We had to bribe the kids with pretzels to get them to sit for this photo. Promptly after the photo was taken Maeve vomited all over her frog costume. It was pretty sweet. I guess that explains why she wouldn't smile for any photos.
Joel celebrated his 29th birthday again. We got to celebrate with him before the big day because he went back to California the night before his birthday. He got to celebrate the actual day by going to Disneyland for free. We are jealous. This photo was taken in December 2005. It is one of those photos that when our kids see it they are going to say, "What were you guys thinking!?" I thought it might give you a good laugh.
I haven't posted in awhile because we have been settling into a new routine. I got another job and after two weeks of doing both jobs I quit the cleaning business, hopefully for good! I was hired part time at the Douglas County Aids Project. I am working as a social worker doing case management for about 22 clients infected with HIV. I was hired on a grant position that goes through next July so we will be here until then. It has been very interesting work. I have learned a lot about AIDS in the last few weeks and am very glad that I don't participate in any of the high risk behaviors. It is good to be back doing case management, which is where I did my internship in college, before I worked in the school districts. It is a very small non-profit agency so that is fun and challenging. There are only 6 employees, I think only 3 are full-time. I work two days a week normally but this week I worked full time which was exhausting considering I was up most of the nights all week with Jude who has had the flu all week. Luckily I flew Joel in to provide child care (the airplane ticket was the exact same price as what I would have paid for five days of child care) so he took care of our sick baby all week during the day. Adelle got the bug last night and will be home from school tomorrow. Hopefully by the time Joel leaves Wednesday night everyone will be healthy again.
I've been a little preoccupied getting into a school routine with Adelle (not to mention getting use to waking up at 6:30am after being woken up 5 times during the night between my two babies) and looking for a better job than my current evening office cleaning job. I think I am getting pretty good at interviewing so hopefully something good comes up soon. I've only been offered one job and the pay was so low I wouldn't have brought anything home after child care costs. Why is it that social workers get paid so little?
But on to my post title. Susan from our old homeschool group (I miss you guys!) suggested this book called the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (I know titles are suppose to be underlines but I can't figure out how to do that??) Anyway it is about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII. I put it on hold at the library and after waiting all summer I finally got it. It was really interesting. Did you know that when the Islanders knew the Germans were coming they put their kids on a boat to England and didn't see them for 5 years?! Isn't that so sad! Worth reading and a pretty quick read.
