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Meet Amy
I have struggled with the answer when asked, "What do you do?" and it isn't work-related. Ultimately, we settled on that I find things and untangle things. But I also read (a lot), pretend to wake surf, and watch Hallmark films.
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 Today I shared a moment of silence with my 3rd grader and all of the other parents that attended the Veteran’s Day program.
I got all choked up and held back tears.
Thank you! Thank you veterans for serving our great country. Thank you for fighting for freedom and liberty. Thank you for making such huge sacrifices so that we can have agency. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
At the end of the program, the 3rd graders presented all veterans in attendance a rose of gratitude. I saw this hero and couldn’t help but take his photo. I hope he is okay with my sharing this, because I didn’t think to ask for his permission.
PS – Jade did a wonderful job on her part of the program and I am loving hearing her singing the national anthem as she’s cleaning, eating, playing or doing homework.
…or rather “Blogger’s block”.
I keep wanting to post about what we’ve been doing, share a recipe or two and give a sampling of the photos I’ve been taking. But instead, every time I sit down to the computer, I feel like I should be posting job applications, sharing my resume and giving a sampling of who I am and why a high tech company should hire me. So, I post, share and give but not to my blog.
I’m missing my blog, I am missing the friendships that have formed from being a part of the blogging world.
But, I feel like my voice is being swallowed up by the desire and need to find a job. Wednesday it will be two months. Two months of not feeling like myself. Two months of feeling guilty that I am not accomplishing enough in my day – even though I feel like I am constantly on the move. Two months of not getting great projects done because the “need to find a job” cloud is hovering close over my head and mood.
On the bright side…
- I am taking a ballet class twice a week. And that is AWESOME.
- I am getting to pick up my girls from school each day and I get to be the one to hear about everything that happened. (Something I never want to let go of).
- I’ve enjoyed reading a lot of really good books (of course that means I’m not going to sleep so I’m a bit on the tired side).
- My tulips have gotten planted – finally.
- I am interviewing with several really fantastic companies and have been approached about some really fantastic jobs
- For the first time in 6 years, I’ve gotten an awesome tan even with SPF 30 sunscreen.
- My girls have a sun tan to match mine.
So, my post my remain infrequent but I promise to share when I can. And now, I’m off to apply to a position a friend told me about today. Wish me luck.
In the meantime, here’s a sunset from our weekend in Lake Powell. It is one of the few pictures I have taken a minute to edit…
I’ve been a bit absent lately. I am going to do my best to do a better job of being present in my little corner of the web. It has been an interesting and fun few weeks. But the point of this post is to share something that we do each year to make the first week of school special…
I can’t believe my baby is in kindergarten. She has been asking for months about her first day of kindergarten. It was a relief to finally be able to say “Next week” instead of “In THREE months!” She laid out her clothes for the first day a week before and was having pretend conversations with her friends that she knew would be in the same class. There were three days that Jade was at school and Ivy wasn’t. Those three days were filled with talk about what her first day would be like and the hugs that she would share with her friends.
Then the morning of her first day came. She was a little bit more scared than I expected her to be. All of her pictures have that “deer-in-the-headlights” look. But we managed to capture one that I loved enough to welcome her home with.
Each year, we take pictures in the morning before school. Then I blow my favorite up to 16×20 (Costco $5.99) and put a congratulations message on the bottom of the photo. This poster is then hung in a window on the front of the house. Then the kids are greeted with their adorable face.
Here is Ivy’s from her first day of Kindergarten….
Jade started third grade, so we took her picture on the third day of third grade. (Costco had some printer issues so she wasn’t greeted by her smiling face until after dance class.)
This photos hang from their closet doors the rest of the year. They LOVE these posters. And I love having the posters documenting how much they have grown each year.
I do like working and I feel like I am a better mom when I am working. But right now, I am LOVING being home with my girls.
It has been five working days now since I was let go. We have had a great time and a productive time. And because I have a super amazing mom, I have had some special guidance on some fun crafts.
The other day we made “flying friends”. I don’t know if they actually fly because my girls put them on their fingers, in their hair and have decorated their rooms with them.
You start out with fun colored paper cut into squares. We had 3 inch and 5 inch squares.
Accordion fold them from corner to corner. (you will need two squares per butterfly).
Fold a pipe cleaner in half, pinch the middle of the two accordion squares and wrap the pipe cleaner around it. Be sure the pipe cleaner is twisted tight on both sides of the paper.
Curl the pipe cleaner tails like butterfly antenna.
Spread out the wings and pop them out just enough they stay open.
It has been a while since I’ve entered the I Heart Faces contest. But now that I seem to have a little more time on my hands, I thought I would. After all, I will have time to comment on some of the amazing entries.
Jade is my little water bug. She seems to be happiest in the water and she actually likes her green hair. I took this picture on Saturday morning. The sun was behind the wake boarders most of the morning, and I have yet to master the sun flare. So, only part of her face is lit. And I’m also not great at photoshop so I couldn’t put more light on her face.
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Today I shared a moment of silence with my 3rd grader and all of the other parents that attended the Veteran’s Day program.
