Well, It is January 2nd 2007. Yep 2006 has ended and had I updated my credit card info I would be kept up on my blog. I guess I will have to Review the months I skipped and vow never to let it go this long again.....ha we will see, this is me we are talking about.
September.....Maddie still in school, Me on the other hand I started a new job. We really needed the money and I think I wanted the new challenge and excitement of the fast paced lifestyle. But it has been hard. Although I love my job, I really could not have asked for a more relaxing job, the hours are hard. I am a night owl anyway, but I usually use to sleep in with Maddie and get enough rest. Now I work 12AM to 7Am and I try to stay up until Jake gets off work. It has been a challenge. I feel like now I have no time for anything and less time with Maddie. I am trying to keep the house clean and spend quality time with Maddie. The bad thing is, I think I have been much more short with everyone, do to the unnatural schedule and my body is under stress. I think even my PMS is worse. And my family is getting the bunt end of my off scheduled body and mind trying desperately to adjust. I just can't seem to find a schedule that sticks.
I can't let go of this job. Jake and I like I said desperately need the extra money. And I afraid if I do I will loose one of the best jobs. So I endure and one day we will figure it all out.
I can't really think of anything completely interesting about September. Except that I love September. The Fall is my most favorite season.
October......I love October and can you guess who else does???? Maddie!!....It is her most favorite time because it is Halloween. We usually spend the last week or two indulging in Halloween events. We always every year visit barn yard boo, which is a Halloween event at the petting zoo. This year I am afraid, was to cold. We did have a few warm days. We did get to do other fun things. We went to the party at the Rec center and trick-or-treated and had sloppy joes. Maddie was invited to a party at her friend Mathews house. She had a Halloween party at school. On Halloween Day, we went to My husbands work and trick or treated from cubical to cubical. We have always trick-or-treated at novell, but this was the first year we did it at Linux Networx. I am grateful we got to. Maddie was of course a Halloween Cat. I went over board this year, trying to find something more fun then a plain Black cat. So I found a boa and mask and Ears with curly Hair and Called her Diva Cat. Maddie couldn't handle all the accessories, So I ended up with the Mask and Boa. Maddie ended up with a lot of Candy and so did Jake and myself. I am hoping we can put a few more events in next year. Hopefully some warmer weather. We did Paint pumpkins, but it was earlier in the month. Here is a picture of Maddie and I all Kittied up.
November....All is good, All my Christmas shopping for the girls was done. Maddie by this point is fighting me to go to school. Her teacher had a baby and I don't think she liked the sub. By now she knows her entire Alphabet....Yea!!!!! She is now bringing books home to read. The only problem is she hates to read them. What do I do???? I still do not know what to do. But I make another vow to nip this one in the butt soon. Her writing is getting better and better and she loves to write, so I figure if I spell to her a lot and she writes it, then maybe, she will pick up on some form of reading that way. I know I will find some way to deal with this.
So here is a new funny yet not so funny new thing. Maddie has fallen in love with the computer, but mainly a game called Zoo tycoon. The funny thing is, I use to play Zoo Tycoon all the time When I was pregnant. But Maddie is obsessed. I really mean obsesses. The first thing out of of her mouth in the morning is. Can I play Zoo Tycoon? She has learned a lot form the game, but it really has been a tuft obsession to wean. Though because of the love for the game she has learned much about the computer in general.
Jake went to Germany for work over thanksgiving and we missed him gravely, but we spoke to him on a program called skpe. You can see and hear the person clear from the other side of the world through the computer. Maddie is able to get on to the program and dial up her dad. Many times she would do this while it was his bedtime in Germany and wake him in the middle of the night. At first she had to show me how to use the program. She remembers things well.
Jake had set up a pass word for each girls accounts on the computer. They thought it would be neat to have one.... So Jake thought it would be easier for Maddie to have the password be a single letter, so it became M. Maddie decided she wanted her entire name as the password. She remembered how her dad had gotten into the account and tried to change her password, but instead ended up changing my user name on my account. Ha ha.....she is getting close. That stinker is smarter then she leads on.
Well December was great, lots and lots of snow for the holiday. We did all the great Christmas things. We went and saw the lights at festival of lights. We made lots of Christmas goodies. We took the girls on the polar express again this Christmas. The polar express is a train called the Heber creeper (a train that takes scenic trips through Provo canyon.) During Christmas time, the train is calle the polar express. We dress the girls in jamies and robes and enter the train, they read the book polar express and elves serve us hot co CO and Mrs. clause's Famous cookies. When we reach the north pole, Santa enters the train and speaks with each child, then he gives them all a bell. The way back, we let the girls open the first gift of Christmas and we sing carols all the way back to the train station. It is very fun and magical for all of us.
what was also neat about this season is the girls dance company performed the polar express. Maddie's Creative class where bunnies and Nicole's class performed two dances, an elf jazz dance and a ballet performance. It was so much fun. Maddie kept making up her own ending during the performances ***What a star she was*** Maddie's Picture had a lot of fuss, It really did turn out beautiful.
We ended our Christmas vacation with sledding and strep throat. It was hard for me to get interested in work right away again.
