Mom Stuff

Alrighty, so it's not quite the new year, and the apocalypse didn't happen but I have decided that I am going to challenge myself to blog at least once a week about what is happening in our lives. Let's see where to start:

Scott - he is done with school!  Santa dropped off his paper diploma on Christmas Eve.  Very, very exciting!  He starts teaching his first college class on the 14th of January.  Go baby go!


Josie - she is just a 3 year old spitfire!  Her birthday was awesome and so was our trip to Disneyland.  She loved it.  We flew in an airplane, you guys.  With 2 small children and most of the shit they require to travel and to be content.  They both rocked it and I think they did better than Scott and I did.  I was a wreck trying to make sure all of us and our crap made it through security and to the terminals in time.  Somehow it worked.

Damn she is pretty.

Reese - our little munchkin 2.0 is growing like a weed!  A very beautiful weed. She is so smiley and cuddly.  I just love her to bits.  Josie has been a big help with her and takes to it very naturally.  She is a pretty great sleeper, which is awesome because Josie was and still is a terrible sleeper.  Reese is just content as can be.  Until Josie pinches her or decides to talk to her nose to nose.

I think this sums up their relationship right now.

Me - I start school again on the 7th.  I will be in full English BA mode trying to get teaching licensure so that I can teach middle schoolers/high schoolers writing.  It will end with an M.Ed. with any luck and then I will top it all off with teaching some film classes, hopefully.  I am a little nervous because I know how much homework this is going to entail and I hope that my home life doesn't suffer because of it.  This is that ugly place where you have to make sacrifices to get you to a better place.  If I can do this, I will have a great work schedule and Scott and I will have a more free schedule to enjoy our family which is our ultimate end goal.

I will try to blog about Disneyland in more depth when I can get the pics off of Scott's phone.

For now, all is well and we are happy.  Christmas was fun but I am glad it's over.  It's really hard to buy gifts for everyone when you had to miss a month of work.  Hopefully next Christmas will be less stressful.  And hopefully my little monkeys will really get into it. There are so many things I wanted to do that we weren't able to because of time or money.  I wanted to get a key for Santa so he could deliver his gifts, I wanted to leave out reindeer food in the front yard, I wanted to leave out cookies and milk for Santa. But alas, time is not my friend right now.  It is allusive and I have to spend it where it is needed most.

My New Year resolutions are:
1) to be present more. I think I tinker online too much and I don't spend enough of my attention on what is happening right in front of me.  I want to be in the moment with my kids.  They are only so small once.
2) I also want to be more active.  We took Josie swimming at the rec center yesterday and she absolutely loved it.  It has been snowing for the last 2 days and we were having fun in the water.  We need more days like that.
3) To send off my screenplay. YIKES!!! I had a great writing day today and finally a breakthrough with my completed script.  Now I just need to put it into motion.  Some rewrites later and I will be ready to send it off.  That is a scary thing for me.  It is my baby and I hope I can let it go.

Well, that about covers it.