Whoops!

It's been awhile. Here are the past 4 months in a nutshell...

Play wifey... clean, craft, cook dinner, sleep, repeat.... UNTIL

I got a job! Now I barely clean, never craft, sometimes cook, try to sleep...

I teach fifth grade now which is a huge change from teaching the little first graders! I love how they can work for ever fairly quiet and are still very cute and little! My first few weeks I was imtimidated by the older students, some of them are WAY taller than me... I thought they would be all serious and no fun but it turns out they are quiet a bunch of goofballs!

The bummer about teaching again is trying to get enough energy to do, well... anything really. I am always so tired in the evenings and can't seem to find time to do what I love on the weekends. because fifth grade is so different I basically have to start from scratch as far as lesson plans go... which takes hours upon hours of looking on the Internet for good lessons.

Anyway, I started going to some of the spouse events and met a few girls over the summer... I will have to admit that I was about to go INSANE with my clean, craft, cook dinner, repeat schedule... I needed adult contact and around July I finally gave in and went to a book club where we basically sat around and talked about everything BUT the book. It was a much needed girl time... then, I decided "OOO I know! I'll host a craft night for all the girls!" Well. Boy. Did. That. Ever. BACKFIRE! For some reason or other everyone who RSVP'd yes to the craft night (and even bought supplies) ended up not being able to come! And so lucky me was stuck hosting two of the STRANGEST women I have ever met. I would go in to more detail but I really don't want to relive that evening... so basically I am scarred for ever going to or hosting another spouse night IN MY LIFE!

Thank God I got a job and have my own little life on the side. I couldn't keep doing the stay at home wife thing for long... maybe someday... when I have kids and need to stay home for them.

Married life in Fayetteville is going well. It's not easy, like everyone warned me. But, I think our arguments are funny and healthy... after the fact of course. Like on Friday for instance. Daniel was STARVING and we had been out at one of my co-workers happy hours. If you have a man like mine, that means you know when the grinch comes out to play... man. So it was late and he wanted something quick and cheap... So I said how about Little Ceasars... he said OK and we went to where I thought there was one. Once we arrived to the place where there definitely was not one i thought "Oh.My. God... I'm screwed", I think I saw a monster emerge. He wanted Taco Bell, and the light took too long so he wanted to eat at this Cook Out place, then the line was long and he then wanted nothing he just wanted to go home so I basically drove into every restaurant for him to yell he didn't want to eat there... UGH! Such a butt... It ended in me peeling out of the last place and not talking to him afterwards until the next morning. Horrible way to end a fun evening at the time... hysterical story to tell down the road!

I could totally tell that story better but I am in no mood to edit today.

Daniel leaves in 3 months for Afghanistan... not too concerned about it for now. I'll have to check back in when the time is closer and see how I feel then.