While Brian, Gwyn and I rang in the New Year in a rather boring manner…Gwyn in bed, me asleep on the couch with Brian watching TV…I hope that this new decade is anything but boring. With the ringing in of the New Year, I can’t help but think ahead and wonder what the next year will bring us and even the next 5 to 10 years. I’m sure that doesn’t surprise any of you that know me!
My first hope for 2010 is that it brings Brian a job! Maybe the subbing will help and Brian can have a job lined up for next school year with lots of subbing this semester! He had to jump through numerous, money spending hoops to get here so I’m hoping it brings only good things. Brian had to get a drug test, a physical, and a chest X-ray because he was exposed to TB once upon his working in the factory days! All clear and ready to sub so keep your fingers crossed for him!
I hope that Gwyn can get back into a great daycare this year. Gwyn was at an in-home daycare which is what I prefer and Tanya was just wonderful! But she could fill up again before we know for sure if we need her. I have been looking at preschools and am considering hiring a college student to run Gwyn to and from preschool then keep her after if Brian is working. So we will just have to wait and see what happens with Brian and preschools. Luckily I’m finding that we are getting Gwyn into preschool at an age prior to when it becomes competitive. She will still be in the 2 year old class since she has a November birthday! Most people apparently don’t think about preschool until their child is 3!
I hope that the New Year brings my family all they want and hope for. I hope that my Mom finds peace in her new adventures and I think that only good things can arise from these life changes for her! I hope that my Grandma builds her strength enough to go to rehab rather than a nursing home. I hope that Ashley, my sister-in-law, finds herself prospering in her new business of Real Estate and I have no doubt that with my mother-in-law as a mentor that she will flourish!
I am confident that my year will be another great year teaching and working for the Stallings. I truly am a very lucky person to have such great jobs that are flexible and supportive!
Now for an update on Gwyn! She got a kitchen and lots of kitchen accessories for Christmas. She loves to pretend she is cooking up something good and serves a lot of tea. She also got a lot of new books which she loves to read over and over again. When we are reading to her, she will just sit and look at the pictures for an hour! We also found some of Brian’s old books which she has enjoyed reading and looking through. We had to clean out her room of old toys to make way for the new toys. We are putting them away in the barn for now given the chance of a sibling one day for Gwyn. Granted that will be a while off in the future when I’ll probably be of “advanced maternal age” but we are keeping the toys none the less!
Gwyn is talking up a storm. It is fun to have actual conversations with her now. Like the other morning, Gwyn says “Turn on light, momma” and I turn on the light for Gwyn to say “thank you, momma”. Then last evening she was helping me give the dogs their fish oil pills in peanut butter which the dogs lick off her fingers. She said “Tess, you tickle Gwyn!” and was laughing the whole time. There is still a lot she says that we are trying to figure out exactly what she is saying but for the most part we can understand what she is saying. She is so much fun at this age and for the most part is a perfect little girl. We couldn’t ask for better but as Brian says after the first 2 1/2 months of colic, we earned this good little girl!
I leave you with some pictures as usual… or should I say that Brian will leave you with some pictures!
Finally we have Keegan, who decided when Gwyn was away at Gymnastics tonight, he would take advantage of an unoccupied Princess couch…
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