I started this last week but never had a chance to finish it. I figured I would finish it and post it anyway....
It's been a rough week. For the first time in a long time, I am seriously considering going back to work full time and either I am paying attention better or the children have been doing some really cool stuff which is showing me how much I will miss if I am gone. I have taken more hours since Josh got laid off and will be gone every afternoon when Max gets home from school, and that is really hard. I miss him already. He is reading everything he can get his hands on now, which is so much fun to watch. He is doing some really neat stuff in school, too. Yesterday, he brought home a m
ap that he made in school of his neighborhood. It included a p
icture that he drew of the inside of our house. He showed me and Lauren and him in the basement. Lauren was vacuuming up the water that had leaked in during the flood and Max and I were saying "uhoh." Meanwhile, Josh was drawn in the attic, emptying mousetraps. I have no idea what his teacher must think of us. :)
Lauren never fails to make me laugh, when she isn't making me pull my hair out. She alternates between being sweet and fun and demanding and rude, and it can be very frustrating, but the good stuff is so good that it often makes up for the bad. She is so much her own person and continues to have her own style. I love the stuff she does at school and the crafts she does at home. She continues to love art and carries the case of art supplies that Grampa Rich got her for Christmas everywhere she goes. She has started to enjoy board games, too, rather than just dumping them all over the floor. She and I have been doing a lot of gardening together. I promised her we would plant blueberry bushes this year, because she loves blueberries. She is enjoying her speech class, too, and hopefully we will be able to understand her better soon. It has to be so frustrating when you can't get people to understand what you are saying.
James is just amazing. He seems to find joy in everything, especially throwing balls and playing with cars. Finally a child who falls into a stereotype. ;) I am so happy that I have had the opportunity to spend the time with him that I missed with Max when I was working and with Lauren because I didn't have the bandwidth to pay attention. (Poor Lauren. She really has gotten the short end of the stick in life, and yet she is still such a happy child.)
It's been a rough week. For the first time in a long time, I am seriously considering going back to work full time and either I am paying attention better or the children have been doing some really cool stuff which is showing me how much I will miss if I am gone. I have taken more hours since Josh got laid off and will be gone every afternoon when Max gets home from school, and that is really hard. I miss him already. He is reading everything he can get his hands on now, which is so much fun to watch. He is doing some really neat stuff in school, too. Yesterday, he brought home a m
ap that he made in school of his neighborhood. It included a p
icture that he drew of the inside of our house. He showed me and Lauren and him in the basement. Lauren was vacuuming up the water that had leaked in during the flood and Max and I were saying "uhoh." Meanwhile, Josh was drawn in the attic, emptying mousetraps. I have no idea what his teacher must think of us. :) 
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