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Another Year Older
July 30, 2006
It once again has been a wild week. I am wishing now for the month that nothing was going on and I was actually bored. I should have just sat back and enjoyed that. My story begins last Friday when Mike left with the girls to visit his parents for the weekend. I let him take my car since it has more room for the girls and I took his very old work car. My sister came up to spend the weekend with me. We planned a BIG shopping day for Saturday where I would find an outfit for the interview and buy some school clothes for Abbey. We leave on Saturday at 8am and were heading an hour away. We got maybe 15 miles from home on the interstate when the car started shaking. I called his parents house since his cell doesn't get signal there. They said he had left to donate blood. I got out checked the tires and none were flat. So I drove more. It got really bad I could hardly keep the car in the lane. I stopped again and called his cell and he picked up. He told me to check the lug nuts. When I opened the cover one fell out where it had just broken off. One had been broken off the year before when we were getting tires changed at SAMS and he had never gotten it fixed. The others were so loose I could move them with my hands. I tightened the best I could do and started back home. The car was still shaking so I pulled over again to tighten and this nice sweet Angel of a man stopped and tightened the for me. We made it back home without any trouble and the tire place fixed it in no time and we were back on the road within 2 hours. I was just so grateful that Mike didn't drive his car with the girls. The road they were traveling was a small two lane with lots of curves. I took the receipt from the tire place and SAMS happily reimbursed us.
The interview didn't go as well as I had hoped. I didn't get the room I wanted I got the assistant position. The more I thought about it the more it seemed to be a good thing. I will still get to teach but I will not have all the stress of being the primary person to deal with parents and I won't have to think of things to say all the time. So same pay and less stress yup I'll take it. I found out that some parents of four year olds wanted me in that class because they thought, "My energy would be an asset." I got to go look at my new room and it is big. We are starting to box stuff up for the move, which should take place in a couple of weeks. In case I didn't mention it. They have been working on a big new addition and it is almost finished.
Turning 30 was kind of hard. I spent most of the day lying on the couch with my head covered up. The day after my birthday was much better and I think I am over the blues. After all I don't look old and wrinkly so I guess it is ok.
Emmy is doing fine. She still amazes me everyday. She knows her shapes now. I have no idea how she learned them because I hadn't worked on them yet. She is working on her colors. She knows pink and blue and that is it. The other day she said the funniest thing. The girls were in the bath together and they were kicking each other and Abbey said "Emmy don't touch my privates" and Emmy said, "No you don't touch my pirate."
Abbey finished reading camp. I was really pleased. The evaluated her on her reading and gave me a copy and a copy was sent to her teacher. She is above average. When they averaged all the parts of the test she is in the 80 percentile in reading. On three parts of the test she scored like a child about to leave 3rd grade and start 4th. This made me very happy. We have worked really hard on her reading. She is expected to read me a story every night and in return I read her a story. She has finished all the books on starfall.com and we finished the Dick and Jane books.
I took both girls to a Kid Fest that was a lot of fun. Everything was free to kids 12 and under. They could play on the giant blow up slides and bouncy things they had a wagon ride pulled by donkey's Emmy road that twice. They had a pony pulling a cart we road that once. They had just ponies walking in a circle with children and Emmy did that twice and Abbey did it once. They petted goats and Abbey climbed a rock-climbing wall she got a foot from the top and came back down. I was really proud of her.
We are coming down to the last two weeks of summer vacation. We find out who her teacher is and who will be in her class on Tuesday. I think we are ready for school. Now if I can just get the house in order.
I am going to try to attach a picture of my girls. If I can it is one of them taken at the children's museum.
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