Wow! Already a month!

It is amazing how quickly time goes by! My Little Angel is in the big 3rd grade and we finally finished the summer reading project :) My husband has been working at his new job for a month and already had two consecutive days off (I have not had two days in a row since I met him...well atleast not that i recall.lol) Charlie has a playmate now that my sis is in town. My mom jokingly asked which one I wanted to take and I said Maggie without a moment of hesistation. She and Charlie love to play, she can sleep with Little Angel, and she is a sweet dog. We tried one of my mother's other dogs and it just did not work-she woke up too early and did not get along with Charlie. Little Angel has been begging for someone or something to sleep with her so I found a temporary solution :)

I am now working full time as a teacher and absolutely loving it! It probably helps that I just had a five day weekend. Everyone is giving me a hard time about all my time off but to my credit we do not have another long break until Thanksgiving. The teacher I am working with is only a year older than me and we just mesh. We have the youngest tikes from barely over a year to 3 1/2. They are all adorable and sweet, sweet. Three of them take two naps a day, and three take one nap. This may sound like Heaven-well it is-but it is also hard to stay on a snack, diaper, learning time, and activity time schedule when they are constantly falling asleep at different times! They are a very cuddly class which I LOVE :)

I have also started my Masters in Early Intervention. Once a week I will drive 2 hours to class and the other one is online work. I am such a nerd. I was SO excited to get my textbooks and dive in! One class is about play based assessments used to diagnose children's level and the other is parenting approach to development. I am really excited about getting a degree to read books I wanted to read anyway to understand my classroom children better.

Little Angel and I were practicing braiding while I was reading my "Parenting from the Inside Out" She asked me, "Momma are you reading that to know how to take care of me? Because you don't need that." I am glad to know that she thinks I do an ok job because sometimes I am at a loss. Earlier in this court process me and my husband took a parenting class to help with the custody process. Little Angel found the brochure and proceeded to tell me that I knew a whole lot more than most of the Mommas she knew! Talk about sweet girl. I mean those are THE moments.

Well I better get on my reading while I have peace and quiet :)