This isn't the one I was talking about...

Ok, I now on my last post I'd said I'd include pictures, but here's the deal...my weekend is very very quickly slipping away. I have at least 4 loads of laundry that have to be done tonight...That puts me at least at midnight...so I must be quick here.

I just wanted all you readers, friends, (readers are friends too, just not face to face friends) and family afar that I GOT THE JOB!!!! After 8 weeks, 4 interviews and two observations later I finally finally finally have been hired. Whew! My kids seem to be adjusting with trepidation to the change. Although it will be SO SO SO good for my family, it will be SO SO SO hard for them. You see, they have gone to work with me all summer long and on no school days for the past 8 years. So...it will be an adjustment. The big difference is that now...on most of their no school days I'll be home with them. Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus! Merry Christmas to me. I also have 4 weeks off in the summer. That thought alone almost brings tears to my eyes. I have worked so hard for so long in my life that the thought of working less and making more money seems actually beyond my comprehension. I guess I thought all through grad school, that gee I hope I really do make more and work less, but what if that doesn't really happen? Well, I'm breathing a sigh of relief. I'll work 6.5 hours instead of 9, have double the sick time, double the personal time, and double the vacation time. It's a dream come true...AND I'll be working with some really challenging children, so there will be a lot to learn. I don't have my start date yet, but I'm looking at the end of Jan. Keep a good thought for me on my new journey. I couldn't be more thrilled.

The twilight zone...

Yesterday was a day from the twilight zone. I woke up this morning and thought...was that real? Is Poppy really in Heaven? Was I dreaming all that? Nope...still here...still real. Yesterday was odd...I left work and suddenly felt wiped out. I went home, dropped the kids at the pool, and took a long nap...woke up...made some calls, still haven't reached all the family members...fought some bureaucracy...and headed to tennis with Brennan and Nina...Love this one of my boy...really could he be any more handsome? I know, I'm just a bit biased...but still...And then this girl...how I love her sun bleached hair...the same hair she is constantly wanting to dye dark brown. She has always been my nature girl...the girl with the natural beauty...The sun bleached hair, the pretty green eyes, the peaches and cream skin...love her...