Julie

Cootie

Remember this game from when you were a kid? Lily loves it! Today she wanted to make one for each of us, so from left to right we have Daddy, Mommy, Lily, Emma...

Happy Birthday, Pam!

Pam is my amazing mother in law and today is her birthday.  If you don't know her, you are missing out.  She is one of the most giving and selfless people I have ever met! We are so blessed by her!  I love her dearly and hope she has a wonderful and relaxing birthday!

Blogging in my head...

I have had so many things that I have planned on blogging about during the last week, but for some reason they have not made it from my head to my computer.  So, since I am sure that time will not slow down for me to blog all I want to say, I will blog the condensed version.

Things I have wanted to blog about:

1)  Pastor Matt's sermon on loving the poor as Jesus did.  He challenged us to give up our shoes during church and leave them at the alter, to donate to a homeless shelter.  I was amazed to see so many people leave church barefoot.  I had chills.  Sadly, I wore two inch heels for the first time in over a year and wasn't sure they would bring warmth and comfort to a homeless person.  I have tennis shoes in the car waiting for next week.

2)  The electoral vote vs. popular vote system our government uses.  It seems so unfair to me.  It annoyed the heck out of me during election day.  Luckily Melissa B. was able to give me some insight. 

3)  Ron pulled out his back during our garage sale... poor guy! He is doing much better.

4) We had a successful garage sale and sold a couch for more than we paid for it!! Yay!! I love making room in my garage and getting money from stuff I don't want anymore.

5)  My principal shared with me that our enrollment numbers are high and that she will probably not be able to work out my part time schedule next year.  I am struggling with trusting that God will work it out, even though he has each year.  I love my schedule now, I have never felt so content with my work hours.  I need to not stress about things out of my control but it is hard.

6)  Emma is seven months old already!! How does the time go so quickly?
7)  I am reading a book called "The Shack" and it is amazing.  Anyone else reading this book?

Tinkerbell

We just watched the Tinkerbell movie and it is seriously the cutest movie I have ever seen!! I think I loved it as much as Lily!

Tired

This has been a long weekend! I was so excited to have a four day weekend in hopes that it would be relaxing, but not quite the case... We had a garage sale all day Saturday and ended up making some money which was great, but poor Ron pulled out his back bringing out furniture to sell and has been laid up all weekend.  Lily ended up sick Saturday and Sunday and Emma has been teething miserably all weekend, making my normally mellow baby, quite fussy.  I am soooooo tired!!! But am grateful that I had the day off... I would have been the grouchiest teacher ever today. 

Buried and waving

Two random words, I know... Buried is to show Lily's new form of entertainment- burying herself in the clothes I am taking to the good will!  And waving is to let you know that Emma can wave now! It's so cute :) 

 

 

The last to know...

I knew I had Tuesday off of work for Veteran's Day.. What I didn't know was that I also have Monday off!! My school district is awesome apparently and made it a 4 day weekend.  I just found out last night when my brother in law and sister in law told me.  I thought they were messing around with me.  I am so happy!! 4 days!! I must be the last teacher in the city to not have known this :)

Disneyland Wednesday

We had a fun night!  We went to Disneyland and enjoyed a crowdless park.. Lily was happy to meet a lot of characters she had never seen before, such as :

 

Chip and Dale

 

Sleeping Beauty

 

and Tinkerbell :)

Wow.

Tonight was such an amazing moment in history.  I had chills.

My Day- venting to happy

It just started out as one of "those days."  I was happy to wake up to the sound of rain, but it went downhill from there.  I am one who avoids drama at work and always have, but a few days ago, someone from the district observed my class and made a comment that I thought was inappropriate to make in front of my students.  I was bothered, but didn't want to make a big deal of it.  However, I did vent to someone at work.  She told my principal about what happened, who then called for a meeting with the lady that observed me.  Somehow, the issue I was upset about was not what was communicated to her and something else that didn't bother me, was.  So she was upset, and today I felt horrible and frustrated, and while I liked that my principal was trying to support me, wished she had not said a word. So I decided to treat myself to the lunch I was craving, to ease my frustrations, and had Ronnie pick me up a burger and fries while he was out.  While driving home, I ran over an already dead skunk, making my car smell AWFUL.  Got home, cranky already, only to find that Baker's had messed up my hamburger, and took Ron's words of "No thousand island, but add ketchup and mustard" to mean, "only meat and bun." Eww.. And to top it all off, they didn't put any ketchup in the bag and we ran out last night.  So to top it all off, once I finished my lunch, Emma barfed her whole bottle on every piece of clothing I was wearing.  EWW!! I decided that if I curled up on the couch and watched CNN's election coverage for a while that nothing else could annoy me, which turned out the be true... thank goodness...

My cranky mood was destroyed with a little quality time with Lily.  She wasn't into the CNN election updates (go figure..) and asked me if I wanted to go with her to a princess tea party.  She set up the whole thing, and we had a lovely afternoon with all the girls- Snow White, Belle, Cinderella, etc.  Thank God for children.  I don't know what else I would have found annoying today if she had not made me smile so much.