The year is coming to a close at the end of this week. It's wild to think how much has happened in a year. I look around at everything else going on around me sometimes and am shocked. This one is married or engaged, that one is pregnant, those people are buying a house. It seems like every year more and more people are moving onto bigger and better things with their lives. I hope by this time next year, I will be one of those people. I'm not looking to have another kid or buy a house or even finally start planning my wedding. I am just hoping that we will be in a better position than we are in now... or even nearly there. In my eyes, my fiance will be done with school by the end of September so with any luck, the job placement system the school has will get him in somewhere good. Then we can finally afford to get our own place again.
The kids obviously don't stop growing. Little Miss is coming into that age where she is testing her boundaries again and that little pre-teen attitude comes out more frequently now. She gets upset a lot and doesn't know why. Sometimes I believe that she doesn't know what's bothering her. More often than not, I think it's more that she doesn't want to talk about it. That's hard for her and for us, too, because how can you make something or someone better when you don't know what's wrong? I just hope we can keep her concentrating on school and working hard... and innocent... as long as possible. I feel like with technology growing, it's harder to keep childrens innocence intact for very long. The Bean is going to be starting daycare when my fiance begins school. I am nervous, but I think it will be good for him to socialize with children his own age. I just hope we can afford it without emptying our bank account.
Things are my job are going decently well. The new computer system we have is getting more manageable. We are learning how to speed up the process and get ahead of the game. The patients are still pretty wacky sometimes. But we all get along pretty well there and the days have been getting easier. We joke around a lot, which is pretty good. It relieves a lot of stress to be able to vent to people that know exactly what you are talking about and feel the same way.
Christmas went well. Relatively uneventful considering how much needed to be done. We did all of the prep work for christmas dinner days in advance, on christmas eve and that morning. So not much had to be done in the afternoon. So I was able to go to my grandmothers and not have to worry about cooking when I got back, which was nice. The kids got loads of gifts, of course. And both were very happy. The Bean kept talking about christmas trees and santa claus and saying merry christmas to people. It was adorable. Little Miss was thankful for the gifts we got her. She started playing with her microscope the next day. I love that she is interested in science. The Bean kept wanting to read all of his books, which of course makes any parent happy. I thought it was so cool that out of all the gifts they got, they were interested in the educational ones. The Bean had gotten a play kitchen from my aunt and uncle and played with it nonstop for the first two days he got it. That was last weekend. Now he's all about the books. But he does still play with it a lot. He loves to "cook" for everyone. He tells you to "try it" or "hot... blow". He's so proud of himself with it. And I love that he is using his imagination. I am so proud of those two kids. I feel very lucky to have them in my life.
Thanks for reading.
Peace & Love,
Emily
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