The Synapsis: August 2014

Friday, August 29, 2014

Job

I realized when I was writing my post about what we did this summer that I forgot to write about my job. I guess I should write a little about it. It's kind of a long story. Let me sum up.

In the spring I started working one day a week, subbing for a dental assistant who was pregnant. She was working full time and wanted to have an extra day off. I did that for several months. I had let the boss know that I was really interested in working part time doing dental assisting and hoped that when the girl had her baby I could maybe work part time. He really didn't want to hire two part time assistants. Then there was a position that came up at the front desk for the hours I wanted. He asked me if I wanted to do it. I hesitated. I prefer assisting. I reluctantly decided to do it, and am still hoping that the girl who just had her baby might want to also come back part time. We shall see. Right now I do scheduling and billing and a bunch of other junk. The timing of everything wasn't the best. This job came open right as the summer started so I ended up working a lot more during the summer than I had planned. I had really wanted to be home more to do more fun stuff with my kids. I guess there are always trade-offs. It will be interesting to see how this evolves. I am still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. I can't decide if I want to go back to school. It's a big time and money commitment. Right now I'm trying to decide what I want to do.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

What We Did this Summer!

We did actually do a few things this summer besides living in a rental house and building a house. Life goes on right!? Here is some of the other stuff we did this summer.

While at a 7th grade physical we did a quick eye screening and found out that we needed to get Elise's eyes checked. Turned out that she really needed glasses. So we went and got her these. I think they look so cute on her!

And, to go with the glasses, Elise got braces. This was a very busy summer for Elise.

We went to Tuachan and saw The Wizard of Oz. It was SO cool! We all loved it. Too bad Elise didn't have her glasses yet!

We went to the Happy Factory a couple of times and helped stain the cars that they donate to children all over the world.

Adele got a new bike and learned to ride it in just a couple of hours.

And I worked and posed for pictures with dorky glasses.

A couple of other things:

Ian had a Mohawk (I will have to go look for pictures. You can kind of see it in the Tuachan picture).
Elise and Emilia went to girls camp twice.
Emilia got into Success Academy, decided to do it and had to drop her band class.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Happy Birthday to Kent

Happy birthday to this awesome guy! He wanted me to make him a strawberry cream cheese pie. I learned something: You can't really substitute margarine for shortening in pie crusts. There is too much moisture. While my crust was baking it was falling over. I was able to salvage it by putting it on a flat pan, but it became a tart instead of a pie. It still tasted pretty good. Ooops.

Love you dude.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

First Day of School

Don't these guys look so cute! We barely had time to get this pic taken before we had to rush the bigger kids out to the bus! This is a momentous day for me. This is the first time I have ever had my kids all start school on the same day and ALL go to school ALL day! I wasn't really sad. I won't lie. I had been working half days all summer and I worried about my kids being home alone so much. Emilia and Elise are big enough to babysit but there is always the issue of fighting, and the question of whether they are just hanging out in their rooms or paying attention to the kids. So having them all go to school was actually kind of a relief. Mornings are pretty crazy though. I have to be at work at 7:45. I get Emilia and Elise out the door with me and then Kent has to get Ian and Adele to the bus. I think we are adjusting to the the schedule now but some mornings we barely make it.