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.

 

Christmas Decorating

 

FRIDAY after Thanksgiving we were still at my parents house.  Many years ago my mom was given a country inn village piece.  Ever since this has been a growning village with them adding pieces and expanding the village.  It now is so large it takes nearly a whole day to set up and fills an entire room.  A fun thing about the village is that it’s different each year.  Added pieces, being put in a new room and different arrangement of the pieces keeps it exciting to see each year.  Each year it’s put up right after Thanksgiving so this year was to be no different.  I began unpacking the pieces and dividing them as country or town pieces while mom began setting up tables and my dad was cutting boards to make table extensions.  We actually left before the whole thing was complete so it will be fun to go back closer to Christmas and see how it was finished this year. I don’t have any pictures at this time but I’ll try to get some posted sometime.

This began inspiring me to decorate my own place for the first time in years.  We were in a town the past 3 years that was 5 hours from home.  Noone would ever come visit (we always came home for a few weeks for the holidays) so there was no real reason for me to decorate.  This year being we live closer and having family that lives in the same town as us, there’s a chance we’ll have visitors so I’m going to decorate. I havn’t decorate in years so I’ve kinda forgotten a lot of what decorations I have. Also at the end of the holidays last year our friends were planning on going with a new theme and getting new stuff for the next year so they graciously gave us some of the decorations they were no longer going to be using.  Some of our stuff is still in storage at my grandparents and since decorating I’ve realized I’m missing some decorations so my decorations are a little sparse and only mostly in the living room area but they make me feel merry for the holidays. Here are some pictures. ENJOY!

 

The front door and catch all shelf. Joel complains about the santa hat blocking his view of the clock but I thought it was too cute to take down.  He was also disappointed to find that cookie tin was for decoration only and there were no cookies in it. He He!

The telephone shelf in the hallway between the two bedrooms

  

The backdoor/dining room/kitchen entry. The wreath was made by my mother from handprints of my students from my very first preschool class in 2006.

 

A few snowmen to smile at as I wash dishes

The sun makes it a little hard to see but it was too dark to take pictures at night. It’s a simple strand of white lights with silver tinsel. 

 

Despite the fact that we don’t use our dining room table, I really wanted to display these dishes.  It’s actually convenient since we don’t use the table I can keep the display set up at all times and don’t have to move it for meals.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 

GATHERING #1

Every year for Thanksgiving my grannie’s (maternal grandmother) family rents out the building my hometown neighborhood uses for community events. It’s a big open one room building with an old fashioned pot belly wood stove.  It was a large buffet table down the middle for tons of food which tends to be covered every time I’m there. This was one of our low number years with just over 30 people there.  We have some family from out of state that weren’t in travel health so we missed them this year.   I try my best to be good and not over heat but it’s so hard. since we do the meal pot luck style I want to try a little of it all. After the meal there are games and stories and picture sharing. Always a good time.

GATHERING #2

At the same time as my grannie’s meal is my husbands family meal.  This year we decided to split up.  I went to my family and he went to his.  After mine started slowing down I planned to leave and join his family.  Unfortunantly I didn’t get out soon enough and by time I got to town Joel said his family was going their separate ways.  So I just went to his grandparents house and was able to visit with his mom and grandparents for a while. Just visiting, no eating.  Probably not a bad thing, allow my stomach to rest. But knowing I had another meal to get to shortly I didn’t indulge in the desserts at my family meal planning to eat that part at his families gathering.  Oh well, though my sweet tooth suffered my tummy was probably thankful.

GATHERING #3

In order to accommodate all the other family gatherings my mom and dad saved their meal for supper time.  And because there would be so much turkey eating mom decided to go in another direction.  My sisters boyfriend planned to bring teriyaki wings he made so mom went for an Asian thanksgiving themed meal.  We had wontons and   It’s THURSDAY-maternal grandmother family, husbands missed but visited, my parents/sister,

Well I was too busy eating and visiting for any picture taking. Sorry.  But as always here’s my babies.

Bella chewing on her bone.

Chip chewing his bone and holding one in reserve LOL

The Week of Thanksgiving

Ok So I warned you in the last blog that it would be a while before I blogged again due to the Thanksgiving holiday and being away from the computer. I have made notes to myself to remind me what I can blog. I think I’ll break it down into a few shorter smaller (who are we kidding they will be lengthy) posts.  Please comment.  I want to know who (if anyone) is reading.  Are they too long, boring,tedious? I need some feedback.  If your comment doesn’t show up please email or Facebook me and let me know so I can fix things if there is a problem.

The SUNDAY before Thanksgiving I did some grocery shopping and bought some bottled water.  Ours tastes nasty.  My grandpa calls it “turtle tracks”. So we have been taste tasting various sources of water to find the best tasting. My “big” project of the day was rearranging the lights in the living room for optimal lighting. As I have stated before I’m a crafter and a tv watcher.  I have to have light pointed directly at me from behind so my hands don’t make shadows on my work. From “my spot” in the corner of the couch where I can rest my right arm on the arm rest the light leaves a terrible glare on the tv.  So I have moved the tv into the corner of the room at an angle and have added some lighting.  In order to get the best light behind me in the middle of the couch I had to do some creative set up.  Can anyone figure out what I used as my behind the couch “table”?

    

     (Bella in corner, TV mid wall)                           (Bella mid wall, TV in corner)

                               

(“table’ behind couch, tall lamp farthest from “my spot”, small lamp directly over my left shoulder, 3 bulb lamp over right shoulder)

MONDAY started early.  To be off for Thanksgiving Joel’s work has revamped their hours for the week.  He is working 3 days for 10 hours starting at 6 a.m.  We live about 20 minutes from his work, and he’s a slow riser so that mean up at 5 every day this week.  Thank goodness I was able to go back to bed. LOL since the schools are closed this week for the holidays.

The weather was forecasting rain but it was only a light drizzle so I ran out to take care of some business. My luck that was when it began to pour. I could hardly see the road, wipers going like crazy. 

I have no notes from TUESDAY and it’s been so long I can’t remember what I did then. Probably nothing much.

As soon as Joel got home WEDNESDAY afternoon we were heading home for Thanksgiving with our families. I spend the morning getting the house ready to sit empty for a few days.  Early afternoon I started packing. We had intentionally not said anything to the dogs cause they go crazy. Well still not saying anything, only getting out the suitcases they knew something was up.  They kept looking at me as if to ask “What’s going on?  you don’t use those things much.”  As I got several things packed and began stacking them in the Living Room to go to the car, they got the idea and started going crazy running around the house.  They knew we were going on a trip.  Though they hate the trip no matter how long or short they love the idea of “going”.  We were able to head out shortly after 5 and we were only going 2 hours away.  Much easier trip than the 5 hours we’ve done the last 3 years.  however due to the time change it’s dark by 5.  Our entire trip was in the dark which made me tired and made it feel like a 5 hour trip.

                     

(I couldn’t get a good picture of their crazy running around, this was the best to show their eagerness to head to Grammie’s)

 

Well this is long enough so I’ll put the holiday/vacation festivities in another blog. Catch it too.

Bella

I realized there wasn’t a picture of Bella in this post.  If I didn’t come back and add a picture of her I don’t think I’d hear the end of it from her Grammie.

Why did I bother planning?

SATURDAY- We had a nice but short visit with my grandparents. Shortly after they got here they said they wanted to do some shopping  and wanted me to chauffer.  Being a bigger town there are more store options and some competitive pricing for items.  The thanksgiving turkey was bough here because of the lower cost.  We got in from shopping just in time to watch the Razorback game.  I made supper while Grannie hemmed some of my pants that were too longs  and Joel and Pop watched the full game. I listened and watched while things were cooking.

(This is a picture from Saturday night of Chip begging to get out of the bedroom and see my grandparents. He cracked me up so much I can to get my phone to take a picture.)

SUNDAY-Since I had worked so hard Saturday cleaning for the grandparent visit I decided I was doing nothing Sunday.I stayed in my PJ’s all day. We left briefly to put gas in Joel’s truck and get a newspaper so I could cut out the coupons.  Only to discover they take out the coupons if you buy it from a stand and are not subscribed. Bummer.

MONDAY- I didn’t have any work scheduled so planned to have some computer time then get to house cleaning.  Just as I was finishing up on the computer I got some personal news that upset me and I spent the rest of the day in a haze between crying and trying to work out and fix the issues.  Needless to say no housework was done.

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY- I was back in preschool.  It wasn’t a bad day but it wasn’t great. LOL  not to far into the first day I remembered why I left preschool to begin with. It was nice to have a fairly easy schedule with playing in centers, PE time, and a long nap the day sped by.  The downside is it’s preschool.  Lots of tattling, very little attention during the lesson and they had no concept of walking quiet down the hall in a line.  Yes to some that’s not a big deal but to my very particular and organized self it all grated my nerves and I came home each day wore out and with a huge headache.

   

WEDNESDAY- I only worked for the morning and had planned to come home eat lunch and clean house. No such luck I was wiped out I came in took a nap and just watched tv.  I did go hang out with my cousin for a little bit.  We didn’t do much a quick trip to SAMS CLUB then just chattin.

THURSDAY- I was not scheduled to work anywhere so had all plans to clean house this day but Wednesday evening I got a call from the Elementary school to sub. As much as I needed the day at home to clean, grocery shop and cook I had to work.  #1 because I can’t turn a day of work. Any bit to add to the paycheck. ( I got my first paycheck for the half day that went in this pay period and it was a whooping $22.) #2 I’ve been desperately waiting to sub at the Elementary school. That is 2,3,4th grades. Exactly where I want to be.  I was in a 3rd grade classroom. This confirmed my thoughts.  If I teach I want 2,3,or 4th.  I felt it was a chore in preschool but this experience was great. I absolutely loved it. I actually had 2 classes because at this school they chance between 2 classes. I had my homeroom  for like 15 minutes then they went to a teacher for Reading, Spelling and English. Then switch back to their home room (me) for Math, Science and Social Studies.  I hope now that I’ve been there once they will call me more often.

Well despite working a full day I felt pretty good when I got home. Since I had the energy I had intentions to finally get on the house cleaning.  Well as this post is titled, “ Why did I bother planning?” I came in, change out of my work clothes and got the the kitchen to get started.  Only to find a water main was busted and we had no water til 7 p.m. Yet again no housework done.

FRIDAY- I worked all day at preschool and it was physically agonizing.  They were having a safety fair where the classes rotated around the school meeting and learning from the local police officers, forest rangers, fire fighters and ambulance drivers.  By the end of the day my head was throbbing so bad I wanted to cry.

SATURDAY- Finally got around to cleaning house. It needed it, I would have been so embarrassed if anyone had come by. The thing is it didn’t even take me all that long to get the work done.  In about an hour I had a load of laundry going, the dishwasher loaded and running, another load that I hand washed the bed made and the newspaper strewn around the living room end tables picked up.  I then was able to watch some tv and get back to crosstitching. Got a nap and a shower in before the Razorback game started.

 

So here I am on the computer and watchin the game.  Searching the crowd for my too lucky cousin who got to go to the game. After blogging and checking email and facebook I’ll do some coupon searching.  After the game I’ll go pick up a few groceries for the short week.

I’m still not used to the idea of taking pictures of things to post.  This week I scrapped up some stuff offline to color up my blog but I’ll try to get better.

We will be in our hometown next weekend for Thanksgiving so probably no blog til the following week.  Until then….

Feeling the need for some routine

 

SUNDAY-I was laying in bed this night and felt the room shake a little.  It was odd and I remember thinking if we were on the top level or had before felt unsteadiness it would be understandable but neither of these are true.  I joked maybe it was the earth a shakin.  Low and behold I later found out it was indeed an earthquake.  First I’ve ever experienced. My grandparents are coming to visit next weekend.  My grandmother knows I am into crafting and I’m sure she’ll ask to see my progress. I have been crosstitching a lot lately preparing a Christmas present for my her.  So to prepare something to show her I have jumped in over the weekend and will continue this week with doing some other crafts that I can show her.  Hope it’ll work  and I don’t have to say ‘look don’t you remember what you always told us as kids that around the holiday’s you just don’t ask too many questions?” I hope she’ll just be impressed with what I’ve done so far and I can get her distracted in that.

 

           

                   (over flowing craft basket)

MONDAY- I’m going to try this week to not go back to bed after Joel goes to work to get me a bit of a routine going.  It was a good thing I got up and began doing my housework early on.  My dad is in town at my “Texarkana grandparents” (his mom and dad/my step grandparents). He called and asked if I wanted run around town and do some errands with him.  I don’t spend much time with my dad, and I knew if I stayed home I’d just finish my house work and sit around crafting and watching tv so out I went with dad. Nothing spectacularly interesting for me.  He is setting up a home business of welding so we went around town so he could do some price checking. I got home a little after noon, ate lunch, napped and did my form of relaxing, watching tv and crafting.  I’m making good progress on my crafts for Christmas presents. 

TUESDAY-I finally got completely set up on the substitute website with 2 local districts. As well as expanded my sub availability to the preschool and middle schools in hopes to add some jobs. I’m not getting as much work at this point as I had hoped and something’s got to change.  Other than this my day was pretty routine, well my current lazy version of routine. LOL The afternoon/evening did get a little rocky with the weather turning bad.  Nothing bad where we are at just rainy.  But there were tornado’s south of us heading in our direction and wasn’t sure where it would stop. Also a tornado was near enough our home town that they held the kids from getting on the busses until the weather stabalized.  I never heard anymore so I guess things didn’t turn out too terrible anywhere.

WEDNESDAY- I had my first experience at middle school today.  It was so so. Being middle school the students do change classes so the nice things with that is that I only had each class for 45 minutes at a time.  The teacher had left work so basically I just passed it out and monitored that the students were on task.  The morning classes were really good. The afternoon classes were a little more talkative and disrespectful.  However I stood my ground. I let them know I was boss and they were going to treat me with respect and accept what I say goes and not grumble at me. Despite really not doing a lot of activity as you would with elementary level I was wore out.  I came in, popped a frozen pizza in the oven an sat on the couch just staring at the tv for a few hours.  I didn’t even craft.  I was in bed by 8:30 that night. 

THURSDAY- Well again I stayed up after Joel went to work. Yeah me! However, I didn’t go farther than that to actually get real work done.  Since I didn’t have any out of the house work set up for the day I thought I had time to get things done later.  I ended up watching tv and playing around on the computer for hours until my dad called to come use my printer.  I jumped up, dressed and started straightening up a little.  We have been doing really good keeping the house clean. Usually after supper I don’t do much so being that I’m not working full time I take care of things the next morning.  Well since I worked Wednesday the house hadn’t been “cleaned” since Tuesday. I felt it was a mess, though it must have not been that bad because once I jumped in and tackled it I was done within an hour. This not working full time out of the house on a regular basis I’m falling into a lazy pattern.  I must get myself in a better routine so when I do work it doesn’t kick my tail.

(Clothes folded but still on the kitchen table, mine and joel’s lunch boxes, my school bag…AAAAGGGGGHHH! the mess)

FRIDAY- Today I was back at the Primary school (K-1) in PE. This was a good subbing experience. Nice because I had lots of kids not just 1 group all day.  The rough parts were-- it’s little little kids ,2 classes at a time so 30-45 kids at a time, for a whole hour, in PE. I am one of those structured, organized, ordered teachers.  (My teacher friends reading this don’t hold it against me)  The wildness that comes with PE was  um..different for me.  Also I’m used to teaching all subjects so what I do all day is different.  When you teach just 1 subject it’s a repeat all day of the same lesson, recitation, and exercising. REDUNDENT for a teacher used to variety throughout the day. However I do now know that a coke is 150 calories and has 3 times more sugar than children need and even 2 times more than an adult needs. I also got further proof in my belief that rote memorization/ recitation does work in some cases. Each week they have identified another bone of the body.  Every PE session (2 a week) they recite all the bones they’ve learned to date.  I was amazed at how many of these kindergarten and first graders could name and locate so many bones.  Many that I myself couldn’t even name.  A plus of being in PE I was VERY active.  I did a lot of walking around that big gym tying shoes, encouraging kids to participate and quail arguing. I don’t know if it was the force to be out of the house and going, the physical activity level of PE, or that my body is getting more into routine but I came home and was not dead on my feet.  It was nice.  Now if next week will be as good.

SATURDAY-Now that I have spent plenty of time on the computer I must get up and do some deep cleaning. My grandparents will be here in a few hours.  I want it to be spic and span (or Mr. Clean, or Fabuloso, or Lysol--whatever cleaning supplies are in the cabinet lol)clean in here, and have some food prepared.  I also hope to have enough time to continue adding to my craft supply so grannie doesn’t question what I’ve been doing with my free time since I can’t show her my original craft project.  So I must get off the couch and get going.

Until next week…

 

  

(Bella telling me to get off the computer and take her out and Chip just looking cute)

Luck is coming up! So is my crafting bug :)

MONDAY- My great aunt doesn’t work on Mondays so several times since I’ve moved to the area we’ve gotten together on Mondays. This week we went to a flower nursery down the road for her to get some plants, wondered around kmart for a while then headed to a near by consignment shop.  It’s a cute little shop just around the corner from my house and has some nice things.  I held my self back from getting clothes I don’t really need right now but I did find some black dressy flats that I’ve been needing for work. Came home but had gone too long without eating I guess and ended up with a headache. One of those that even napping wouldn’t shake and I couldn’t do much more for the rest of the day.

TUESDAY- Nothing much today. I picked up a few things from Walmart for a few meals. Got another pair of dressy flats, these brown to match the rest of my “business casual” color scheme. For supper I planned to make this french bread pizza that we enjoy. It’s super easy and really yummy.   After pulling it out of the oven I realized I skipped the tomato sauce that goes between the bread and the cheese.  So instead of pizza we had cheesy bread sticks but it was still good.  We just dipped it into the skipped tomato sauce.

WEDNESDAY- Got up early today to get the house cleaned because the water would be turned off for a few hours due to maintance. Finally got confirmation from my second district I’ve been working to sub in that they had approval and were setting me up in the online system. As a teacher I was always sure to leave PLENTY of work when I was gone.  But I know many subs don’t.  So I want to be prepared with my own “sub bag” of activities.  I plan to make up a bag with some fun color/activity sheets, age appropriate academic worksheets as well as a list of my educational games that I can input their current work to play.  I’m also taking a few books with me.  There is so much you can do with a book that should fill time if needed.

THURSDAY- Well there was no sleeping in today either.  For one my family thinks since they are all awake and at work (despite me not having work) that I too should be awake.  So once they all get to work they text me.  Mom, husband, cousin.  All of them. LOL I was just about to doze back off and maintance began banging around.  The man that lived upstairs has moved out and they are now cleaning up and fixing things. Thumping on the floor, dropping things, hammering and even using a hand saw all right about my head.  Yeah right, no more sleep for me. Did the usual around the house, pick up, check facebook and computer, then watched tv and worked on my crafts. After Joel got home to take over puppy duty I went out on the town.  I met my cousin and we went shopping.  Well mostly we just looked but we did pick up a few things.  I was needing some jewlery to go with my “business casual” work attire.  Found some I’m really anxious to get to ,]wear. We also stopped in at my new favorite store Hobby Lobby. I looked, dreamed and bought a few things.  Nothing for me though.  In hopes to reduce the heavy costs that Christmas entails, and to scratch my craft bug, I am attempting to make me of the gifts.  I was out late but as always I had a good time hanging out with my cousin.

FRIDAY- When I got home Thursday night my husband said he had looked on my substitute website and found me a job for half day Friday afternoon.  I was so excited I had my first job. Naturally as my luck works, I got a call from the school early Friday morning wanting to know if I could come in for a whole day sub.  Unfortunately because I’d already accepted a half day I couldn’t’ change. My luck that all this time nothing and basically 2 offers in one day.Well since it was only a half day and my first day I thought I’d go ahead and wear my heels.  MISTAKE! I came home with screaming feet. They hurt so bad. The sub job was good though.  I was actually subbing as a teachers aide. I’m excited to be back to work and in the classroom only if it’s a day here and there and with various classes.

SATURDAY- Well I had hoped after a nights sleep my feet/legs would be better but no such luck.  So therefore today will mostly be spent on the couch.  Not out of laziness as usual but in hopes that staying off my legs the pain will ease up. I won’t complain.  I have Christmas crafts to make and a DVR to empty.  (I’m at over 90% full.  Must empty a bit before next weeks shows start.  ) 

I’m not ready to put up pictures of my craft projects, though I am taking pictures of before and during to post with the after pictures later. I took pictures of my new shoes on my cell phone then had to send it off for repair so oops forget those pictures. Took a picture of the puppies cuddled in blankets on a chilly morning but it was too dark you can hardly see it.  So sadly this is a picture less blog today.  I must try to find my charger for the real camera so I’ll be more apt to take pictures.

--Until next time, have a good week!