I have not forgotten that I have a blog. Promise. But life, it happens. Can’t help that much! March Madness, indeed, although it has nothing to do with basketball. Actually, I don’t give a rat’s hind end about basketball.
Anyways, here’s the update, mixed in with a few stories, happy, sad, and otherwise. I try to write every week, sorry for the epic fail on that part lately! When I write posts like these, I type a quick list of things I want to mention so I don’t forget anything. And since bullets won’t cut it, I left the list as headings. Aren’t you lucky?
Grad school
I’m going back to graduate school. I cannot decide if I’m excited or scared to death, really. College wasn’t exactly “hard” for me-school never really has been-I love learning and I’m what some people call smart, I guess. But then in college I didn’t have a career and two small children. I did, however, have a spouse and a full-time job, and most undergrad students didn’t have those and still got crummy grades, while I got good ones. So I guess maybe things will pan out?
I’m going to get my “Master of Arts in Educational Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on Talent Development Education.” Holy crap if that isn’t a mouthful. Basically it means that a) I can collect from the Master’s step payscale in my district and b) I can teach gifted kids. People say I’m crazy for wanting to teach gifted kids, but I think it just takes a special person. Also? I was one. So I understand the inherent weirdness.
Grandpa
In early March my husband lost his paternal grandfather. He was a fantastic, wonderful man. He was magnificent to Kirk throughout his life, and he welcomed me into the family with open arms. The great granddaughters we gave him brought him tons of joy, and I know he’ll be a great guardian angel for them. He was a man that treated everyone kindly and smiled all the time. There aren’t many like him these days, and he will be so greatly missed. Rest in peace and with love, Grandpa H.
Baby
Sometime in the next year, we are planning another baby. There are days when my daughters have the screaming tantrums and I think “No way could I handle three.” Fortunately, those days are few and far between and most days I just want a third child to love. I think it will be vastly different from the first two-Corinne was the first, so she was the only kiddo to juggle for a while (Which is good-turns out there’s quite the learning curve on babies. Who knew?)
Ashlynn came along when Corinne was 2 1/2, so we had a baby and a toddler, which was…interesting. By the time this baby comes along, Corinne will be 6 (6!) and in kindergarten and Ashlynn will be almost four and in preschool. Quite the difference! Of course, this all depends on the timing of things. Although sometimes I worry that maybe Ashlynn and baby #3 will be too far apart…hmmmm. For now we are just enjoying the lack of diapering occurring in our house.
Spider Fell on me
Yep. Yesterday a spider fell on me. I opened our garage door and when I walked in to get the wagon, a spider freaking FELL ON ME. FROM THE CEILING. ONTO ME. So since yesterday at about five o’clock, every time a hair touches me or my clothes fall weird I turn into a ninja and attempt to jump out of my own clothing. It’s happened like six times since I started typing this. Hardy har.
Poop story
Well with that little header I’ll just bet you are excited to read this. Ashlynn hasn’t shown up on here as having as many hilarious conversations as Corinne, but trust me-they are happening more and more frequently. And the potty training hasn’t helped. (I was kind of hoping to avoid the obsessed-with-potty-humor phase since I have girls, but this is not to be so.)
Ashlynn: (from the bathroom) Mom, I’m done, come help me wipe!
Me: Coming!
Ashlynn: And don’t use your finger!
Me: <gags> Ew! WHAT?! I am not going to use my finger!
Ashlynn: And don’t eat it.
Me: Ashlynn Cari, don’t SAY things like that!!
Game of Thrones
Well gah. How can Game of Thrones be exciting after that poo story? Believe it or not, it can be. Someone told me the show is good, and since AT&T screwed up our bill, we have free HBO so woohoo! And it IS a good show. But more importantly, it’s based on books! Books, people! 3,188 pages in the first four volumes alone! So good, thick, fat, juicy books! Yeehaw! I cannot wait to begin this series as a reader. Although I must admit it totally goes against the grain to read after watching. So I’m excited for the books to fill in the gaps from the show.
Yes, I promise to blog again before I finish the series. Gah. What? You think I’m blog delinquent or something?
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