Back on Track

Ethan and Riley started back to preschool today. I found myself saying "I can't wait til they go back to school" about 2 weeks into winter break. They were both very excited and ended up both sleeping in Ethan's bed last night. They woke up all anxious and ready to go. We were walking down the hall to their classrooms and one of the daycare workers poked her head in and said Happy Birthday to Mrs. Parker (aka Ms. Pahkah), Riley's teacher. She didn't put her birthday on the calendar so I had no clue. I asked her if I heard correctly and why she didn't put it on there and she said that she didn't want it on there. I told her she was sneaky. I told Cynthia after we were out of the classroom and we decided to get a cake and some cupcakes for the kids and come back and surprise her. Cynthia picked them up and we went back to school early, asked that they come in early from the playground and had all the kids sing her Happy Birthday. I think she was pleasantly surprised. She's a very shy person so I understand her not wanting to be the center of attention, but she makes it a point to make the kids feel special on their birthday, she deserved the same.
I signed up to do a challenge on a scrapbooking website to do a complete page layout every day for the month of January and I'm going to see if I can figure out how to upload them here on the blog, some of them are turning out really nice. It's really making me work quickly instead of taking 3 hours on a layout, I can whip one out in less than an hour. I'm doing some of them digitally which is fun and that's even faster and a lot less messy. I've gotten Cynthia hooked on it too, she's done her first page and is ambitious about doing many more and is even making some handmade gifts with all the stuff she's bought.
The National Championship Game is tonight, please cross your fingers that LSU wins or Peyton will be a bear for the next couple of days.
Lindsey is going to the doctor tomorrow to find out the sex of the baby. I'm excited to find out so I can get started on making some stuff for the little one.
Well, I need to get going and I should probably get some pictures uploaded so you can see some new ones of the kids.
Have a great week!!!