Be sure to read both posts….

For some reason It posted March’s update then December-Janurary’s update on top of that.  So be sure to keep going and read the second one because it’s new also.

December- Janurary catch up blog

Well I could make plenty of excuses of why I havn’t blogged since before Christmas but no point in wasting your time.  Suffice it to say I’m here now and going to try much better to be consistent with my postings.  For this blog I’ll briefly update you on what’s been going on in the past few months. 

DECEMBER- We went to our hometown for a few days and had several gatherings with our families.  In the past Joel’s not been working and I have gotten 2 weeks off for Christmas break.  Now with Joel working we only get a few days off to go home for visits.  But we are now SOOO much closer to home we can go home more often and my family comes to visit a lot.

JANURARY- My cousin’s maternal grandmother passed away so my grandparents came to town for the funeral.  They stayed with us.  Though we spent most of the time at the viewing or services we did have a little time just to sit at home and visit and watch the puppies devour their papaw. 

The beginning of Janurary I FINALLY got sub training for 2 more districts and began with some single day subbing situations.  Then one day, at the end of Janurary, by pure luck I got a single day job that turned into a 6 week long term situation in one classroom.  Turned out the teacher had to have emergency surgery and would be out 6 weeks for recovery.  I worked from the end of Janurary till the beginning of March.

FEBRUARY- We didn’t do much in February because I was back to working every day and very much out of shape and routine so I wanted to spend my weekends lazing on the couch and had to spend some weekend time cleaning house that wasn’t getting done during the week.

Early February my mom came to visit for my birthday.  We just stayed around the house.  A typical and perfect visit for us is taking turns on the computer, playing the wii, playing scrabble on my kindle and just talking. 

Well March was pretty busy so I’ll save that for it’s own post.  I apologize for an all words post.  My camera quit working and we have gone down to just one cell phone which Joel takes to work.  So I have no way to take pictures.  However my mom recently loaned me her old camera.  I hope to take lots of pictures so I’ll have things to post. I know pictures makes a blog more interesting.

Here are some picture of my babies though.

Bella with her head buried in the pillows.  I guess my light was in her eyes.

Chip guarding both of the bones so Bella can’t get them.

March catch up blog

 

MARCH- Within the first few days of March my long term subbing ended.  Though I have been teaching full time for the past 5 years, I didn’t work at all from June-September.  Then from September -Janurary I only worked individual sub days usually no more than 3 days a week.  So being back to full time all day every day for 6 weeks I was WORE OUT!  Once that was over I planned to take a whole week of not working to rest up.  But a few days in to that I missed getting out of the house and having something to do so I picked up a few individual days again.

As I said earlier we are now much closer to our hometown, where both our families live, so we go home more often and my family comes to visit a lot.  Early March my grandparents came to spend a few hours with us.  They were on their way to a church in Quitman, TX that is connected with ours.  They tend to stop in Texarkana for the night to stay with family as a half way point.  Since they had stayed with us in Janurary they chose this visit to stay with my great aunt (grannie’s little sister) but they spent a few hours with us me. (Unfortunanlty for him but nice on the paychecks, Joel’s been working Saturday’s lately so he missed my grandparents) We drove down to the lake that’s like 15 minutes from my house to explore because my grandmothers family reunion will be there this summer.

A weekend later we went home for a visit.  We hadn’t been home since Christmas.  Also we had an old friend that had moved out of state coming into town for that weekend as well so we wanted to see her and her baby. On short 2 day weekend visits like these Joel and I usually split up and spend the time with our own families.  He dropped me and the dogs off at my grandparents and he went to his grandparents.  I visited with my grandparents for a few hours then headed to my parents (who live right down the road). The dogs enjoy going their because my parents have lots of dogs they can play with.  Also my parents have a fenced in dog pen connected to the house with a ramp and their own doggy door.  My dogs are able to come and go as they please and not have to be leashed and taken out. I’m definantly not complaining lol. Saturday I got up and went to my friends house to visit.  They moved just a few weeks after her baby was born so at around 7 months old she’s babbling and crawling and so much bigger than when I saw her last. This friendship is fairly new and has an interesting background.  This girl is actually my sister’s age and they are very close friends.  Years ago the two were practically inseparable.  Christina and I didn’t fight or anything we just never really spent time together.  I guess the jealous pull of each wanting their own time with my sister.  But as we’ve all gotten older we’ve gotten over that and Christina and I have spent a bit of time together.  Interesting the turns life makes.  Anyways move visiting and game playing with my family before heading home Sunday.

Last week was Arkansas’ spring break.  To work with my mom’s given time off my dad had a back surgery scheduled for that Tuesday in Dallas. However his surgery was postponed. But he then had another doctors appointment in Dallas on Friday.  Since they originally planned to be away from home for the week they decided to continue on their spring break away from home.  My dad stayed with his parents, here in Texarkana and my mom came and stayed with me.  So my mom was here from Tuesday afternoon all the way to Friday morning.  We had a WONDERFUL time! I love spending time with my mom.  As I said in a previous blog a perfect visit for us is just talking, playing the wii,taking turns on the computer and playing scrabble on my kindle.  This long visit was no different.  Though Thursday we did go to Hobby Lobby for some home décor supplies.  We spent Thursday afternoon crafting and decoration my house.  Pictures to come soon.

Here are my sleeping babies.  They wrestle and play for a while and wore themselves out. If I’m sitting on the couch and Bella is stretched out there’s little room for Chip so he lays on the back of the couch. Here the pillows were stacked so he could rest his head on them but often he lays behind me with his head on my shoulder.