- Squirms is now a four year old.
- I have gained too much weight to be labeled a Trophy Wife, and, therefore, (is that too many commas?) have begun a full time job.
- The Great experienced his first day of school (aka preschool/daycare).
- We have a contract to buy a home.
- Items 1 - 4 happened within a time span of 7 days.
Yes. Valentines Day, our clever, stubborn, affectionate "tiny girl" turned four. Grandpa, Gran, Auntie H and her significant other traveled north (I just love saying that, we are north of people now!) to celebrate with us. We visited a children's museum, at which our children really only wanted to play trains, enjoyed lunch at a cafe several feet from an in use train track, and ate a Doc McStuffins themed cake.
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| Auntie H loves me. |
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| Presents before cake. |
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| Little Lady with her new tea set (Auntie C and Uncle T) and new table (Grandpa and Gran) |
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| How delicately she drinks.... |
The Friday before Valentines Day was my first official day at my new job and new company. This fall, when the Great turned two, I began praying about the possibility of returning to the work force. R was supportive and also began praying about it. I uploaded my resume to several interesting job descriptions and began the interview process for two different positions. The position I accepted felt like a gift and we have felt at peace about me working in this job. Plus, the end item of the project I'm on is a rocket. And that's just cool (technically, I think it's one of the coolest things I could have possibly worked on, and it's just fun to tell Squirms that's what mommy is working). Disclaimer: I'm not super cool and working design or actually torquing bolts, but I do get to be part of the project.
With this change came full time care for our angels. We are hopeful that full time care, or school as we are calling it, will be beneficial: providing structure, play time, and hands on learning opportunity. Squirms LOVES it. The Great is adjusting, but does tell us that "I played" when we picked him up and ask how his day was. The Great's teachers tell us that he has great verbal skills and knows his colors. I will admit that I was so concerned with buying work clothes, registration paperwork, house hunting, and R being on work travel that I almost forgot to take pictures on his first day of school. But I did remember, and while the shutter is still having issues, you can tell how handsome he looked. And how unimpressed with this development he was.
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| We're really doing this? |
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| Can I go home and play trains now? |
An online software tool that we use to track our budget sent me an email this week. It told me that we have spent $870 dollars on childcare/babysitting in the past month. And that we normally spend $5. And then the email message said "Might want to look into that".
We close on our new home at the end of March. I'm hoping that we will be able to see stars at night (even though we will only be ten minutes from the downtown church we've been visiting). We will have a guest room, hint hint Central Florida friends. We are looking forward to settling in and I'm especially looking forward to buying an address stamp.
Other updates include R going to a choir practice at a church we've been visiting, cheering Auntie C as she took the bar exam, a visit from Auntie L that included getting a manicure (helping me through the Great's first day of school), and lots of shopping from Ann Taylor clearance. Oh, and the Great has been using his nebulizer to vibe test his trains. Thomas the Train handles vibration well, and this method of test has shown a decisive difference in Thomas the Train official wooden trains and the Toys R Us brand wooden trains.
