2 showings

We've had 2 showings on our LaGrange house!

+8

Nate invited 2 families of 4 over for dinner and games tonight. In our 900 square foot house. Thankfully, it's beautiful outside so maybe we can spend most of our time in the big back yard. 

Interesting Combination

The man next to me in traffic is driving a black BMW with a handicap license plate. He is wearing a coonskin cap, smoking a Sherlock Holmes style pipe and is blasting rap music. 

Longest week ever

Tuesday felt like Friday.  Every day since had just been harder. I need this weekend so badly. 

In good news, our LaGrange house had its first showing today!

Educated Voter

Just spent the last 30 minutes researching candidates for city council and mayor in preparation for early voting tomorrow.  

I don't want to

Teaching on Halloween was bad but I'm dreading trying to teach in the day after Halloween even more. This whole week would have been a holiday. 

Book Character Day

Madeline and Fancy Nancy

Curlers

Korra with her hair in curlers because she's going to be Fancy Nancy for Book Character Day tomorrow. The hair dye I ordered with 2 day shipping on Thursday arrived tonight, after she was already asleep. And when I sent Nate to Target this afternoon to look for some, they were already taking down all the Halloween stuff and putting up Christmas.  At least I tried. 

Name Tags

We wear name tags at church every Sunday. Today Korra wrote name tags for nearly every person who came to church. She also drew little portraits of each person below their name. I can't tell you how amazing it felt to see so many people proudly wearing and showing off their Korra name tags. I am so thankful for Korra and her kind heart and for this wonderful community of people who love us. 

Ready to Sell!

Nate and his parents worked hard all day yesterday and a good part of today on the LaGrange house.  The bathroom floor has been replaced and now the house is totally ready to sell!

CNN center

Today we took the 6th graders in a field trip to the CNN center. It was not fun. Not only did I have no interest in the location but my students didn't follow directions, complained, talked crap about each other, talked too loudly, and didn't listen to the tour guide. In general they were the absolute stereotype of middle school students and totally embarrassed me and my coteacher. So they weren't allowed to buy lunch in the food court and instead had to eat sack lunches from the school cafeteria outside on the sidewalk. They were not happy. 

No tears!!!

Korra didn't cry at all when I dropped her off this morning!

Half Day

Every Wednesday I teach both my classes at the same time (all 12 kids instead of my usual 6 at a time) for half the day and then I have professional development and planning the other half of the day. Teaching 12 at a time can be harder but there are definitely perks to this system. 

Termite treatment

The termite company is treating today. They say they don't have to pay for damages. Nate and his parents are going on Friday to begin replacing the floor. I am so ready for this to be done. 

Seperation Tears

Korra cries every morning when I drop her off in kindergarten. She cries when I drop her off at dance. She cries when she goes to childcare when we have small group. But then she's fine. How do I help her handle seperating?  Why is it so hard right now?

Termites?

The first thing we did when we got to the house was rip up the linoleum in the bathroom. The damage was way worse than we thought. We thought it was a small spot or two of torn linoleum from popped-up nails and a little bit of water damage underneath. Nope. Small white grubs crawling in little trenches/tunnels all over the floor. Fortunately we are bonded and the extermination company should repair it for us. Unfortunately, we can't put the house up for sale until it's repaired (we were actually hoping to have it up tomorrow). 

Even in the midst of that disappointment, we were so thankful for some of our LaGrange friends who kept Korra all day (playdate with her bf from Montessori). When we went to pick her up, these wonderful friends invited us to join them for dinner (homemade chilli) on their beautiful screened in porch. 

Home Repairs

Headed to LaGrange for the day to get the house ready to sell. Fingers crossed it goes smoothly and we get it all done today. 

College Registration

 Dreamed I was registering Korra for a couple of college courses because kindergarten wasn't challenging enough. 

Little Five Halloween Parade

We went straight from the zoo to another Halloween celebration with some friends from church. Korra was initially get disappointed she was not IN the parade, but once she started getting candy she was perfectly content to watch. 

More Boo at the Zoo Pictures

Boo at the Zoo

Korra is (unironically) a black cat named Snowflake. Waiting in the looooong members for Boo at the Zoo. Meeting up with our friends from Chatt Hills. 

MBMBAM

Seeing My Brother, My Brother and Me live!

Mail

Last night, our doorbell rang at 9:50pm with a package from the post office. At our current address we usually get mail/packages from USPS, UPS and FedEx between 7 and 10 pm.  On numerous occasions, we've gotten messages from all 3 delivery systems that our packages are undeliverable because our address doesn't exist (even when they've delivered to our address multiple times before).  It is incredibly frustrating.  Just one more reason we'd like to move (though probably not as high on the list as "drug lord neighbor" and "no dishwasher")

Pizza and TV

Tonight we ate frozen pizza and watched lots of tv. I didn't even grade any papers. It was exactly what we needed. 

Realtor

We met with a realtor in LaGrange tonight. She thinks the house is in good shape and that we could sell quickly for what we're asking!  On Sunday we'll be replacing linoleum in the bathroom and repainting a couple walls, but hopefully this stress and exhaustion will be worth it.