An Ode to the Joys of Parenthood

Monday, February 23, 2009

Bang Bang!


The ladybugs in our yard are mating like crazy this week.

My cousing Ernie got married this weekend. Yeah, we got a text message on Wednesday asking if we could come up on Saturday morning for his wedding. On friday he finalized details and married Tanya on Saturday morning at 10 am. I think that may be the quickest wedding planning I've ever experienced.

And I got new hair, thanks to my sister.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

I haven't blogged since Disneyland!

And so much stuff has happened! Isn't that the way it always goes? Since then, 1) Camille has started a preschool class at the La Mesa Rec Center that she absolutely LOVES 2) we have officially gotten rid of our car 3) My sister's house closed escrow (yay!) 4) I got certified to teach Group Cycling classes at the gym 5) Valentines Day has come and gone 6) well, I always forget something...


As stated above, Camille LOVES her preschool class and I am so happy about that! I was worried, and especially apprehensive since she asked to be pulled out of the last preschool she was going to. Also, she is supposed to start Kindergarten in the fall so I was worried that she would just hate preschool so much that I wouldn't know what to do about kindergarten. Now, I really think that homeschooling is the way to go IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR SANITY and be a great teacher for your children. I am not sure that I have it in me to do that. This whole kindergarten thing has been a real struggle for me and I am still not sure what the answer will be or what the future will hold for that. Currently, I have applications in for the Innovations Academy (part time school, great idea for me), Liberty First Charter (also half-day kindergarten, which is a biggie for me), San Diego Language Academy (Spanish language immersion program) and Hardy Elementary (just a normal school, close to my house). I am not sure which, if any, of these schools she'll get into. I initially also had an application in to the San Diego Cooperative Charter, but since selling our car and thinking about the reality of going to a school so far away we've decided it's not such a hot idea. We'd be better off to stay somewhere close and walkable, or at the very least bikeable.

So, yeah, kindergarten. Fun times. We'll just have to see what happens in the fall!

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

we went to Disneyland on Friday



My kids are so spoiled. This is the 3rd time since September. We also have SeaWorld passes, Zoo passes, Childrens Museum passes, (thanks, grandparents, for all of these by the way!)the beach a stone's throw away... How lucky are kids growing up in Southern California with all of this stuff within an easy drive? They have no idea. Sometimes I think we should just not ever go so it could be more of a treat than "the norm." Here are some pictures.



My lovely #2 with her hand in the Swiss Family Robinson tree (now Tarzan - WTF?!)


# 1 and her daddy, my beautiful husband

My kids with my mom



My sister and her baby-daddy in the honeycomb from Winnie the Pooh




Our car hit 100,000 on the way home!