You are my Sunshine!!

SAY CHEESE

Don't I look good in yellow?  

         Look at my chompers 

Caterpillar

Tonight, as Kaitlyn and I were taking a walk in front of our house we found a caterpillar.  Not just any caterpillar, a great big fat caterpillar.  Kaitlyn was so excited about the "bug" she sat and looked at it for minutes, and if you know Kaitlyn, it takes  something pretty interesting to keep her sitting for that amount of time. We put it in  a jar and she watched as it rolled over and over.  She LOVED it!!!

Popcorn and M&Ms

The little things are so important.  Logan and I have a wonderful tradition.  We pop a bag of popcorn, put some m&ms in it and watch Friends!  The time that we share is priceless.  

Logan was introduced to the t.v show Friends, because mom was a big fan and I have all 10 seasons on DVD.  I cannot remember when we did not watch Friends.  I can honestly say that I know what happens in every show.  ( i know I am a looser).  

I remember when Logan was 2 years old and the song would come on and he would dance his heart out.  His hands would shake up and down, he would sway back and forth and bounce up and down!!!

Now, as we sit and watch Friends this is one of the times we cherish together.  My favorite part of our time is sitting on our love seat and spending time with him.  Logan's favorite part of course is the popcorn and m&ms.  

A little prayer

My mom called me today and told me that my grandma fell at her nursing home and they were calling the ambulance and taking her to the hospital.  She broke her shoulder and possibility her hip (x-ray have not come back yet).  They do not know if they will do surgery yet, depending on how bad it it.  Please keep her in your prayers in hopes everything goes well.

Too many hours

Last night my husband called me a name that I am not proud of and frankly it upsets me for it may be true- at least in the past couple of weeks.  You are probably asking yourself "what could he have called her"  And no, it is not the one he jokingly uses often (B**ch).  

 We just put the kids to bed and I came down stairs, grabbed my school bag and pulled out lesson plans from work.  As I sat down by the table, the phrase that I was not particularly happy to hear "Your a workaholic" came out of his mouth as he shakes his head.  I sat there and thought about it, and remembered how often I would be mad at my dad because he works so many hours in a day.  Are my kids thinking the same as I did as a child, or is my husband thinking "when is enough going to be enough"  I do admit that in the past couple of weeks I have put in way more hours than I should have.  Last week I worked 50 hours at work and then came home and did work at home.  The beginning of the school year is HELL.  

We have noticed that Kaitlyn has been so clingly to me lately, and I realize it is because I am never home, or when I am I am always working.  Tonight is the first night that I have not done work at home.  I left my bag in the car so I would not see it and think about all the things I have to do.  I really had a nice relaxing night, except for the dreaded supper time where Logan complain about what we are eating and Kaitlyn throws the food she does not like-pretty much everything.  Rob and I are starting to think that maybe we should feed them popcorn and Yo-Gos for supper, so we can eat in peace.  

Anyway, I want to thank Rob for bringing my work to my attention and to help me realize again that I have other things in life more important than work.  

Tomorrow is another day, and I will just keep plugging away, just not at home (hopefully).

Off to work

Well another school year has started for me.  I started teaching Pre-K again this year.  Today was the first day with the little kiddies, and it went really good.  I have two different classes and both are completely different, which keeps me on my toes.  I did not think I would feel this way, but I am really glad to be back in the classroom.  It has been a long time (1 month) since I have had the chance to play,I mean work with the children.  Rob always makes fun of me, because I will come home and say that I had such a busy day, and he will just laugh and "say how hard could it be to "play" with children all day."  Of course the one day that he came to visit me in my classroom he "caught" me sitting on the floor chatting with a child.  He says that my work looks really hard, and he has no sympathy for me since I get to sit and play with children all day.  I wish that is all I could do.  If you are a teacher, you know that we are over worked and under payed.  There is way more to what we do than what people see when they come into the room.  I don't want you to think that Rob is a cold hearted person when it come to my work.  He is really understanding when it come to helping me with getting things done for the room, or just listening to me complain about my day.  

You know, as I sit here typing this, I just think how blessed I am to have a wonderful family.  I know I complain about the kids, but for the most part they are wonderful and I am blessed to have both of them.  They are the light of my life and I thank God for them everyday.  Of course I do not want to forget about Rob.  You know, we have been married for 8 years but have been together for 12.  We have been through so much and have come A LONG way since our days at Pizza Hut.  We both are very proud of what we have  and what we have become, since we have worked so hard to get where we are.  I am going to leave with one last thought for the night:

Having somewhere to go is a home.  Having someone to love is a family.  Having both is a blessing!!