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Just taking a few moments to reflect...

I haven't had much time to blog lately. Even though I didn't have class this week due to Spring Break, I have been more busy writing my midterm paper. FUN FUN! I am done with the extended response (5-6 pages) but still have the 2-3 page one to work on. Hopefully it's not too bad. The week after next is Spring Break for my school, but we will literally be spending the WHOLE week, I'm sure, getting our house ready to sell. We still have lots of organizing to do of the random crap that ends up in our basement! LOL! So we can actually showcase that the basement can be used as a big storage area and not a big cluttered area! Our goal is to hopefully use the room in the garage as a 'work out room' and then use the extra space in the garage as more storage. Just having it organized is the goal. As for the house, there are only a few little things we need to do...touch up paint, clean high and low, etc. but I am sure it will take the whole week. My mom is coming to watch Ava a few days, and she could go to the sitter as I am pretty sure we have to pay her anyway. I will have class and homework to do as well.

I've also been sick and tired but I still have a hard time going to bed at a decent time. By the time we get Ava to bed and I try to get things picked up and things ready for the next day (lunch packed, clothes picked out, etc.) I'd like to watch AT LEAST ONE SHOW! Then it's 10pm already. So sometimes I stay up and watch another show just b/c I want to be able to veg. You'd think I'd go to bed, but NO! I want to be awake to enjoy it, I guess. LOL!

At this point, my class is kicking my butt with all the reading, homework, etc. It isn't the actual going to class that is hard...but I'm hoping I can get through it. I guess I'm in no hurry considering it took me over 10 years to go back in the first place. I just know I have to keep truckin on or I might never go back again. I am debating about taking a summer class, but hopefully I can take at least one. Then in the fall if I take one, I'll get my first pay raise (as little as it will be!)...I'll take it! But I like to have summer to enjoy time with Ava so that makes it hard. I think most are not for the whole summer, so it should be fine. The only other thing that might conflict is the Wisconsin Dells girls (family) trip we take each summer...So, keep the positive thoughts my way so I can keep it up! I am still trying to decide if I want to keep Reading or switch to Sp. Ed. With the cuts they are talking about in our district for special ed, I'd hate to get my masters in something that I couldnt use just in case I would ever want to. At this point, I love teaching art and will keep doing that, I'm pretty sure!!!

On another note, Miss Ava is keeping us busy. We LOVE Kindermusik every Wed. She sings the songs at home and loves listening to the at home CD. She will even break out in "Bow, wow, wow..." (Whose dog art thou...), and it is soo cute! She also attemps, "Walk along, walk along, walk along Rover." She also sings "inkle inkle tar..." One day in the car it took me a few minutes to figure out what she was saying! Then it dawned on me..."Twinkle, Twinkle, Star." So cute!

She is in a phase of saying "No" to EVERYTHING! "Do you want to take a bath?" NO..."Let's do this..." NO...She has had to sit in many a time out for saying no when we ask her to come here, or something of that nature. Little stinker! :)