If you recall from my last post we moved in December and I am not ashamed to say I still have more boxes in the garage than I thought I would at this point BUT it is fun finding things I forgot I had! I may or may not have mentioned a small book hoarding issue Aaron and I have and have been working on. One way we have been trying to work on it is he has a nook and I have my iPad and iPhone with nook and kindle apps. And it has helped, I even started getting my magazines on my nook app and LOVE it, I get to keep them all AND not have to figure out where I will store them Anyway the only … Read entire article »

I have been waiting to go since last year when I went to Chicago and found out that it would be in New York I wanted to go even more. I have not been to New York since I was 15 which is well before 9/11 and I have been dying to get back. Well Aaron said to get it all done….I had a friend holding a ticket for me. I am sad I will not meet her but excited to have her ticket! I paid for it last night, then I purchased plane tickets (just realized I have to make sure Aaron is off while I am gone) and another friend had reserved a room for herself, another friend and I ~ so I am all set! I cannot … Read entire article »

So for Easter from Aaron’s parents Little Princess and Little man got numbers and letters flash cards with their Dr. Suess characters on them and so I have been using them with them. Little Princess can now count to ten, identify all her numbers 1 -9 and sometimes 10, some of her letters and so much more. I cannot believe how fast she is picking them up as well as some crazy new words ~ she can identify all of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse characters, almost all of the Disney princess’ and most of the cars characters. It is as if she is learning soooo much. Apparently I have not hit on Little Man’s learning style yet as he is not learning as quickly as she is but that is … Read entire article »

Most of you know we have had an exchange student for this school year. Let’s just say that Aaron and I have learned A LOT about Korea and Korean teenagers, as well as exchange students but very little about this exchange student specifically. So here is a list of some mistakes we made/things we will do differently next time. (What we will do next time is first and why or better known as the mistakes we made is second.) Allow NO contact with anyone from the students home country for at least 3 months. Within 2 days of being in our house we took our student to church where she promptly met 3 Korean couples ~ none with children her age ~ and then refused to get close to anyone … Read entire article »