Update

It's been a while since I do our usual update. There's really not much to say, since everything is pretty much the same. Aaron is busy with school, taking 4 classes right now trying to finish with his associates this summer. I think this is the one semester where he's been the busiest. He's gone 3 times a week from leaving to work in the morning and not coming home til 10pm, and then he has a class on Saturday mornings. Having a new job has made this semester so much easier, working the normal 8 hour days is so much more predictable and healthy. There would be times when he didn't even come home to sleep, it was ridiculous! With this new job he's been able to take 4 classes and get good grades, not that he didn't before. He is doing awesome in school and I am so proud of him.

I am training for a marathon. You can read about that here. I just re-did our living room last week with new paint and carpet. Aaron's been busy so he only helped with moving the furniture, which was more than enough. I'm gald I did not have to move that piano! My sister Nathalie and her boyfriend Don-Hee helped me painting. I don't know what I would have done without them! and of course we paid someone to do our carpet, I did not do that myself. Next project in my list, I have many projects, the office that is more like a dump ground right now. UGH! I can feel the stress levels going up, so I'll move to another subject.

The girls. Naomi is in school, thriving everyday. She is figuring out friendship and all the drama that comes with it. I'm in school with her once a week and get to see the little conflicts she goes through, from rejecting other classmates to being rejected, I think it might be even harder on me. I have to remind myself that they are just kids. I can call her out when she is being rude or mean to someone else, but I can't really do much when she is on the other end. The other day for example, one of the moms told me Naomi and her little girl had had a conflict that day and Naomi had made the other little girl cry telling her that she did not want to be her friend anymore. I talked to her on the way home and asked to apologize the next day and try to have a better day the next day. The next morning we walked in the classroom, I had forgotten about our little conversation, but she remembered. I was so happy to see her run to her little friend as soon as she saw. She apologized for being mean and gave her a big kiss and a hug. She is a sweet little girl that little girl of mine.

Jocie. Oh my Jocie! She is definetly the sweetest thing I've ever met. She is going through a phase where she wants to sleep in our bed. Since Aaron and I have a different bed time than the girls, we have allowed her to fall asleep in our bed and then we transfer her to her bed after she has fallen asleep before going to bed ourselves. I often wake up with her wraped around my neck in the morning because she woke up during the night and came to our bed without me even noticing, which is a bit scary, to be completely knock out not to notice your own kid climbing into bed next to you, I blame the marathon training. Jocie is definetly fallen into the usual little sister protocol where she gets to see her big sister doing all the fun stuff that she does not get to do yet. She wants to go to school, I have a hard time leaving the classroom every day because she wants to stay too. She gets to sit by the sidelines during big sister's dance classe wishing she could join her. Soon she will be old enough to do so!

We are starting to enjoy the outdoors more everyday, from swinging in our hammocks and playing in the sand, to digging out worms and finding insects. A couple of days ago I got my first dandelion so far this year from thr girls. Welcome spring! Kind of.  Life is sweet.