nikka, everyday (or bringing her over here to play with Ava), and once a week I teach a short class at a local family shelter.
Since starting work, I am so much busier, but also so much happier and strangely enough I get more done at home too? Weird!
Laura - She's cruising along in karate. She still loves her bo, but is finding this form much harder and longer to learn. Which makes sense, it should get harder as you move up belts.
She is also in student council, orchestra, piano, and I signed her up for track in March. Busy girl!
She will be 10 this year!
Adam - He just lost another tooth today! That's #5 for him. I find the milestones of teeth loss particularly meaningful. They are just so darn cute with those holes in their smile and it doesn't last long. He is still taking drumming lessons and just started a short chess class. I also signed him up for track in March. Overall, he's doing great. School is going well and he seems to have made a couple new friends.
I owe the blog some pictures, but they are on the desktop, not the iPad, so that will have to wait. Happy January!
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