My daughter is 4 1/2 years old. Now you have to understand how important the 1/2 is. I don't ever rember the 1/2 being that important, but then again I was the oldest child. She however is the younges of the cousins, and I think that is where the 1/2 came in to play.  Well anyway, my baby started her first day of elementary school last week. Here they started on Wednesday. That first day was rough as expected, with the giant alligator tears streaming down her face as this woman whom we had just met explains that mommy has to go and that they needed to go to assembly. Man that SUCKED!! There is nothing more heart wrenching than you kid calling for you and you know you can't do anything. That is all part of the growing up part right. I knew that it was going to work out for the best and that we just had to get used to it but at that time I felt like I was abandoning my child, and that is never a good feeling, but the day passed and I picked her up from school and all was well!!! She loved school and couldn't wait to go back!! I was pretty sure that was going to be the end result, but you never know!!! 

Is it just me or when your kids start going to school doesn't it feel like you are starting all over again?  Tardy, and lunch lines and backpacks and Thursday folders, and PE and Computer Lab.... man that seems like it was just the other day that I graduated from Highschool, and in all actuallity it was 8 years ago. 8 years, holly shit, I just made myself feel really old. I hate it when I do that.

What are some of your first days of school stories?

I find myself having all of these thoughts of entries that I need to make and things that I want to shout to the world, but never have ( or actually take) the time to do them and for that I am sorry. Ville's hubby is working on my puter so that I can get internet at home and maybe that will rectify the problem.  Bare with me .... I will get better at this... or at least I am going to make a personal effort to do so.

Work is crazy there is a chance I might be able to move the office to Stillwater, so that way I won't have to commute. The drive isn't that bad, but it would be nice not have to do it. Plus, if I didn't have to commute then I could work a regular 8-5 with a lunch break, and I could actually go to lunch and stuff.

Pock (my daughter) is growing and getting tall and just a mini me. She is interested in all types of things, from bugs to dance and dressup to cattle showing. I am excited and I just hope that I am able to offer the open door so that she can do anything that she is interested. (Side note: I was very limited on the extra ciricular things that I could do as a kid. No one's fault and it is not because my parents didn't want me to do things... long story) Anyway I want to be able to allow her to try things and see what her interests are and have a very diverse set of hobbys or talents.

I am taking a stained glass class, and I love it. I will have to do a seperate post on this in more detail, but it has basicaly become an obsession. Especially when I have lots of time on my hands, like when Pock is at her dads.

I bought a guitar! I would like to learn to play, because that is something that Pock is interested in as well. She got one for Christmas, and now I have one and hopefuly by the time we go to our annual festivals we will feel comfortable enough with it that we can play along with them. That is trully exciting for me.

Well I have gotta get back to work for now. But if the boss leaves again I will have a chance to post more.

That was the longest two weeks that I have endured in a while.  Don't get me wrong, there were some fun times had, but there were many tooo quiet, lost feeling moments in the last two weeks.  My daughter went to her dad's house for the first round of the summer visitation schedule, we will do this two more times before the summer is over.  Each year presents it's own new obsticles to overcome.  All, in all I think that we both did good, she probably did better than I did, but that is a different subject.  This years obsticle for me was that she didn't call everyother day like she did last year, and I had to fight the urge to call her, she needs the time to be with that side of her family, and when we did talk on the phone she usually got sad and homesick, and I don't want to intentally put her through that. So I fought it and I told her that she could call me anytime that she wanted, and I just waited for that time. She came home on Sunday evening, as the time got closer, it couldn't go fast enough. At 5pm, I met her dad and his wife at the gas station that was our switch off point, she looked at least a foot taller, and tan, and excited to see my mother and I pull up. She couldn't wait to tell us all about her "vacation" at her dad's. They went fishing, and camping and got a pool, and played and played. I am glad that she enjoys going overthere, since I am court ordered to have her go.  But, anyway, the important thing is that I have her back and she will be home for the next two weeks, and then we do it all again.

I have officially started my new position.  There are many things that I am learning to adapt to in this transition phase in my employment.  Don't get me wrong it is nothing that difficult, I just was spoiled working in my old job.  Even though the dresscode there was strict we still had time to cut up and have fun, or at least our office made the time for fun.  It was the only way to stay sain.  I miss the people that I worked with and gave a hard time to.  There was David and he was the Office Manager and he appeared to be really straightlaced, but he has a bit of a rebel streak. He and his wife make such a cute and nausiatingly adorable couple.  Then there was Senor, he is the Outside Sales person, and he is quiet and shy and is normally all about business, but don't let him fool you because out of no where he will zap you with a come back or a quick jab and it is hilarious!!! There was Rhonda who was the Front Office Receptionist.  She is probably one of the nicest and most sincere people that I have ever met.  She is always offering to help someone out or assist anyone with anything, if she can't do it herself she knows someone who can.  And last but sertainly not least there was Debra.  Her and I hit it off real well right from the start. It was a blast working together, we would crack up for no reason at all or at something that was so stupid we shouldn't have been laughing.  I miss looking over through that window and making faces at her while she was interviewing someone, or send her an email when she was trying to be serious and then when her computer would recieve it the email notification would "quack".  I am really feeling home sick, only I won't be going back.  That is a really weird feeling, we worked hard and got massive amounts of things accomplished, but it didn't necessarily feel like work because it was soooo much fun. 

But back to my current position, I like it here and things are going to be great for me.  There is always a bit of a learning curve anytime that you start something new, and I am going to get used to it.......... but nothing can compare to those guys!

HAPPY CINCO de MAYO EVERYONE!!!!!