I think the compassionate factor that comes standard in women skipped me. Actually, I know it did. And I expect too much of my children. A part of me wishes that I could experience a day in their brain. See how their thought processes work. So that when one of them comes up to them and just randomly smacks the other, I really do know what they were thinking. Jackson woke up one night screaming. My first instinct? Call me sleep nazi. Again, girl side of brain prevailed.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009. And the School Year Begins. I know it has been a LONG time since I posted, but needless to say, things have been somewhat crazy lately. Last Wednesday, I started my first year teaching at Fredrick Douglass Academy VII in Brownsville Brooklyn. I am teaching 10 th. I am teaching 4 classes, the class size ranging in from 25-31. My school is extremely well organized, and i find the administration. Come to class, prepared and eager.

Monday, January 19, 2015. The last half year of our lives. We finished off the summer in Utah camping and relaxing in the beautiful desert heat. I hiked the Y 26 times and took tennis lessons through Provo Rec.

Sunday, August 2, 2015. Jayce and I have talked about doing a Harry Potter party for a while and at the beginning of the summer we decided this would be the year! By Harry Potter party, I mean we actually had a birthday party for Harry on his actual birthday.

Thursday, May 28, 2015. Deedee and Cedric a few weeks home. Grandpa and Cedric a few weeks old. jk! She got lots of fun presents! Tuesday, January 20, 2015. We are trying to teach Ian how to be reverent. So we started playing the Reverence game for FHE and he is learning and having fun! Sunbeam song by Kahlan and Ian.

Piping at waist and bias tape hemline. It was great to have my mom in town. The kids enjoyed her and Danny and I were able to get rock climbing in TWICE and my mom, Sydney and I got to catch a movie.