Labor Day Weekend

This was a big weekend for our family. It has been 8 years this weekend that Summers and I have made a home together. I am so glad that we are still together and have a family. On Friday evening we all just relaxed, it seemed to be an especially taxing week for us all. Zander had his first full week of school. He is adjusting well and learning alot.
This is a very stressful time of the year for me. I found out that my classes had been dropped while I was away in Chapel Hill last week. I have spent every free minute this week dealing with that and at this point, I am still not in. The classes are a requirement for my job so this is very frustrating. It is also the time of the year that all of the centers in the county apply and our chosen for our programs. I have 4 centers that I am totally resposible for over the next 9 months. There are over seventy classrooms. We are in the process of doing Environmental Rating Scales on all of these classes. It is a very tedious process. I am also doing alot of night training. I have recently become a Be Active Kids Trainer. I am also doing training on Conscious Discipline. It is a social emotional discipline program that teaches you to resond instead of react and teaches children self discipline.
On Saturday, Vicki came and very graciously helped me with my new computer and router. The Time Warner cable guy messed up some settings and nothing was working. Being the wonderful programmer that she is, she had no trouble figuring out the problem and in no time it was working. I know this is silly, but I was just talking on the phone and on the internet at the same time. I have never been able to do that. And to top that off, I was sitting on the couch. I love technology. I may never get off of the couch.
Vicki brought Rosie and Riley with her and they played with Zander while we worked. He had a difficult time sharing his toys. I got to thinking about it and the only time in his life that another child had been to our house was over a year ago when myh sister and her children were visiting at Christmas. We don't have anyone that we hang out with except for Vicki and Alana and we just realized that we never have visitors at the house. We have to fix that. Zander needs to have play dates. We invited Rosie and Riley to come back and spend the night. Rosie was very excitied, but Riley wanted no part of it. She came back in the evening and they had alot of fun. Rosie didn't sleep well being in an unfamiliar place.
On Sunday, we went to Moms' for lunch and then Zander spent the night. He had a great time. Summers and I went to Evan Almighy and went to dinner at Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse. We felt so guilty being there without Zander. It is his favorite place in the world and on top of that we got his favorite Chef. It was a fun night.
Today, we went to the park to play and we are getting ready to go to dinner with Mom, Dad, Steve, Tracy and Zach. It will be good to see them. I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday weekend as well.