Time After Time

Wow-what a busy few weeks we have had! Now that I am back at work, finding time to sit down in front of the computer is almost impossible. I'll do my best not to bore everyone with all the details and will just highlight what we've been up to lately.

I wrote last about Mother's Day weekend and we've finally uploaded pictures from our visit with my family. Below is a picture of her with both of her great-grandmothers, Grandma Lowman and Grandma Sugars. Notice how Jules is asleep in the middle of a restaurant! What a good little girl!

My college roommate, Brittany, was in town from Seattle for a few days due to a friends wedding over Mother's Day weekend. She stopped by Tuesday night to meet Juliann.

The weekend after Mother's Day, David had to go out of town to Las Vegas for work. I know, poor thing. He left on Saturday morning early and didn't return until Wednesday evening. The weekend wasn't so bad, but Monday-Wednesday were not much fun. It is hard being a single parent and I am very thankful for David and all he does to help me out with Jules and around the house.

For Memorial Day weekend we visited with both sets of Juliann's grandparents. We left Richmond Friday evening and headed up to Wintergreen to visit David's parents.

Saturday afternoon we drove down to Smith Mountain Lake to visit my parents, sister, and brother. Juliann also took her first boat ride. She wore a little life vest and the rocking of the boat seemed to lull her to sleep.

This past week was crazy as usual. We've tried to relax a little here this weekend, but there's always something to do around the house. David continues to work on the porch....a year and counting! Speaking of counting, I am counting down the days until I'm done with work. 9 more days with kids and 1 teacher work day. Yay! Also, if we're talking about counting, today Juliann is 4 months old. Hard to believe she was once this little (and yellow). Now she's pushing 12 pounds if not more! We'll find out when we go for her check-up in 2 weeks.

We're going to attempt to upload more photos to shutterfly sometime this week. Check back for updates and new pics next week. Love to all!

Momma Mia!

With a crazy first week back at work finally over, I was really looking forward to the weekend. But, as the saying goes, "no rest for the weary." We had our neighborhood yard sale on Saturday morning so there was no sleeping in. We had a lot of stuff (aka junk) to sell and an overcast day didn't help out our cause. I think we ended up spending half of what we made on things for Jules. We got a cute pink-purple-yellow-green cubby type shelf that fits perfectly in her closet and holds lots of things. David also got a backpack carrier for $5. It is not new by any means and she won't be able to use it for a few months-but c'mon-it was $5! After a few hours, we decided we were done selling and packed up shop. We then headed to Culpepper to meet my parents, my grandmother (mom's mom), and my grandparents (dad's parents) for dinner to celebrate Mother's Day. We had a nice meal and I think everyone enjoyed seeing Juliann. The only problem we had the whole day was that Juliann seemed to be coming down with a cold and wasn't her usual happy self. In fact, she was starting to sound like Darth Vader!

Sunday was Mother's Day and, to be honest, I wasn't really expecting anything big from David. He had already admitted on Friday that he hadn't had a chance to go get a card and that Mother's Day was ALL day so there was no rush. He could go out and get me a card and flowers sometime during the day Sunday. But to my surprise, Sunday morning he pulled out a card from him, one from Juliann, and then a small little box. Inside were beautiful diamond earrings! I cried! :) Then, to make the day even more special, Juliann blessed us with about 2 minutes of true laughing! The giggles are cute, but only last a second. This was true belly laughing. David and I laughed so hard, we were crying! What a great Mother's Day!

Working 9 to 5....

Or in our case, 7:30 to 3:30. Today was d-day. Juliann spent her first full day at the sitters and I went to work. After a very busy day, we are both exhausted! Surprisingly, I didn't cry-I was way too busy! Having so much to do was actually a good thing-kept me from being emotional. The kids were great and happy to see me and everything seemed to run pretty smoothly. The sitter also said Jules was fabulous (although, I'm sure she would have lied and told me the same thing if she had been a hellion) and was really going to enjoy keeping her. I have a lot to do tonight, and am worried about pulling off the miracle that occurred this morning every morning for the next 6 weeks! Let's hope! Okay....off to do more work. Obviously the job of a teacher (and a parent) never ends. I think the saying should be something more like "working all day and all night" because that is obviously more realistic of my two chosen professions.