I'm not quite sure how, but we're doing it and this semester is almost over! We're both finishing up school, directing a musical at a junior high, and I landed my dream role as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie! The day that I graduate also happens to be the same weekend that both our Junior High show and Millie open. Talk about crazy - but this means that after April 20th, I'm home for good.
Juggling these activities have required careful scheduling: Drop Claire off to a Grandma or to play with her friend Diana, we both go to school, I pick her up and we play for an hour, we go to rehearsal at the junior high and Kelland meets us there, come home, teach piano lessons, have dinner, put Claire to bed, and then I leave for rehearsal. It's been super nuts - but the worst is over! This week is my Spring Break and Kelland's last week of Student teaching. This means that Claire gets to be home with us and we don't have to take her anywhere in the mornings from now on!
We've had such a great day together just the two of us being home. We had breakfast, picked up the house (you don't even want to know how messy our house is from all this!), went for a run with our dog Daisy, played downstairs in our playroom, I taught her preschool, we read some books, and now she's napping. Seriously, our life will be so nice and relaxing once we slow down a bit.
Other News:
- We have finally got rid of Claire's binky. I know, it's been a long time comin, but with other people watching her a few hours a day, we felt like she needed it for security. On Friday, with mom and dad being able to stay home with her, we decided it was time. I cut a tiny hole in the binky with scissors, and she couldn't figure out what was wrong. She kept saying, "Fix it." We told her it was broken. You would have thought someone had died with the way she bawling. We read a book called Binkies are not Forever which she has read by herself everyday since saying, "Bye Bye binky" on every page. Not too bad though, I thought we would have World War III on our hands, but after one hard night, she's over it.
- I can't believe that Claire's birthday party is in 2 weeks! Seriously, when did she turn 2? She's getting so big!
- My laptop broke. (That's another reason why I haven't blogged in a while, I haven't had a computer) I got another one, and we're seeing if they can retrieve the data off of the old computer. I seriously cry when I think of all the information that we might lose.
- We've been going on lots of fun outings on Saturdays and spare moments throughout the week. We can't just work all the time! We went to the aquarium, the Treehouse many times, the Hill Force Base Museum, and many trips to the library. Now that it's also getting warm outside, we are enjoying playing outside in our backyard. More posts to come with pictures!
This is a REAL penguin! Cool huh? The worker told us that each square inch of their body has hundreds of feathers and that's why the water just slides right off of them.
This is a Sting Ray tank and 4 of them swim around and people are allowed to stick in their fingers to stroke their back. I'm normally not a touchy kind of person and would pass up a petting zoo, but how often can you pet a sting ray? I was brave and I did it.
