Sunday, January 31, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
After the Rain
This is what it looks like at the end of my street....a few 100 feet away. This is what it looked like yesterday after 5 days of on and off rain. The best part about it is the Valley smog clears away and you can see for miles and miles. You can make it out if you open the picture, but those are the Superstition Mountains in the background enveloped in the clouds left from this last storm.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Late-January update
I'm about to go pick up Madeleine from a play date but I thought I would update the blog world about our week. I set up the play date for Madeleine mid-week with one of her classmates and she has been sooo excited! I love to see her that way. She needed a note from me for her teacher so that she could go in her friend's Mom's car and not on the bus and she must have asked me 20 times for that note! She had all kinds of plans for what they would do this afternoon and I will find out shortly what they ended up doing.
I said last time that I've been meandering this week and that hasn't changed much. I did fill out a couple of on-line applications and have some ideas of consolidating all of my information...addresses of companies I've worked for, exact dates I worked, etc. into one generic form that I have next to me every time I fill out an application so I don't have to remember and/or look for this information each and every time. It was suggested by my churches employment services office and I just haven't gotten to it. This is a goal for next week.
On another topic, Madeleine had her stitches removed on Monday and she is doing just fine. It is always amazing to me how quickly she bounces back from things and this was no exception. She's back to normal except for a little hobbling off and on her foot, but the doctor was so cognizant because she made a point of telling me that this would happen, that I shouldn't worry about it or stop her and that it will get better over time.
As for other Madeleine news, I was speaking with a friend about some math school work that was in Madeleine's folder with a lot of mistakes in addition and subtraction. When I first started this school year I was so worried about Madeleine's progress. Now? I honestly don't want to make a big deal about the mistakes in her addition and subtraction. I don't even remember doing addition and subtraction in Kindergarten except for perhaps adding up toothpicks. I believe it is a developmental skill that will come to her naturally and while a part of me wants to worry about it, the other part says "she is in Kindergarten for goodness sakes!" I'm going to let her be a kid. She'll get it when she is ready!
It's been raining all week in Arizona on and off. Last night we had a wind storm with the advisory of a tornado warning to boot! We lost electricity, a tree fell down and a friend of mine's dog ran away in fear of the monster storm. It looks like it's going to rain again any minute after a day with sunshine. All of the weather is supposed to move out by tomorrow. While I liked it, I'm looking forward to desert like conditions returning. Weather will be warming in the next month and light will be returning in the morning and that will make life even better.
Have a great weekend. :)
I said last time that I've been meandering this week and that hasn't changed much. I did fill out a couple of on-line applications and have some ideas of consolidating all of my information...addresses of companies I've worked for, exact dates I worked, etc. into one generic form that I have next to me every time I fill out an application so I don't have to remember and/or look for this information each and every time. It was suggested by my churches employment services office and I just haven't gotten to it. This is a goal for next week.
On another topic, Madeleine had her stitches removed on Monday and she is doing just fine. It is always amazing to me how quickly she bounces back from things and this was no exception. She's back to normal except for a little hobbling off and on her foot, but the doctor was so cognizant because she made a point of telling me that this would happen, that I shouldn't worry about it or stop her and that it will get better over time.
As for other Madeleine news, I was speaking with a friend about some math school work that was in Madeleine's folder with a lot of mistakes in addition and subtraction. When I first started this school year I was so worried about Madeleine's progress. Now? I honestly don't want to make a big deal about the mistakes in her addition and subtraction. I don't even remember doing addition and subtraction in Kindergarten except for perhaps adding up toothpicks. I believe it is a developmental skill that will come to her naturally and while a part of me wants to worry about it, the other part says "she is in Kindergarten for goodness sakes!" I'm going to let her be a kid. She'll get it when she is ready!
It's been raining all week in Arizona on and off. Last night we had a wind storm with the advisory of a tornado warning to boot! We lost electricity, a tree fell down and a friend of mine's dog ran away in fear of the monster storm. It looks like it's going to rain again any minute after a day with sunshine. All of the weather is supposed to move out by tomorrow. While I liked it, I'm looking forward to desert like conditions returning. Weather will be warming in the next month and light will be returning in the morning and that will make life even better.
Have a great weekend. :)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Meandering
I told a friend today that I've been meandering the last couple of days and not getting a lot done. She agreed that this was a great descriptive word for how she was spending her time lately as well "meandering". A definition of the word? "To move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction." [according to the Free Dictionary by Farlex]
This is definitely how I've been feeling. I don't know if it's the unusual weather we've been having here in Arizona this week (rain) or the after effects of Madeleine's trauma of last week or getting rejected by another company or spending a lot of time thinking about Haiti or getting back to the gym but supposedly I'm looking for a job and instead I'm meandering.
I have to go back to sleep for at least a little while. I here the pitter patter of yet more rain outside. It is supposed to rain all day and all night until tomorrow morning. I'll sleep to the pitter patter for a couple of hours until I have to get up and start another day. First with kids (I'm taking care of the girls again in the morning only) and then meandering.
This is definitely how I've been feeling. I don't know if it's the unusual weather we've been having here in Arizona this week (rain) or the after effects of Madeleine's trauma of last week or getting rejected by another company or spending a lot of time thinking about Haiti or getting back to the gym but supposedly I'm looking for a job and instead I'm meandering.
I have to go back to sleep for at least a little while. I here the pitter patter of yet more rain outside. It is supposed to rain all day and all night until tomorrow morning. I'll sleep to the pitter patter for a couple of hours until I have to get up and start another day. First with kids (I'm taking care of the girls again in the morning only) and then meandering.
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