Where’s the Time Gone?

I can’t believe I haven’t written since the 12th! It’s been a crazy few weeks. Trying to get into a new routine, spending time with the kids and still holding up the fort (although the fort’s a little messier than usual these days!) barely allows me time to check my e-mail, much less update my site.

I’ve gotten the hang of all my tasks at work, even when we have a flood of students stopping by the library. I imagined myself running away screaming if it got overwhelmingly crowded (which it does), but I’ve dealt surprisingly well. My boss is great, the parent volunteers are great and just about everyone I’ve met there is great. I’m still not too thrilled about waking up at 5:50am (and tossing and turning about an hour before that because I’m paranoid the alarm won’t go off), but I like getting out early and spending time with my kiddos. I see Mario even less now, unfortunately, but we’re trying to work on that =\.

It’s time for me to iron and shower, so I’ll go ahead and make this quick. Alaethia turned 8 months old today…aww, my little baby’s growing up so quickly! She’s been teething since Saturday, which was the day of Yazmin’s Quinceañera, and Mom recently taught her how to dance (i.e. bopping up and down) and clap! It’s the cutest thing! She brightens up the room with her gummy smile and she’s thrilled to see me when I come home from work. She’s got separation anxiety like crazy, but it makes me a bit happy that she does because I was certain she’d forget me now that I’m working LOL. She stands and crawls like a pro and takes wide, ski-like steps with our help. She’s a doll :). She already got sick with a cold this past week (woke up every 2 hours the first night!), but it went away pretty quickly.

The boys are doing great at school. Their teachers speak the world of them. I’m so proud :). They performed so well at the Quince–I need to add all this past month’s pictures to Flickr. The sad thing that happened that night was that Jaylen was running around and tripped on his shoelace and busted his lip open. I was so afraid he’d broken all his teeth, but he’s alright, thank God. I had fun, even though Mario and I only danced to one son (I’ll Be – Edwin McCain) which was prompted by Yazmin. Eenan asked me to dance though, and then he requested the Chicken Dance and took me and Angela with him LOL. It was a nice night.

Okay, I probably missed a whole bunch of stuff, but I’ve gotta go. Hope everyone’s well and thank all 20 of you who’ve stuck by me even though I’m not updating much. Okay, at all. One day I’ll get all this worked out and I’ll have room for updating again! I’ve got my insurance meeting tomorrow. Wish me luck with that. I feel like I’m working for insurance alone–it’s so darn expensive!