Still Blue

I haven't managed to convert my images on disc to a flash drive yet, so while you're waiting I figured it should be time for a new update on the family.

I am working again. I am substitute teaching for Emma's elementary school. Last week I was really busy filling in where needed, I did have an actual assignment, but during part of the day I was asked to float from different grade levels to help the teachers catch up on last minute testing before the end of the semester. This week I will be in a first grade class, the same class all week. I don't know how well I will handle the little ones, but I am sure they will teach me something.

Miles and Taylor wrap up their basketball season this week. I hope I can attend their last game. The boys will have a break from sports before track season begins. They are still enjoying their classes and learning their musical instruments. I can hardly believe we are half way through the school year. We are looking forward to eighth grade already. Only 59 days before I am the mother of "official" teenagers. I think this is more difficult for me to believe than the boys entering eighth grade.

We are attending a new local church, one which seems to fit the whole family a little better, including Alice. The church as a deaf ministry with really great people. It is nice to see Alice meet new people from the area and enjoy learning the word of God.

That's about it for now, exciting I know . . . I still miss Colorado. It is a little strange to walk around in t-shirt and shorts in the middle of January. I am looking forward to the spring, I guess there is something in me which longs for the feel of fresh tilled earth beneath my fingernails. Only this year it will come a little quicker than the last two years.