Day of Rest, eh?

So somehow I always seem to jam-pack my Sundays. Not my Saturdays...those I try to sleep in, not worry about work or anything else. Since Sean works nights Wed night through Sun morning and sleeps during the days, I don't plan on doing more than maybe seeing him before he leaves for work around 4:45 on Sat night.

Today was a lot of stuff!

Sean and I were going to go to 8:30a service and then hang out, let me practice with the Nikon he gave me *squeal* and whatever else we felt like doing on our only mutual day off. Too bad things never go according to plan :P

First off, it was rainy. I saw that when I got up and realized that we couldn't go take pictures out in that kind of weather. Oh well, I thought, and showered. I got out and called Sean. No answer. I finished getting ready and tried calling him when I was driving towards church. Nope. Drats, methinks, his phone is dead.

I sat through church, coughing and hacking now and then. No peace passed to me today....don't worry, it was totally at my request! I'm hoping my precious students didn't send me home with anything too troublesome! Anyway, after church I hung out for a while at Walgreens, went over and got some warm bagel and Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks while reading one of Bill Bryson's books.

After 11, I drove to TJ Maxx and found a wine rack for Sean. I went to his house, but he still wasn't awake. At least his car was there so I knew he had made it home safely :) I went back home, making a detour at CVS to pick up a box to make a care package later.

I saw The Tale of Despereaux! After reading the book the previous week, I can definitely say I was fairly disappointed. No scene in the movie matched exactly to the book. The beginning was off, the characters were each tweaked to fit the movie...it was cute, but I was burning with frustration over the fact that it hadn't been as adorable as the book. *Sigh* Oh well, it was a good way to spend some time :)

I went and picked up Turbo Tax - yippee! I'm fairly certain this year will be painful, as I had over 5 jobs last year alone. Gah! Oh well, at least I'll be able to get started on it soon....after Sean or I reformat my lg laptop:)

After getting some Wendys' I finally got ahold of Sean. We hung out for a bit at his place while he woke up, but once he was ready to go, we headed out to the stores. We ran over to Penn Camera to see if they had a camera strap he wanted for his new Nikon. Then we made a detour to World Market....oooh if only we could register there without feeling loads of guilt! So much beautiful stuff there that he and I agree on! Sheesh! We can't even do that in Bed Bath and Beyond!! Anyway.....

Later we went and met up with Cortney to knit, and a friend of hers stopped in and basically talked computer/tech/camera shop talk with Sean while we knitted the beginning of scarves! We were at Caribou until they closed! Great times:) Sean and I went over to Chipolte afterwards and got some late dinner before heading back to his house.

Sean actually asked ME if HE could do some wedding work to help me out! God's blessed me with a rare gem - back off ladies, he's mine:) I'm so excited to plan this special day with my beloved and prepare for the rest of my lifetime with him! We still have many many details to go, but friends and family alike have offered help, advice, and other blessings:)

Quick Post....

Monday night I started 2 scarves. Last night I started either a wide scarf or a mini shawl. We'll see how long these last! This is more of a post to see if I can get them done in 2 weeks like I did the first scarf...then again, THAT scarf had no design whatsoever, and these I'm doing cable stitches. Ahhh! We'll see:)

I'm waiting for my laundry to finish. it has most of my work pants and all but one of my work shirts. Sometimes I despise not being able to wear jeans or sweatpants, even nice ones of either type. I've tried finding khakis or other things, but haven't had any luck regarding size. Meh. At least it gets me up in the morning - "Gotta put my stuff in the dryer or I won't have ANYTHING to wear!" :P

Tonight I babysit right after work. Like seriously, immediately afterwards. 9:30-6:30 work then 7-9:30? babysitting. I have to run to the library on my lunch break to get a few DVDs that the kids will watch:) Their favorite is Curious George - the mini movies that go along with the books. Hopefully there's at least one on the shelf by the time I arrive!

PS - So many of my friends are engaged, married, and having babies. Seriously!!! Part of me is a bit jealous, but I know everything's in God's timing and rarely in mine:)

Fall is Here!

Actually it's been here for quite some time, but I haven't had the time/energy to post since the 9th. Holy cow:)

I am LOVING my job at the daycare. It's truly a joy to see 20 kids learning and playing together in this kind of atmosphere. Sometimes there are rough patches, but then we have outside time and naptime - basically moments where us teachers can sit back and breathe, if only for 5 minutes:) My co-teacher is amazing. She has tons of ideas that she wants to implement into the classroom. I'm here to help execute them AND help her keep her sanity. Haha, I've even put a Yankee Fall Candle up in one of our cupboards so that whenever either of us are seriously stressed, we just smell it for a few seconds and go on with our day a bit more relaxed!

Things with Sean are going amazing as well. Initially when he moved nearby, I was all gun-ho about getting together as often as possible. Part of me learned, however, that he needs some time on his own too, so we've been working on finding a good balance. We're trying for a once a week date - usually Friday, since our paychecks come then:P - and then the other nights we're free just relaxing watching a movie or Farscape:) I'm really praying that God guides us in the right direction, and I think so far we're staying on track with Him, because there's a peace about our relationship that I can't quite explain. Yay, God! :)

I'm starting up knitting again. Some might be for Christmas gifts, but most are just to experiment. I have sadly lost (during the transit of moving home and moving to Fairfax) my 1/4th completed black scarf that had an amazing cable pattern on it. Okay, simple pattern, but it was amazing to me;P I went to Walmart last weekend and bought some needles to replace the ones the partly-created scarf was attached to, but I had black yarn. I won't do a complete replicate, but I'd like to start doing something similar. So far, 1 knitted, 1 crocheted, and I put 2 more scarves on the needles at 11:30 last night:P Should be a great winter!

Alright, time to pack my lunch and take some drugs so that I survive today:) We have a mandatory meeting after work tonight, so I won't be home before 8:30. Lovely! As long as it doesn't make me sick....that's the kids' job ;)

Back Home...

Our family took the blessed 10 hour drive back to Virginia from Vermont. It took us a bit under 10 hours despite traffic and rain in 3 states - YAY!

I lost my voice on the way in:-P

We got home and discovered that one of my car's tires was flat. Dad pumped it back up, circled the nail in chalk, and drove to a dealer to have them patch it..... turns out there was 2 nails. Where the heck do I pick these things up?? Thankfully it's fixed and MUCH cheaper than an $81 new tire!

I left around 6:45 to come back to Lynchburg because frankly, I missed everyone. I loved time with my family, but it was a LOT of time when you've been gone to college and doing summer classes every year since you graduated high school:) I arrived at Seans a bit after 10, hung out with him (mostly listened to him since when I talk I squeak). Went back to my house around 12, where Chaia and I stayed up for nearly 2 hours catching up on life and laughing over bad pickup lines:)

So I'm back in the beautiful Forest, VA and hopefully going to finish up every bit of my DLP classes as soon as possible!

PS - I took up knitting again - YAY! I'd forgotten how bad I am at this, but at least I'm having fun. First a simple headband for Sammy making a \/\/\/\/ pattern on it using backward stitches (not sure how to explain that any better), then maybe a hat for practice? We shall see!