Stroke of Luck

Yesterday when I got the junk mail out of the mail box, I just set it down on top of the trash I was about to take out. I happen to glace at it, and saw an ad for Childcare. so I fished out the ad, and took the rest of the trash out. The ad said there is a new child care place opening really close to BART and they have extended hours, and only charge $8/hour. So I e-mailed them to make sure Westley would be a good fit, and if the hours that I'm going to work (It's looking like mondays mornings from 8-11 or so, wednesdays all day and Fridays all day) are ok with them. they are totally fine with it. And he doesn't have to be potty trained. they said they would help him, and urge him to go, but if he was still in diapers it's no problem.
Who knew that you could find important stuff in the junk mail. I guess I'll have to start looking through it more often.

and just because, here's some pictures of the kids.

Reaching out

I was just wondering what all my brothers and Sister-in-laws were up to, when I thought how bad it is that they never call. Of course I never call either, so I guess I'm part of the problem. So I settle for reading my family's blogs and getting all my news from Mom (Who I'm not ashamed to say I still call quite often). She gives me the report of everyone whos called her, so that's good enough for me. But then I thought, If my brothers and sister-in-laws are trying to read my blog to see whats up, they be pretty disappointed, because I hardly ever post. So I am going to do my best to Start posting every week, so that my family can know what's up with me. I still recommend calling Mom every week tho.
Anyways, right now we are in the lull of summer. Lindsey and Westley both finished there swimming classes (Lindsey moved up a level and isn't afraid of the low dive anymore. I'm so proud of her.) This weekend Lindsey is going camping with the girlscouts, on her first overnight. She is really excited. Westley thinks he is ready for a bike. Everytime we go outside, he trys crawling up on Lindsey's bike. I would show you pictures of this stuff, but I left my camera at mom and dad's when we were up for the forth of july. So right now, we don't have much going on. I'm trying to prepare my lessons for Nest year.
At this moment unless the superintendent decides he doesn't like me, I will be teaching K-2 grade music at Buena Vista Elementry. I'm very excited. I have a lot of ideas, and I'm working hard on trying to make most of them work. I'm really nervous, but I have a lot of support and I think it will all work out.
so that's the news as of right now. I gotta go and try to get my kids to bed.

Tomorrow is the last day of school. WOO HOO! Lindsey will officailly become a third grader at 11:31am tomorrow morning. I even told her we'd go out to lunch to celebrate.

It's so hot here. I hope the rest of you all are doing ok.

The County Fair

We went to the county fair. Other then spending money, and some good ol' fried food, it wasn't much. The kids did go on a few rides tho, and we got to see the Bears. I didn't knoiw bears liked country music, but apparently these bears did. here are the pictures. I'll post later with other updates.

Long Time No Post

Well, I've been so busy. What with Westley growing up so fast, and Helping out with Lindsey's Drama class at school (I made costumes [yeah mom I finally opened and used the sewing machine] and I'm plsying piano for most of the songs. (There are a few that the director really wanted to use the CD music). Weekends have been full of Lindsey and me riding Bart to her Acting classes. She is doing well tho, so it's coming along. I got a new cellphone and had to figure out how to work it, and now I've gotta come up with some cool ringtones for everyone. I was really sick for a while, because I had a bad reaction to some medication that made it hard for me to breathe. I didn't do anything about it the first day, but the second day it was really bad, so I went to the doctor, and she sent me to the emergency room. After two breathing treatments I felt a lot better, and could say full sentences without gasping for breath. I went home, and when I saw my Regular Doctor next, he put me on steroids for a week. After the first couple days of steroids I felt much better, only now my dreams of being an olympic gymnist in the upcoming games have been dashed ;-) Now I am back to normal, or as close as I can get, and have been trying to find time to do everything. We are getting two new couches so I've been working hard on making room in the house for them. If everything works out, we might have them by this weekend, so when Mom and Dad visit thay can sit somewhere. Still working on the bathroom tho, so they won't place a place to go pee. One step at a time. well, that's about it. OH yeah, here are some of the videos I promised to post. sorry it took so long. Love you all