With any luck I will be hearing that from now on. My FAFSA application processed today and I am waiting to see if Everett Community College will give me grants to go back to school. I went to school breifly back in 2004 but got sick my first quarter and had to drop all of my classes. That was very discouraging so I ended not going back. I have come to the conclusion that, as much as I LOOOOVE teaching, the field isn't built for me. Today's society has placed too much importance on education instead of ability. And, unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the will to get a 4 or 6 year degree so that I can make more than $15 an hour in my lifetime. Not to mention the unpaid classroom work that comes a long with that. I have 3 children to take care of and need to have at least a part time job. I would sacrifice something much more important than the extra income I would make with that 4-6 year degree: my childrens' childhood. So I am going to get my certificate and possibly my AB for Legal Office Administration. I have no intrest in becoming a lawyer, but I love office work and the IDEA of being a lawyer. I love typing, paperwork, filing, etc. Things that drive other people crazy. I love it! So my plan is to go to Everett Community College and earn my certification there. Now for the tuition! Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated as I take on this new endeavour in my life. I am praying for th best :-)
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Madison is doing great, as well. She is getting help in school for Reading, Math, and Writing and is doing online tutoring with Kaplan. We go to the library after school every day so that she can do her homework without distraction. Emilee is doing good, as w
ell. Not struggling in school or anything.
I, at the moment, am looking at going back to work part time
. Full time, if the job is right. I am not going back to teaching quite yet, however. Jobs in that field are hard as heck to come by at the moment and the competition is steep. I am going to jobs I am
more/over qualified for because they are attainable, haha. I applied at the casino for HR Rep and Exec Assistant and I also applied at a salon for Studio Coordinator. Hopefully I get calls back but I am not a person who gets my hopes up easily.
Anyway, I have to do laundry. Here are some pictures!
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So this year Madison is going to be a bumble bee, Camila will be a flower (get it?), and Emilee will be Spider Witch, lol.
Alysa will join us for tick-or-treating this year and she is going to be a pink batgirl. We are going to be trick-or-treating in Mukilteo. I give the kids 23 minutes before they get too cold and want to go home...
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Camila reached her first big milestone last night at about 7pm. I was changing her diaper in her crib and she was considerably unhappy about the situation. I bent down to grab a clean diaper and came back up and said "Clean diaper to the rescue!" and she stopped crying and then started smiling at me. Jesse was standing next to me and I tapped him on the shoulder and told him that Camila was smiling. Then she started laughing! It was pretty great. And apparently she has a cheesy sense of humor because my antics weren't that awesome.
I have also been in touch with a woman who has pictures of my Italian side of my family. I noticed in a picture that she sent me that this "all girls" dilemma we have is probably my gene's fault:+is+to+the+far+left.+The+little+girl+standing+would.jpg)
I also found out that my great-great grandfather had a sweet 'stache in his time:
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Sometimes I look at my parenting tactics and values i try to instill on my children and I wonder... am I a weirdo?
This occurred to me when I suggested that Madison start writing letters to family members she
has never met. Ones she has heard of, of course, and has talked to on the phone. Why? No one
ever writes letters anymore, that's why!
I requested that she write them in cursive, in pen, and sign them properly with "Sincerely". I told her I wanted her to write about one a week and we would address the envelopes and send them via the obsolete SNAIL MAIL.
Then I thought about it. Does she really need to know how to do this? Probably not. Maybe. Who knows! But I don't want to surrender the little things in life like getting a hand written letter from a relative to electronic communication.
P.S. I also made her her own snazzy stationary! If you want to get a letter email me your mailing address at prettyinpretend@aol.com
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Yesterday I was at Target and I was looking at t-shirts for Madison. I debated on getting a shirt that says "Paris" on it and "Je Taime" because she is going to be taking French classes this year and she is really excited about it. Then I debated over a halloween t-shirt but the only remotely nice one said "I love vampires" and Madison has made is very apparent that she likes werewolves, lol. So I finally decided to get her two basic long sleeved shirts, one black and one white. While I was there I saw a t-shirt that says "Proud to be a NERD". My first thought was "Madison would be appaled if I got her that shirt" then I thought about it some more. 9 year olds are just coming into that age where they are ultra self conscious. I can not imagine many 9 year olds that would willingly wear a t-shirt that labels them a un-cool (even though being a nerd is awesome in my opinion).
Anyway, fast forward to me picking Madison up from school. We were leaving the parking lot and I told her "I got you a couple of shirts from Target today. They're long sleeved so you can wear them under your short sleeved shirts." She said "Okay." Then I thought about that NERD shirt and wanted to confirm that Madison indeed would not consider wearing a shirt like that. I did not take into consideration the context this was going to appear in, which warranted a very dramatic response from Madison (dramatic, yet hilarious!).
This is how the conversation went for Madison
Me: "I got you a couple of shirts from Target today. They're long sleeved so you can wear them under your short sleeved shirts"
Madison: "Okay."
Me: "Would you wear a shirt that says 'Proud to be a nerd?"
Madison: [insert horrified expression] "Nooo!!!"
To clarify, she thought I had bought her a t-shirt that said "Proud to be a nerd." It was pretty hilarious.
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