Our field trip for today was an outing to the local movie theater to see The Simpsons for the second time. It was a milestone, however, being the first movie we have gone to where neither child needed to visit the restroom during the whole movie. We sat and watched THE WHOLE MOVIE!!! Woo-hoo! I’m really looking forward to Horton Hears a Who which is due out in March.
I did bring some crochet to work on, as I can only tolerate one showing of most kid-friendly movie without something else to do. 
I remember how summers used to stretch out into infinity – school would never start again. But that is because I was a child and bored, bored, bored. Now summers stretch into infinity again, but I have too much to do and too little time.
E and S participated in ABA training for a couple of weeks after summer school was over. The school district here trains the teachers in schools with autism programs on how to do Applied Behavioral Analysis with their students and they need kids to demo on. So, I volunteered to drive them back and forth so that they could be model students for a couple of hours a day. The boys really like the attention and the teachers are so nice and enthusiastic. It is a win-win situation. But now they are stuck with just me for the next two weeks until school starts again. We have an exciting field trip to AC Moore and Harris Teeter’s planned for this afternoon.
I’m starting to teach a new class on Thursday night – Organizational Psychology – so I’m trying to balance kid supervision with reading the material, planning my classes, and prepping my PowerPoint slides. I’m glad to add another class to my teaching list, but wish I had more free time to concentrate on prepping.
I’ve found some new dishcloth patterns and have some new sets up in my Esty store:
Today is my dh and my 9th anniversary! It is hard to believe that 9 years has gone by already. He picked out a Citizen watch that I gave to him and he let me choose this:
It is wonderful – grinds the beans, tamps the shot, pours the shot, dumps the grounds into an easy to empty cup. This one is much more deluxe than the Saeco I had for 4.5 years before this one – it has a bypass doser and it has an electronic clock with auto on and off. Very quiet too. 
I’ve been busy busy busy working on crocheted dishcloths for my etsy store:
The white dishcloths definitely don’t photograph well – the yarn is the same weight as the colored yarn, but when photographed with a flash, they look less substantial than they are. I’ve had a few requests for all-white cloths – even a couple of sets special-ordered – because you can bleach them. I just wish that they photographed better.
I’m going to work part-time for the school district here next year, so I’m off to get my TB test read!
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