hi sonya!

back to school shopping!  i get so excited for back to school every year!!! :grin:

jake surgery is today (thanks for the thoughts, sonya) and i have frosh orientation on thursday.

i still haven't eliminated the idea of taking the kids to the baltimore aquarium this week.  i need to see how jake's feeling and then maybe we'll do that on friday. 

Good morning, April.

I've been meaning to post about this. Your questions were so helpful with the realtor.

He actually answered all of your questions/points without my even asking.

I loved him!

He called Saturday with an price to list at. It is $20K more than we thought we'd get and he thinks it is a good number. Fingers crossed! I think we are going to be listing this week (man, this makes me feel like puking).

 good morning

let's see ....

Jake is starting high school!!! (i know you hadn't heard that before  )

Caroline is starting pre-k at the elementary school (no more preschool building for her)

Mikey's going to preschool at the same time as Caroline goes to prek.

I'm going out with one of my bffs irl tonight who I haven't seen in like a year ...and I just found out she's pregnant!!!!!

Dan's birthday is Thursday ...

-- Edited by sappy on Monday 24th of August 2009 06:43:25 AM

sonya i'm so excited for you about your house! i hope you get fat stacks from it quickly and can settle in to your new place (commute free!!!!) very quickly.

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Good morning Sara!

Yay for all your exciting things! It will be so nice for you to just have Bennett.

And high school! Wow.

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i think bennett will even be sleeping when the kids are at school. (they go from 1-3:30) so i might have 2+ hours of uninterrupted alone time 4 afternoons a week.

 

 

sappy wrote:

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Sonya wrote:

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Good morning Sara!

Yay for all your exciting things! It will be so nice for you to just have Bennett.

And high school! Wow.

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i think bennett will even be sleeping when the kids are at school. (they go from 1-3:30) so i might have 2+ hours of uninterrupted alone time 4 afternoons a week.

 

 

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heaven!

 

Jenn!

Yay!

Crazy busy time? Good crew this year?

Sonya wrote:

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Jenn!

Yay!

Crazy busy time? Good crew this year?

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Sort of, too early to really know.  I had to hire a couple of back up candidates when some of my returners resigned over this summer.  My staff looks like this.  One returner who was my star last year who is too cool for school this year and might bite my shoe soon.  One returner who I barely re-hired who is suddenly rocking my socks off.  Love it.  One returner who I stole from another staff who was RA of the year and pretty much could do my job better than I do.  She is perfect.  I have one newbie who I hired when I thought she would be the only new person on a staff of returners.  So I purposefully chose a bitchy streak of a personaility to be able to handle all the know-it-alls.  Well, all my know it alls quit...so now I'm just stuck with a bitch.  Ah well.  Two newbies are super solid.  One newbie was pretty low in the back up pool but I took a chance.  She is super socially awkward, but tries really hard (too hard...which makes her more awkward...).  Verdict is out if she will make it the year.  Whew, that was long.  I'm getting too old for this RA training business.

 

Good morning!

Exciting this week...I start school on Wednesday night :fear

I can't believe it. I've been talking about this for YEARS, but we am finally doing it. Yikes.

George is on Day 3 of working nights, and we are slowly getting into a rhythm.

New week Danielle starts her new school, then Juliette the week after that.

Overall, we are nothing but excitement here!!