An Update.

First of all, my dryer died at the beginning of last week. I was so sad! It was a hand-me-down from Grandpa Baird (my mom's dad) when he moved out of his house and has served us well for the past five years. I will miss it. The good thing is that I did get a new dryer out of it. I must say I am amazed at how much lower to the ground the drum is for only being a little bit bigger capacity. It is something that I will have to get use to. Now if I could only get the washer to die. No, not really! I need my washer! It was quite interesting to get reacquainted with the laundromat though. I was surprised at how much it cost me to do one week's worth of laundry. I had about $21 and still didn't have enough to get my clothes all of the way dry. If I would have thought a bit more about it, I would have washed my clothes at home and only took them there to dry. Then I wouldn't have spent as much money. I think I just wanted to get it all done in the hour. That is the best part about a laundromat!

I have my first test of the semester coming up on Wednesday, so yes, I really should be working on getting ready for that instead of posting, but I thought everyone deserved to hear all about my life instead! Aren't you all so lucky! The test is in my soils class and is open note. It is really just a bunch of math. It has irrigation planning and soil moisture content and all of that fun stuff. Did you get all of that?

In all of my efforts at finding an internship (which there wasn't any), I did not have any luck. Then today during my luch break a get a phone call from Rudy's Greenhouse. I did some seasonal work for them last year. They were offering me a job for this season starting tomorrow! It really is the perfect job for me. The work is pretty laid back up until May for Mother's Day. I will be getting flats ready to sell in the spring. Come May, I will be helping pull those flat out for wholesale orders. The owners are really great, so if anyone wants to come and see me while I am working then feel free! This first part will be mostly sitting down kind of work, so I could use the people to chat with! Can you tell I am really excited? This is about the time of year I get pretty antsy to get planting, and now I get to without the imminent death of the flowers. Hurray for me!!!! I will have to take some pictures of all of the flowers when they are in bloom about April. It is quite the sight to see.

Anyway, that is me for another week. Enjoy yourselves and don't work too hard.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

We had a lot of fun celebrating my mom's birthday. When the kids and I went to get the stuff for the cake, they both wanted so much on it we would have to have a cookie sheet size cake! But they each got to pick one thing to put on it to make it more personal. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my other round cake pan, so Mom got a heart-shaped cake. It still tasted great!

I am not knee deep in my semester with one more drawing class, a irrigated soils class (irrigation scheduling: translation, a lot of math!!!), and a yoga class that is just for fun! I didn't realize how hard yoga really is! Of course that could be just for me being in the great shape that I am. Clint is still working at ATK, Shay is getting sick again (why her so much more than Haden?), and Haden is loving his new preschool class! Which is really great! We had a bit of trouble with his teacher last semester. But they moved him into the pre-k class, and he loves it! I can just picture him in Miss Amy's class :)

I hope everyone is having a great winter, and may the moisture be plentiful!

School? What School?

I must say, when my mom called and asked if I was ready for school about the Wednesday before, I was in shock that school started so soon! I guess I have been waiting for my last semester for so long that I didn't think it would ever come. Needless to say, I wasn't ready. But now, a week into classes, I might finally be ready! Yes, it did take that long. It isn't that I don't like taking classes and all of that, it's just that I don't enjoy waking up my children at six in the morning in order to get to a 7:30 lecture. At the first of the semester they actually like it a bit, but that doesn't even last until mid-terms! Who can blame them really?

Haden loves going to school! He especially likes his new class. He has been moved up to the fives classroom, and they seem to understand his energy quite a bit more. That is really helpful! Shay likes school, but she didn't start asking to go back two weeks prior like Haden did. I am really happy that he loves it so much. It makes my job so much easier. It will also make is easier for when he goes to kindergarten next year. Are my kids really that old!?! It doesn't seem possible.

Anyway, I hope all of those who are attending another semester get through everything just fine. Good luck to you all! At least I get to graduate this May!!!!!

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve was not too eventful. Clint had to work, so I went to my parent's house for the night. We let the kids stay up as late as they wanted (with the expectation that they would be ornery the next day), and Haden asked if he could go to bed at about ten. I was impressed that he was willing to ask for that. I half expected him to just fall asleep. After the kids were in bed, Mom and I watched a movie while Dad sat in the Lazy boy fighting to stay awake. He has never been one to stay awake later than 10:30, and that time gets bumped up now that he isn't thirty anymore. He was a very good sport about it. At ten we got a "Happy New Year" phone call from my brother. No, his clock wasn't set wrong or anything. He and his family are in Boston going to school. He was quite witty when he commented he felt like we were living in a different year. Hahaha.

When midnight hit Mom, Dad and I watched the neighbors shoot off illegal fireworks. It is something they do every year, and it is fun to watch them open the new year that way. We didn't stay up very long after that. Does anyone remember when we could stay up until four without any problem? I can't believe I could ever do that! Then again, I guess that is what kids do to you. But they are worth it! Have a great new year, everyone!