A Visit from Mimi & Claire

Last we one of my dearest friends in the whole world came for a visit and brought her darling daughter Claire. We had as much fun as two moms with small children could. We went into San Fransisco one day, dinner in Benicia, shopping at the outlets in Vacaville, and of course, what visit to Fairfield wouldn't be complete without a tour of the Jelly Belly Factory. Mims thanks for coming all the way from Arizona to see Carson, Steve and I! Lunch at the Cheese Cake Factory in Union Square.

The Jelly Belly Factory. Carson was at home with Steve. Claire holding Carson.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I could not resist taking the pictures in just his diaper. I had to capture all of the fat rolls on his arm!

Beehive Sleepover

As many of you know I am an adviser at church for the "Beehives" 12-13 year-olds. We get together and do an activity every week on Tuesday nights. This week the girls decided that they wanted to to a slumber party at my house Friday night. It was actually a mock slumber party and the girls went home at 10:00. We had a lot of fun making cookies, doing hair and make-up, playing Catch Phrase, and of course, playing Truth or Dare. I even showed them my junior high scrapbook so they could see what I looked like and the things I did at 12 and 13. Girls this age are such a crack-up! Aren't they a cute group of girls? Rochelle, sitting next to me is the other adult adviser.

Harvard Q & A about Mormonism

I found this great interview with a junior at Harvard, Rachel Esplin about her LDS believes. She does a great job explaining our faith. Check it out if you are interested.

http://hillel.harvard.edu/media/videos/550

Telling Dad all about my day

Aren't there any decent subs left in the world?

I've been on maternity leave since the end of October and my classroom has officially fallen apart... One of the biggest problems is that legally a substitute can only sub for 20 days at a time in a special ed. classroom without a special ed teaching credential. And no subs have a SPED credential. So just when the students start getting used to a person, a new one comes in. I guess it has been nothing but trouble since I've left. I teach a difficult group and frankly- I think the administration now realizes what a good job I've been doing now that I am gone! The latest sub was told not to come back because of alleged "inappropriate comments". They need me, I know, and I should go back, but my goodness so does my kid. I wish the school year was ending soon. This sucks.

It's Hard Being a Baby!

I swore I'd never have one... You all know what I am talking about...You see a cute baby and ask to hold it. He or she is smiling and cooing at you, then all the sudden SPLAT, there is spit-up everywhere! You politely hand the baby back and think to yourself, my kid won't be a spit-up kid. I'm here to say that all the wishing and hoping doesn't work. Does anyone know when he'll grow out of this? At least he is a pretty happy kid. It's hard being a baby when everything you eat comes back up again. It's hard being a mommy too!