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Random Blogging…

January 15, 2012 By Cindy 2 Comments

Well, blogging in 2012 is non-existant so far! And it’s already the 15th day in – yikes! My first few days of January have been filled with strep throat and trying to get back to work. I had been off for over a month, so getting back into the swing of things has been challenging to say the least! In order to get a blogpost up, I’m going for random. When am I not random? I’m not so sure, but here we go…

* I’m blogging from my ipad for the first time. We will see if I’m capable of such a thing!

* We started off our year with Daniel getting strep throat and then I was next in line. It’s the total pits and I wish adults could recover as fast a kids!

*Daniel earned his purple belt in karate in December. He’s super proud and really enjoying karate.

* I might should not own up to the fact that I’m a soap fan, but I am and I’m sad that One Life to Live had their last episode Friday! I’ve watched that show my entire life {ratting you out there too, Momma } and it’s been my one that I’ve DVR’d since Daniel was born. It’s always been my kid naptime show. No more…

* Daniel got a few gift cards for his birthday and Christmas and was dying to spend them after Christmas. He had $65 and managed to buy $100 worth of Legos and a new game for his DS. That’s my bargain shopper! He was so excited to get 2 huge Lego sets for half off.

*Luke was also excited to use his gift cards… for what else? Batman, of course. They now make Batman legos. After Christmas. Guess who wants them all?

* We went to Golden Corral last night {we haven’t been in ages} and they now have a chocolate fountain that my kiddos thought was the best thing ever. There was ridiculous amounts of chocolate on our children and their plates!
Chocolate covered strawberries for my strawberry lover

*I need a lot more practice on this ipad blogging thing. I’m too used to my computer.

* Have I mentioned my love of teacher blogs? Since I got my new job they are saving me with there awesome activities! That and teacherspayteachers.com.

* Luke is really into The Magic Treehouse books right now. I thought he might want to read a chapter book and I was right. He is loving them. I had book 1 at school, so he wrote me a note the other day to put with my school things, so that I would bring the book home for him.

*That’s all for now!

Filed Under: Daniel, Family, Luke, Randomness, School, The kiddos, This blogging thang, Updates

And the Worst Blogger award of 2011 goes to….

October 8, 2011 By Cindy 2 Comments

Me!

I’ve never let my blog sit so long without an update!

It has been so crazy~busy around here! I want to keep up my blog, because I love looking back and seeing what we were doing at certain points in our lives.

The major reason that I have not been around this {pretty, fall~ thanks to Dan} blog is that my hours at my new job were doubled! Awesome for me, but not the ole’ bloggy. I now have a full morning of reading groups and 3 afternoon math groups.

Daniel’s karate, Luke’s soccer, and my poor hubby’s ankle have also kept things busy around these parts.

I’m definitely having to adjust to this working mom thing. I’m not full-time, but pretty close and then there is so much planning, since this is my first year doing this!

My poor printer and google search bar are exhausted. And can I give another shout out to teacher blogs. Love you! They have been so helpful.

Number 9 AKA Luke is LOVING soccer. He can’t wait until his soccer games and plays really hard and cheers on his teammates when he is taking a break. He’s scored several goals including 2 for the other team Thursday. J How dare they switch which goal is ours with a bunch of 4 year olds!

Dan is hanging in there and still coaching on crutches.

You can see him in the background of the picture above.

He’s scheduled for another Dr. appointment Monday for his ankle. He’s made some progress, but not a lot. Still no weight on it yet and we’re almost at one month since he hurt it. Poor guy is SO tired of the crutches and being unable to walk on his foot.

Daniel had a program last week. It was called Educations Rocks and it was cute. He had a speaking part. The picture quality is awful, I just had my cell phone and was a mile away from him.

He also started riding the bus last week. He thinks it’s the greatest thing (thank goodness). I was having to do so much rushing around to get the kids after work, that this has worked out just great! They let him off right in front of the house, since we live on a busy road. We swore we would try not to do the bus with the kids, but this bus driver runs a tight ship, so I feel better about it! He has a couple of really good buddies on the bus, so that really helps.

I’m going to really try to blog just little bits through the week, that way it’s not such a daunting task! I want to be able to remember this crazy time in our lives. This time where Simply Cindy’s life is a little less simple!

Filed Under: Being a Mommy, Dan, Daniel, Fall, Family, Luke, School, soccer, The kiddos, This blogging thang, Updates

My Day: A Play by Play..

September 1, 2011 By Cindy Leave a Comment

I thought I would do a ‘Day in the Life Of’ today. I feel like I’m constantly in the car running up and down the road these days. Such is the life of a mother, I guess.

This is a riveting post, let me warn you. But I do enjoy looking back on the posts.

My day started with my 6:00 alarm clock and was followed by getting ready for the day~ shower, dressed, hair, makeup, Daniel up, breakfast, packing lunches, rushing Daniel out of the door, etc., etc.

I head into work around 8:00. My day was full of short vowels and listening to reading. J Over and over. I have to say I love it, though!!

I headed home for lunch and then over to the preschool to pick up Luke. We ran by the church to see Dan real quick and Dan gave Luke a balloon.

It became his toy of the day. He was into that balloon!

We chilled at the house for about 45 minutes before we got back in the car and went to pick up D3.

We came home for the kids to grab a quick snack and then headed to Sam’s for our monthly Sam’s run.

Grocery shopping with two kids is really just not tons of fun. Thank goodness for all the samples today, though! They took advantage of them.

We came home and I put up the food and Daniel got ready for Karate.

He’s doing great with Karate. He’s an orange belt {the only orange belt standing up in the picture} and he gets to do so much more, so he is really into it.

After Karate, we came home and D3 {&Luke} did homework while I cooked dinner.

I made a little drawer full of things that Luke could do during homework time. He’s done great sitting with Daniel every day and working on different things from his homework box.

Ignore the boxes in the background. My parents gave us some dishes and I’ve yet to unpack them all. <hangs head in shame.>

We ate dinner, the boys cleaned up toys, got clean, got in pajamas, brushed teeth, had story time and went to sleep!

I cleaned the kitchen and then watched Big Brother <hangs head in shame again. J>

I think I might watch another show with my hubby and then go to sleep!

Such is a day in my life…

Filed Under: Being a Mommy, Daniel, Luke, My Day: A Play by Play, Reading, School, The kiddos

My Newest Adventure…

August 29, 2011 By Cindy 2 Comments

I made the decision this past May that I wasn’t going to return to the preschool this fall. It was a hard call for me, because I LOVED the job so much. I have been searching for a full time teaching position for about a year and a half now and they are hard to come by! I decided to be a full time substitute teacher this school year.

Fortunately right at the beginning of the school year, I interviewed for a job as a Reading teacher and got the job! It is part time, but works out great with Luke’s preschool schedule and gets me on staff at a Primary School. I started last Monday and have thoroughly enjoyed my first week. It’s a fun challenge coming up with ways to help 2^nd graders learn to become better readers. It’s just a bit different than teaching preschoolers. J

I spent the week before I started collecting things for my new job and trying to set up my room. I have a small room with no windows. I was completely spoiled at the preschool with three huge windows, so my room is a bit dark.

I still think the room turned out pretty cute! Excuse my messy table.

My super sweet hubby brought me flowers on the first day with the kids. He wanted to get something really colorful, because my room was quite neutral before I got a hold of it. J

I’m really hoping to get on a better blogging schedule now. How many times have I said that recently? Hopefully this is it! My poor little bloggy still thinks it’s Spring! I’m waiting on Fall for a change though, because I am so over summer!!! No more 100 degree temps please. J

Filed Under: Reading, School