Changes, changes........

Well, looks as if the new year may be a time of many changes for us. Nothing drastic as of yet but a few things to make mention of.

Guess who's "working" again????????? Well, it's not full time, heck, it's not really even part time but I'm happy to be doing something other than cleaning my house and carting kids around to various activities. My friend Kathy was generous enough to suggest me for some side work at The Hockaday School (it's a private all girls school here in Dallas) doing various mailing, data entry, time consuming blah jobs. The best part is that I work from home on my own time in my jammies (if I want). Not glamorous but the perfect thing to ease me back into a "work world" mode without having to give up being a stay-at-home-mom to my boys. And heck, the extra money doesn't hurt either. ;)

Alex has been sprung from Speech therapy! The day his therapist took him to the potty and he exclaimed "Hey, my pee pee is yellow like a bird!" she figured his speech skills had reached the point where he really didn't need to be there anymore. LOL!

Parker has started some group therapy where he currently goes for Speech and OT. It's a social skills group with 3 other children. So far he's had 2 sessions and has done great! His therpaist even said he was "the example" for all the other kids! You have no idea how happy this makes me to hear something like that! Guess everything we've done for the past 4 years has really made a difference!

A brand new year!

January, a time to sweep away the guilt of what you didn't accomplish last year and make that list of all those things you swear to do this year. Right now my list is staring at me still blank but with all kinds of "maybes" floating around on the page.

Getting back to December of course......we had a really nice holiday. Saw Santa twice in one day and the boys were quite bold in expressing exactly what they wanted the big guy to bring. For Parker it was the Digitial Art and Crafts Studio (of course with how fast he says it it was heard as "thdigarsancratstudo" and so we gladly helped with translation). The only thing on Alex's list were choo-choo's, specifically Thomas and Percy. He wasn't even up in Santa's lap before he started yelling "I want Thomas and Percy Santa!!!!!" Luckily, Santa took note of their requests and both boys were very happy on Christmas morning. My parents and sister were here to celebrate with us. It was the usual orgy of gifts that I think poor Keith will never get used to. We had some great meals and Alex even got to help grandma make dumplings for chicken and dumplings. Keith and I also got some free-of-charge babysitting to go run errands, etc. which we always appreciate.

The boys are back at school now and Keith is back to work after being able to take off pretty muc the whole last 2 weeks of the year. Let's just say.....it was time. Having all this "boyishness" in my house 24/7 was wearing on my already thin nerves. LOL!

I have lots of pictures to post but they are on my laptop which is on it's way back to me after having been shipped to Dell for repair. Hopefully I'll get those photos on here soon. There are some pretty funny ones.

Hope everyone had a great holiday and we wish you all the best for 2009!