I thought it was time for a few new pics, and I actually have some so...


This is the little Miss being a little miss. In case you were wondering the stuff hanging off her waist at the back is a camisole and a bra - and we didn't help her put them on. She also made her way in to my closet and chose a very flashy pair of heels to finish off the outfit. One of her new favorite activities is to wear our shoes, and I mean she really puts them on and walks around.


Just a sweet shot of her after playing on our bed last Saturday morning. She and Daddy were playing hide and go seek in the covers.



A favorite of mine - getting caught red handed trying to grab some juice boxes left here by her cousins.


Eme "the Artiste" - she loves to draw and does some everyday at daycare. I gave her a golf pencil and an excercise book the other morning and she went to town. So great! Next is the easel and washable markers.

Last but not least.... thankfully a not too common occurance around here anymore. But when you wake up at 5:00 and it is already 8:30, and you are only 1, you want a nap!

In case I haven't mentioned it I now have two continuing jobs - at two schools. One is afternoons 5 days a week at a middle school (grades 6,7 & 8) teaching tech ed (basically perspective drawing and an simlified computer assisted drawing program) and the other is 3 mornings a week at an elementary school as a librarian. So both are great, although very different. Both staffs are amazing which makes it much easier. This will be great for this year and will also set me up nicely for next year... not to mention that it looks like my days of 5:30 am call outs are over. Yippee!

Love to all - I will try and post very shortly after the traditional Thanksgiving Long Beach weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving

XO

Onward and upward...

It is not easy it seems for me to have new photos for you to enjoy. First off, I loathe to mention that I am spending far less time with my dear sweet one than before and secondly the pictures I have been taking lately are on film and although I am getting them on CD also, so that I can show you, I have had to go back to the processor 3 times now for dust spots and so the CD's go back too.

SO... other things that are mentionable. I have a job; two jobs actually. Silly me for thinking I wasn't going to get work - as it is lately it is too many job offers that is causing me the stress. So I am working 5 afternoons in a middle school, teaching perspective drawing and a computer drafting program, and 3 mornings a week are spent at an elementary school down the road as a librarian. The whole thing is rather convenient actually, as my home, daycare and jobs are all within 5 square kilometers. They actually literally make a square.

So I am doing a little something new and a little something old - both in new places. The staff at both schools are great so... it should be a nice year. Now if I could just figure out when to fit in the excercise and other Mommy times for mental sanity.

Eme is doing well; better everyday with her daycare. Julie (her daycare provider) is great and so are her 3 girls (6, 9, and 11) and they all love Eme (of course). This helps me in eleviating some of the guilt that I suffer from, but in my heart know is neccessary for us at the moment in order to do right for our family in the long run.

Phil put in it well the other day when we were having yet another conversation about our choices and how we are doing. He said if we can help our kids when they are in our position; be debt free from school, offer free daycare, take the kids overnight, be a support and generally do what parents and grandparents do to help their kids get off to a good start it will all be worth it.
We can make the choices we have to now, and spend every moment possible just being together and in the end we will build a support system that will be unbreakable. So... that is the goal - onward and upward and lots of snuggles along the way.

Yikes - time flies

This will be brief and I fear that no picture will be attached at this time, but I wanted to let you all know that we are still here. Life has been really frenetic around here lately. Eme started daycare and I started work on the first day of school. This was not expected at all so the time I would have normally spent getting myself geared up for this was spent wondering when I might actually get a call to a school. Instead the phone rang on Monday night and I was in a job on Tuesday morning and have been ever since. It is afternoons at a middle school, which doesn't sound like much, but when everything has changed it is alot to come up with a program when you find out Monday what you are supposed to start teaching on Tuesday.

Beyond that I have been trying to wrap my head around the fact that there are 3 other postings that I may have a shot at and am trying to figure out how that will work into the life plan.

Eme is doing pretty well at daycare so far, each day seems a little easier for her (but not for me yet...)

I will try and post some of the pictures from her first birthday party which was nice.. she did very well for having 30 people in her house, and eating her first cupcake ever, and even mamaged to unwrap her presents with a little help.

Hope you are all well and getting some of this last bit of sunshine in the bloodstream - enough to last the winter.

Looking forward to visits sooner than later if at all possible.

Who am I kidding I can't not have a picture of her cuteness..... more to come hopefully within a reasonable time frame.

XOX