Recently

Not that much has been happening the past month. I have been working full time hrs the past two weeks and am very excited for the week to end so I can go back to normal work hours. My house is a mess but I have just been too exhausted to care. I really don't know how anyone can work full-time, take care of a toddler, cook dinner every night, and keep their house clean.

The weather has been teasing us with some nice weather and then returning to the gloomy overcast/raining/snowing days. Nathan really wants to go outside any time he can. Which has been very limited. Last week we spent  some time outside while Dave was working on the brakes for his Fedex van. Nathan would not stay inside knowing that dad was outside. It was a little cold, but Nathan didn't care he had a great time stomping through the mud puddles in his boots.

My primary class has actually been going pretty good the past few weeks. It really helps to have Dave sitting in my class. I spent about ten minutes at the beginning of class a few weeks ago and had the kids create their own rules for earning and losing the puff balls that fill their reward jar. Sometimes they are even better at pointing out someone breaking the rules then I am. It has been such a relief to figure out that they are highly motivated by the idea of earning something special.