Today's Plan:

I am hoping to accomplish a few things today, so here is my list. We had a few changes over the weekend on a few things, so the phone calls for that are in here.

1. Do school
2. Call the dentist for Anna. At her last appointment, I was told that she wouldn't get her big teeth in until she was at least 7. Guess what?! They were wrong. She has one on the bottom already, but it came in behind her other teeth. We need the baby teeth removed now.
3. Call the name of the good attorney that was given to me to help my mom fight her disability stuff. she can't handle the head stress it is causing her and she finally said we can call, so I am doing that today.
4. Get all laundry done. (I hope to accomplish this, as my husband needs his uniforms for work. They have new ones and he has to turn in the old ones tomorrow. It could be a long night after work.)
5. Take Anna to gymnastics.
6. Work. Oh yeah, that will take about 4-5 hours out of the day.

That is all the stuff that HAS to be done today. I really hope to get it all done. Like I said with the laundry...it could be a long night. I also can't wait to hear what the dentist has to say. I want to get Anna a new dentist, but the old one needs to see that he was WRONG first. Anyhow, I better go. Take care all.

Edited 11/1/07:

Got most of it finished, if I can just get the attorney to call me back, we will be in good shape.

Thank you!

I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who made my birthday special. Just so you all know, my husband was off for the day and he surprised me with a special lunch and cake. He actually had pretended he was not off and left for work at normal time, but he showed up around 10:00am to cook me a nice lunch and wish me a Happy Birthday. It was a nice surpirse. My mom joined us as did a lot of his family. Thank you everyone for coming and for my birthday gifts. I really appreciate it all and you made my day very special. It was all very nice.

Good Morning?!?

Here is what I woke up to this morning on both bathroom mirrors:

I also woke up to the following mesage in my email, followed by a sound file of my dear husband singing Happy Birthday to me.

"Gm!!!!! What a wonderful day!!

Why? Because you were born!! Making the
world a wonderful place!!!"

Wasn't that sweet? I thought so. I wasn't planning on doing anything for my birthday as we have school and I work tonight, as well as the fact that I have worked or will work every day around my birthday, including my birthday.

Anyhow, I just wanted to say thank-you honey for the nice little mesaages. I really appreciate it. Anna loved the singing too. :-)

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Now, since when have you known me to be wordless!! LOL!!

Can you tell what we did today?!?

Smiling Pretty:

Sitting like a Ballerina:

Ready to Go Home(Love the pants under the tutu!)

Like I said ALMOST Wordless Wednesday!

Book Review, Daily Life, School

Book Review:

Alright, I know you want to hear about another great book from me, but I can't help it. we have checked out some really good books from the library lately that are great for any collection. Today's great book is Dancing with Katya by Dori Chaconas. This book shows the importance for getting your children their immunizations by showing the effects of Polio on a little girl who only had dreams to dance. The polio made her legs crippled and she had to wear braces, causing her to not be able to dance. It makes her sad, but her sister comes to the rescue and to find out how, you will need to read the book. It was so good. Anna really enjoyed it last night and truly understands the reason for the immunizations. They are to keep her from getting VERY sick and ending up in the hospital or losing her life. That is all she really needs to know at her age.

Daily Life:

I have another sinus infection or ear infection, or whatever. I had some medicine to take to clear it up, but it made me feel worse. It made me completely and utterly nauseous. I felt almost fluish. All I have wanted to do for the last two days is lay in bed. I determined it was the medicine last night and so I will head out and get something else that won't make me feel that way and hopefully will let me breathe.
The job situation is also okay, it is not what I want, but who says we always get what we want. God had been telling me those words for a reason and I need to live with it.
My birthday is coming up, but we might as well just skip it. I work every day around it, including my birthday. We might do something next Sunday, but i don't count on it, because the following Sunday, the 4th is when we are celebrating Anna's. It is a few days before her actual birthday, but that is her party. Hers is more important at this point anyhow.
Christmas Tree! Yes, we are already wanting to set up the Christmas Tree and get in the Christmas spirit. This will be our smallest Christmas ever, but one we will be most thankful for. We are on our own and will have a Christmas with just our family before we head out and see all the grandparents and such. It will be the first time ever that we have had just us.

School:

School is going good. Anna IS learning how to read, but she doesn't like to show it off. She has read several paragraphs already in her Language Arts book and she can sight read lots of cards (we made them together). I put them into a sentence order at least four times a day and she can read that too.
She is picking up math and counting better. We were really struggling with that for a while and I think she will be ready to move on in the book finally. We stopped doing her math text book this week, just to concentrate on the counting to ten, because her book is moving on to counting to 20 already and she didn't have to 10 down. I will determine that at the end of this week.
Anna is going to be in a State History Fair. We are working on her display board and learning a ton of facts that she can recite for the fair. What state? What state? Arizona!! She is doing Arizona. I probably should have had her do Texas, but I figured that a bunch of the other littles would be doing Texas, so we picked Arizona. Actually I limited her to California or Arizona and she picked it. It is going well and I will pick up her display board today so we can get that started.

Ooops. This wasn't supposed to be such a long post, but it is. Hope you all have a good week and check in later as I get to take pictures at this weeks ballet and gymnastics classes. Thanks all for reading and God Bless.

Answer Found?

Alright, I think I answered my own question in yesterdays post. As much as I don't like where I am at, God has been telling me that he gave me this job and I need to serve to the best of my ability, soooooo, I am trying my best. This was not a move I have planned, nor was it a move that I like, but I had my answer even before I posted here. In any case, it still was not professional the way I was moved, and it still should have been done different, but it wasn't and thats that. So, I am sure my found answer is what God has been telling me all along, "I gave you that job and you need to serve to the best of your ability." I am sure someone else is hearing that besides me, but that is my message for the day. Thanks for all the prayers. Love and God bless.

Confused

Alright, now I am confused. I showed up at work all prepared to place my order yesterday and was told that my book was done and to go to another section of the store that was where I was being moved?!?!?! What in the world are they trying to do to me? I am about two handshakes away from walking out the door and quitting. This is completely insane. I was put where I was due to my education background and the ideas I have for teachers and all of a sudden, with no warning, I am not there. I am devastated. I don't even know where to begin. I liked being able to help teachers and homeschool parents the best that I could. I had no idea this move was coming. It would have been nice to at least have the common courtesy to say "we need to move you over to here due to_____." (Fill in the blank for yourself.) But to just show up to work and not even a manager told me I was moved, someone else told me. I am so heart broken and so upset. I thought it was clear to me a few days ago that God gave me this job and I am to serve to the best of my ability (That is what he has told me several times over the last week and a half), but this is not professional. I do not understand. Usually when they start moving people its because they are trying to get rid of them. Jeremy says to keep working and be happy about it and not give them the satisfaction that they want, and part of me wants to do that, but the other part of me wants out of this crazy harried job. I need a stable environment or at least somewhat stable. I was heading out today to pick up applications, but I just don't know where to go or what to do. Anyhow, if you stayed with me through all this, then thank-you. I need everyone who reads my blog to pray that the right decision will come about and I will do what is right for our family and for God. Thanks so much.