Its been 2 months since I've posted anything to this blog, so I figured I'd add a quick update!
I've been keeping myself busy the last couple months. I have been substitute teaching at the N-P High School since last fall, and with the last few weeks of school winding down I have also been putting in a few days at the middle school. The kids are all anxious for summer break, but it amazes me what that means at different ages!! The high schoolers seem to be in 'whatever happens to my grade happens, I'm outta here' mode, and the middle schoolers are just bouncing off the walls wishing they were anywhere but in school. And the elementary kids (ie Aiden) are just wishing they could go play outside all day!
My Mary Kay business has been keeping me very busy as I work toward my goal of becoming a Sales Director and driving a MK Career Car...for free. I have been meeting lots of wonderful new women and trying to soak in and apply everything my awesome director (and adopted director) has been teaching me. Of course applying it doesn't always go exactly as planned, but I've heard (and am now discovering for myself) that if you wait for all the stop lights to be green to move you'll never leave the driveway. So I'm taking one step at a time and doing my best to make my best better. I've found that for me, scheduling multiple parties in one day or evening works better. I can leave the house once, pack all my stuff up once, be all anxious about forgetting something once, miss supper and bedtime once, and meet twice as many women.
I have also been enjoying my time at MOPS in Charles City 2 Tuesdays a month, and I am VP for the Nashua Women of Today this year (which means I just need to be at meetings and do whatever our wonderful and on top of it Pres tells me to do!!)
Aiden has 1 week of kindergarten left, and by 1 week, I mean he has a field trip, a fun day, an awards program, and a little kindergarten left this year! I think the elementary teachers have figured out that if the kids are going to be all wound up anyway, you might as well squeeze in all the miscellaneous activities that throw the kids out of routine into the last 3 weeks of school. Last week they had their spring concert, and Aiden even had a solo in one of the kindergarten songs (ask him to sing it for you sometime). Yesterday was the bike rodeo, and Aiden did great once one of the officers helped him get started on his new bike (he's still growing into it almost a year later) Next time we'll take him with us to pick out a new bike!
I've lost track of how many fish he has caught, but (thankfully) they haven't been big enough to keep and cook yet. Aiden loves to take Zoe down to the pond and let her run around chasing whatever it is that by the pond, and he does great running with her when she's on her leash. He has grown up a lot this past year and has become an even better helper with projects. Last weekend Brian & his dad planted trees and Aiden did an awesome job of watering all 100 trees when they finished, and he planted almost all the seeds for our vegetable garden yesterday after school while I chased Connor around.
Connor keeps growing too. He has learned that word that 2 year olds love so much...no! He even shakes his head when he says it if he really doesn't want to do something. He's becoming much more particular about what goes on around him. The clothes he wears, what he has for breakfast, which doors should be open or closed. We have finally found something that he is willing to sit for... books!! Especially when he is getting tired he'll grab a book and say 'read' and climb into the comfy chair. Of course it has to be the book HE picked out and the chair he chooses to sit in though. He really seems to like going to daycare while I'm at school and a couple mornings while I work on my to-do list since there is no accomplishing anything but playing trucks and Lego's when he's home. There are other kids his age to play with and he is definitely becoming more independent. He cried this morning because he had to leave Vickie's, he used to cry when he had to stay!
Brian is loving the warmer weather and the fact that they haven't been working more than 20 minutes from home all month. Our weekly menu usually has something grilled at least a couple nights a week and after the boys go to bed he'll head down to the pond to go fishing while I work in the office. The lack of beverages on the hour drive home from work and being able to be outside more has definitely made a difference in his waistline. Somehow I can workout 3 days a week for 6 months and not lose more than a couple pounds, but he can drop almost 20 in a couple months by sleeping in longer!
(Yes, I know its 80% diet, 20% exercise, I'm just not ready to give up food) I have however added a couple more days of running trying to get ready to run a 5k in Des Moines for Dam to Dam. And I am attempting to stick to the BodyByVi shakes once a day, but it kinda goes back to that whole food thing...
OK, so this is a bit longer than a quick update, and I've got stuff to do while Connor is napping, so
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