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After leaving, my parents got sick, the same stomach bug that my nephews had early in the week last week from the sound of it, and somehow none of us caught it.
My sister had to go back to the ER this week with some awful fatigue symptoms and trouble with her diabetes. She is alright, but I am sure that they are sick of being sick in her house. It'd be nice if everybody would send good vibes and thoughts her way while my brother-in-law is in Afghanistan and my sister is alone with two little ones. At least they will be here all next month so that we can help out some.
quote:Originally posted by theinfamousLG: Hope your sissy starts feeling better Shelby! When does her husband return?
He isn't slotted to get back until November. It is his first deployment. He was a General's Aide for a year, so it's certainly delayed his first deployment, which has been fine with us. He graduated from West Point like 5 years ago. He has wanted to go (something about being looked down upon in the Army for not having your combat patch). That is certainly a culture I don't understand, but I love my brother-in-law very much.
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Ah, the army...I don't know why they feel the need to deploy people for soooo long. My cousin's husband was deployed a few days after they got back from their honeymoon...he was told a few days before their wedding he was being deployed. Was gone for 15 months. Sucks. Not bad that it's his first deployment with 5 years in.
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Hey, Clara! We seem to have had a lot of people pop their heads in lately.
Anyhow, my sister ended up at the doctor office again last week. Her CT scan showed mucous still sitting in the root canal cavity. They put her back on antibiotics, but that only seems to be temporary. She just knew she couldn't do it any more with her kids, so she flew my mom up Saturday morning and they drove down here yesterday. She will be here for a while now. Probably until the end of May. It will be good to have my sister and nephews around, but I know it's not the way she wanted it to happen. She has to go to an endodontist to get her issue fixed. At least now she has more support here.
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He Clara! And Shelby....hope your sister gets well fast! And yea for having her around. AND I think Ira and I need to road trip up soon. It's been over a month, and I know Carter is getting too big too fast!
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I know, I was just looking at pictures of him yesterday. He has some hair there. Also, does he always looks so surprised? He seems to look surprised in a lot of the pictures. heh. It's cute. Glad your sister will be around to have family around to support her!
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He actually smiles quite a bit, but the camera comes out and it's time for a deer in the headlights. At least he is looking into camera. People kept on telling us that his hair would fall out, but we knew better. Liz and her sister both came out with full heads of hair and never lost it. He looked so much like Liz at birth that we knew he would keep the hair. He does look a lot more like me than he did though.
And Kim, you guys are always welcome. Let us know though. We have a few full weekends coming up in the next month and a half or so. We have plans this weekend and my brother will be graduating at the end of May (or beginning of June, not sure), so we will have family in town and whatnot for that. But otherwise, I don't think we have anything.
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Looks like FuR needs a massage therapist at work! Don't we all wish we had one of those? 3 weeks of kids at work and counting! I do have more sick/emergency time off I could use...hmmm..
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Interviewed with Amarillo School District today. Interview went really well. This is my third time to go in and see them. They remember me from year to year. My high school principal is over all of personnel and I even got to see him today. Evidently, he asks the secondary personnel director about me from time to time. He remembers me in a very positive light. This is the year. I can feel it. Keep your fingers crossed, everyone.
Not sure what's going to happen with my job situation because the public school district is taking over the grant for my head start program. I'm not too worried though considering my education and experience. I just hope they pay the same/more than I make now.
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Trip to Ga and SC was a good one, but next time I will go back with people who don't drive me crazy. But overall I had fun cause I found my fun when and where I could. And on another note............JASON IS NOW OFFICIALLY ALL GRADUATED!!!! And I am soooooooo tired. And next weekend is Austin and rooting him on as he does his first triathlon. And sometime in June I plan on getting back up to Amarillo. Carter is already getting HUGE!
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Babies grow fast. My friend Tiffany's baby shower was yesterday. I have fun making baby things. Still going. Two more showers to go. My friends Jen and Katie are due a day apart in August. The school board is screwing over most of my co-workers by raising their degree/certification requirements for jobs for Head Start. I don't know what some of them will do. I'm trying not to worry that they won't hire me or that they'll be too much competition for the jobs. bah. Now we have to pack up our entire classrooms after the kids leave. I've been collecting boxes since apparently those won't be provided.
Congrats to Jason! PA school is rough I'm sure he's glad it's over. Last week of the kids here. Don't know if I"ll see any of them next year. We'll see.
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we are starting training on a brand new approach to working with kids with autism. it's a bit intimidating, as all i've (we've, my co-workers and all) known is ABA (applied behavior analysis) techniques and strategies. now we're doing what's called the competent learner model (CLM) and it's going to take some getting used to. it's a whole different philosophy on how to work with students with autism. i'm excited about it and definitely interested in it if it will help us grow and serve our kids better, but the unknown is always scary. it's definitely going to be a bit weird, as we used to be strictly one-on-one with our kids, and with CLM, it's going to be like, 3 teachers on 6 kids or something crazy like that. so no more one-on-one, and with kids who really NEED that hands-on, one-on-one support it's going to be really difficult doubling, even tripling, them up with other kids. we've already started practicing it, and it's super stressful. super duper.
i'm still doing grad school online. it's going well, slowly but surely, and i'm making all A's since i started in january 2010. i'm only 9th course, human sexuality (fun fun), but it's still going to be about 2015 until i graduate, since i'm only taking on one course per quarter (i feel i can't do more than that with working full-time, but i probably could if i just sucked it up and bit the bullet and tried, you know, HARDER and wasn't so freaking lazy all the time...but i know i'd get super overwhelmed and stressful. my current work/school load is doable right now. i don't want to change it. but yeah. 2015 is a long way away. the goal seems so far...and i want to be a counselor NOW! i'm so antsy to start!
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Hope the new approach works well with the kids. I've heard of ABA but never CLM. Hang in there with school Steph! 2 more days..just have to survive 2 more days. Finally the school board gave us info about a meeting about employment they're having next week. About time! I feel bad for a lot of my co-workers though because they want all their teachers to have bachelor's degrees and all assistants to have basically an associate's degree. A lot of them don't or aren't there yet.
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