Current mood:	lethargic
Current music:	GOF and dog lapping water in background

One breath at a time
I just realized I haven't posted here in nearly a month. Wow. I have, however, posted to my 360, as it's another set of friends who don't necessarily mind my boring life and ramblings, LOL. And I'm just the lazy sort that doesn't like to double post the same info, even if it is in two separate places.

I did venture down to southeastern Oklahoma to attend jenuwhine's wedding, which was a wonderful experience, outside my normal life and comfort zone. Met friends who I had only known online, which is always great and got to see real honest-to-God working cowboys! Of course, the only thing they were working on at the time was a case of beer, lol, but still, I enjoyed the view of Wrangler butt.

Other than that, work has been hectic. We've increased our enrollment at the daycare, which meant the hiring on of more teachers. Lots of new faces and I now have a class of over twenty children; luckily for me, I now have an aide. I've known her for a long time, worked with her at Head Start. The boss moved her from another classroom to mine and she's been very helpful. We've divided the paperwork and this week have gotten our routine down. She told my boss she didn't know how I managed my classroom alone for so long. Lots of experience and necessity, of course. But it is nice to have help and I don't feel quite so stressed at work.

On the home front, the girls both received straight A's on their report cards. My oldest already has her flight itinerary to visit her father and grandfather this summer; the lucky girl will be staying at a time share in Nantucket, visiting Boston, Martha's Vineyard and Concord as well as going kayaking! This will be her first time on the east coast since she was nine months old. I wish I was going with her!

My youngest is in a book club at school. I recently bought her the entire set of HP books, since she was continuously checking them out from the library (the only one we owned until now was HBP). She's already devoured four of the books in a matter of weeks! She's in fourth grade but at an eighth grade reading level. She keeps talking about the 7th book and the 5th movie, can't wait for either (and she's not alone!)

Samwise the Brave, my huuuuge puppy, is now almost eight months old and weighs about 75 pounds. What a monster! Unfortunately for me, he's developed a liking for the clothes baskets in my room. I came home to discover my underwear laying in the backyard!



I've been working on my house a bit, mainly the outside. My parents left quite a bit of stuff in the yard, shed and garage and I have been trying to sort through and clean out everything. I've weeded the flower beds, removed my mother's decorations and ornaments (I'm not too fond of ceramic ducks), moved lawn furniture, raked, cleaned off the back deck, etc, etc. I now have comfortable seating areas in both the front porch and the back deck; tomorrow I intend on repainting my rocking chair and park bench. Monday evening I came home and worked in the yard for three hours. Unfortunately, due to that I have had some major allergy problems since and you won't see me without a box of tissues in tow. *sniffle*

Right now I'm dosed with allergy medication as well as a lortab and I'm feeling all floaty and tired. But I did want to check in. lnalvgd, I'm thrilled you got to go to London to see Equus! I'm sure Dan was lovely and it sounds like you had a great view! thrihyrne, sorry I didn't repond to your latest email about editing, I've just been swamped. I owe you an email. (((Hugs!!!)))