Monday, January 17, 2011

School's Out Today...

...so we're lazy... for us.

The boys decided to move Wakko from downstairs to upstairs. This would be great, except it means that my craft room is no more. Oh, well! At least fights should be reduced... right? Yakko's just as happy as Wakko is; let's hope this works!

Dot's still doing make-up homework. Twenty three assignments done (this weekend) and only seven to go!

Mindy's trying the potty-training thing again today. Not bad for being 20 months old!

I am working on organizing and creating outlines for this week's business and watching baking shows.

Lazy!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Happy, Crazy, Busy New Year

If the first two weeks of 2011 are any indication of how the year's going to be, I think we're in for a wild ride.

The end of the quarter at school is this week... so my procrastinators (who shall remain unnamed) are spending all weekend busily working on missing assignments.

The "teaching-100-hours-a-month thing" is wearing me out, or making me tough... yet to be decided. I love living the dream and working so hard on something that has great potential; it's pretty exciting. However, I am so crunched for time that I hardly see my friends who aren't at the studio any more. Sad, but I hope they all understand. Between teaching, substitute teaching, planning concerts and meeting, advertising, ordering, picking costumes, cleaning, doing data entry, and choreographing, I'm pretty swamped. My house is showing signs of neglect, but it's all good. Girls' nights are only a memory. Free time is nearly extinct. Thank goodness I have such a great support network!

We surprised my mom with a birthday party for her with all of her natural kids here! (I am hoping to down-load pics soon for it.) It was lots of fun to have everyone here; it would only have been better had all the others (you know who, M and kids!) would have been here. Mom was truly surprised; Dad was so cute to work so hard with us to make it special. Nate cooked up an awesome dinner (no surprise, Master Chef!) and Kim organized the entire night. Tiffanie had a fun game with nice prizes, and Natalie came up to be a part of it all. Troy and our kids worked really hard to get the house ready and keep things flowing. It was fun!

Mindy is potty training, and is too smart for her own good! No details needed... we'll leave it at good enough knowing that she has really good manners. I'll do my best to get a recording of her saying "skewz me!" Too cute!

We were all treated extremely well for Christmas. Again, I'll post pictures some day.

Okay, time to go again. Yahoo for a new year!