Miss Jor

Little Miss Jor was being so cute the other day that I had to take her picture. Unfortunately, this girl is camera shy so she never looked at me but they are still adorable!! I just love those beautiful curls on this beautiful girl!!!

She has been learning so much. I've been printing out letter sheets for her to practice with and she loves it. She calls it her homework and likes to do them while Kenna does her homework. She does really well in our little preschool thing we do except when it's my turn. Then she won't stay sitting on her name on the carpet....little stinker. I have also just been dropping Kenna off for school in the morning and staying out by the car until she goes in instead of going in with her. It's a lot easier to not haul the two younger kids in there. Well, Jordyn wanted to go play one time so I let her run in with Kenna and told her she had to come right back once the bell rang. I totally thought I was going to have to go in after her but as soon as the bell rang, she started running back to me and jumped right into the van. She has done this everytime she goes out to play and I'm so proud of her!! At the beginning of the year, she never would have done that!! She also plays very well by herself. She has her little toys go up and down stairs or in and out of cars and she can't leave until they get to where they are supposed to go. I tell her to get into the van because we have to go get Ken and she has to walk them all which can sometimes take forever depending on how many toys she has!! I guess I better give her some more warning!! I love this girl!!!

Preschool Christmas party

I hosted our preschool Christmas party today! I worked really hard on getting it all ready and really wished that it went better. I think the kids had a good time though. I guess it was mainly just me that was all crazy! :)

I found some cute crafts for us to do. These Rudolph hats and cute Christmas trees!! The antlers are their hands!

We also did a fun game of decorating your sibling like a Christmas tree:)

Here they are coloring their trees!! Then we decorated some cookies for their dessert and had lunch! I hope they all had a good time!

Some random thoughts

I haven't been too worried about the swine flu. I haven't kept my kids from doing stuff (we still go to the park and story time and nursery) or stopped doing what I normally do. Especially since it hasn't hit too close to home. But yesterday there was a case in our school district in a school that isn't too far from us. I'm still not worried about it. It is the flu and like my friend Sarah said before, more people die from the regular flu every year. So not panicking here. Well, at least not yet;)

I've been thinking about doing something different for a job lately. Not seriously thinking but every now and then, I get tired of massaging and my mind wanders while doing so. I have been doing it for ten years and I think I just want a change but I would have no idea what else to do. Nothing else sounds great and there really isn't anything else that I can do for a couple of days a week and make the same money that I do. And since the goal is to be home with my girlies as much as possible, it doesn't seem feasible right now. Maybe I will revisit this when my kids are all in school.

I would love to put Makenna in a preschool but even the rec center is pretty expensive. Is it bad if she doesn't go to preschool? I'm not worried that she will be behind. She's smart as a whip but I just want her to get used to sitting quietly and following directions before she hits kindergarten. I think it would be good for social interaction. Maybe her Sunbeam class will help her prepare and playdates for the social???

I really want to punch our governor. It's like he's using our teachers to make up for everything. He said we lived large for a couple of years and now we have to tighten our belts and take pay cuts. Ummm....teachers never lived large when the economy was going great! They wouldn't even give them raises and the cost of living was ridiculous when times were good but he expects the teachers to take a pay cut and pay for the whole state's debt. He doesn't want to raise taxes because he doesn't want to take even more money out of people's pockets (his words) but that is exactly what he will do to a certain section of people. That makes a lot of sense to cut pay for teachers when a first year teacher can already qualify for food stamps. Niiiiiice!! I'm so glad politicians tell the truth when they are campaigning. He said 'education first' and he would fight to raise teachers pay. What a joke!!

I'm just wondering who's great idea it was to do construction on all roads going North/South??? Well, at least every road that I go on to get to work. It's quite idiotic.

Why does it always get so hot so early!! We are ten degrees higher than normal. It always happens. That's why I don't like spring. We jump up higher than we are supposed to and then never go back down and go right into summer. My girls love to be outside and it's just not pleasant when we are almost a 100 degrees.

I'm over Target. (sorry Jen;) I don't know how it happened. It just did. It just doesn't do it for me anymore and I've moved on;-} LOL! Seriously, I don't go to Target very often anymore. I think it started when I wasn't working much over the winter. I used to use my tip money to buy stuff and since I didn't have any, I didn't go. I don't miss it either. I do my weekly grocery shopping at Walmart and I can get everything I want there! I don't need Target anymore. I will still go there for certain things so I'm not totally nixing it out of my life;)

I'm super excited that all the major holidays this year land on the days that I don't work on. Well, except Thanksgiving. But that will always be on the same day so that doesn't count but it sucks that my manager that would give workers with kids those days off automatically was laid off six months ago. So, I'm not sure what to expect this year. I guess we shall see.

That's all for now. It's time to take the girls to the park (before it gets to almost 100 degrees) and to story time at the library;)