About our Week

Well it’s been a week since I made our blog and surprisingly quite a bit has happened. Greg was promoted and will be supervising college enrollment and communications. It’s a step up and he will still get to be the Ambassador advisor. So he is excited. He will be supervising quite a few people which is good experience. I just want to know what he’s getting paid and we don’t know yet. (Money isn’t everything to me, but we are buying a house in just over a month!) They had the Ambassador reward dinner on Saturday and it was so fun to hear the students talk about how he and the program have made such a difference in their lives. Getting that affirmation, no wonder he loves his job so much!

I had my first day at the hospital and enjoyed it. I am doing small shifts to get some of my orientation training done and get used to it. After that I will have a regular on-call schedule. My class final is tomorrow which I am stressed about, but will be glad when it is over. Sometimes I ask myself "why do I choose to be so busy?" But everything I do is important to me and I enjoy them and my kids are still my first priority. We play outside everyday, even last week when it was snowing. They are so much fun.

Alexis is growing like crazy. She keeps having growing pains in her legs. It was warm today and she wore some shorts. I thought we had plenty of summer clothes for her, but I don't think most of the shorts will last more than a month or so. So I guess I get to take her shopping. She is very smart and says the funniest things. A couple weeks ago I was starting her bedtime story and she said, "I'm guilty." I asked her if she knew what guilty meant and when she said no, I told her that guilty means that you did something wrong and feel bad about it. She smiled and said, "Oh, I'm not guilty!" I never did find out what word she was looking for. Greg put her in the bath tonight and asked her if she want bubbles. She thought for a moment and then said, "Yeah, I guess that could work." Fun, fun.

Denali is our accident prone child. She is fearless and will climb on, step on or over anything and everything. On Friday she attempted to walk down the cement steps outside and her face met the pavement. Today she fell multiple times and I noticed she had a red mark on the other eye, so I decided to take a picture. It makes me laugh, because she seems to have been taken off guard by the flash. And her hair has finally just started to grow, but it is always sticking out in all directions. She also has a scratch on her tummy that happened sometime between me changing her diaper and getting her clean clothes. I am afraid of being turned in to social services or something. She also is so loving. She loves to give kisses and hugs and I love so much getting them.

Well, that is a long post for one week. But I haven't kept a journal in a long time, so I'm hoping for this to sort of be that. A place for me to write down my thoughts and memories and just to keep in touch.