July 28, 2008

Well, my vacation is over. At 8:20 tonight I will have been home for 48 hours. It was a wonderful vacation. I blogged about the whole vacation on my vacation blog. It's located here: Destin 2008

It's been hard to be back and be away from the beach. But, it's also been good to be home where it's all familiar and I can be with my doggy. We all missed her very much. She missed us too. She was so happy when we came in the door on Saturday night.

I took over 500 pictures. At least that's what is on my camera. I deleted a whole bunch as I went, too in order to try and make it a little easier on myself as I go through them and fix flaws and get them filed. I'm anxious to share them with friends and family.

Yesterday we stayed around home mostly just doing house things. Today, the kids and I have been home all day. I've made some necessary phone calls. Got a vet appointment and dentist appointment made for the kids. Abby is going to the vet because she's losing her hearing. We don't know if it's old age or something else going on. Other than that she still seems healthy.

I've also been doing some more laundry today. Not as much as I'd planned, but that's ok. I needed a day where I didn't have to do much. I've only got two weeks left of my summer break. I've already gotten and email from my principal wanting us to do something before school starts. And, this morning I got a phone call from someone at the district office wanting me to create a pacing chart for first grade social studies.

I declined. I'm not sure why they called me. But, it was kind of nice to be asked. I just really need to take advantage of as much down time from work as possible. I'll probably go in sometime close to the end of this week and a couple times next week of my own accord, though.

In any case it's time to start thinking about school/work. I'm going to do some teacher shopping this week and weekend. I'm not going to do as much as I usually do, though. I still have some things left from last year that I can use.

Tonight, Michaela has gymnastics and I need to pay for August and see if I can figure out if she's going to do two nights a week this fall or what. I also need to try and figure out if I'm going to start school myself or wait until January. I need to get to started soon, though.