What to say?

I've been meaning to post something for several days now but with two kids who don't like to go to bed and a job that I usually still feel lost at, most nights I just don't have the energy or the brain cells to do anything. Right now I am working on about 5 hours of sleep after having a busy day at school. At least it was a short day. If you didn't know, I'm a high school biology teacher, but I'm pretty sure that most of you knew that all ready. It is definitely the most conflicting job that I have ever had. I'm exhausted, I'm energized, I'm not too bad, I'm a crap teacher, the kids are great, they are all little #%&*! I'm love being there but I also dream almost daily of the time off. I guess that I shouldn't complain too much; I am officially in my second year of teaching now and I'm not ready to give up yet. It is just hard to be with 140 needy teenagers and then come home to two needy children of my own. But they are cute, my kids and my students.
I think that Nathan and Josh may have finally fallen asleep but I don't dare go check yet. They are getting to be such good brothers to each other. Today they were fighting over a toy, clawing and screeching at each other, and then all of the sudden they started to laugh their heads off. And then they were marching around the house wearing some hats that they had found and playing music on a recorder and drum. Last Sunday they both ended up taking their naps with us. Joshie wouldn't sleep in his bed so after I left him in his room he snuck out and joined Richard in our bed. He went right to sleep. Nathan joined me on the couch where I was reading a book. We cuddled up together with a blanket, he had me read some of my book out loud and fell right to sleep. It has been a long time since he has fallen asleep on me like that.

This week in our lives

I was feeling bad about not having updated the blog for a while until I visited a few that I hadn't checked for a few weeks and it was nice to see that not everyone is as diligent at blogging as my dad.

I am back into the swing of things at work, so much so that I will send my first student of the semester to the dean's office for suspension, as soon as he comes back to school. He has been ditching ever since being very rude to the substitute last Tuesday. Other wise I am still enjoying teaching and I can now say that I am not a first year teacher. Of course I'm only a 2nd year teacher and I have a better idea now of how much I don't know now.

Nathan is back into school also. He enjoyed the winter break but had a hard time understanding why he had so much time off from school. He also missed his cousin Jillian as they didn't get much time together over the break. Nathan and Jill are really becoming best friends or something like it. They are currently planning their wedding for next year and plan to live somewhere that has snow but no rain. Nathan is also training to be a superhero. Tonight he got his cousin R.J. to fix him a cape and all day he has been jumping off of the furniture. When Richard got after him for it Nathan replied "I'm not jumping; I'm flying!"

Joshie has been growing up too fast also. His vocabulary is getting bigger each day although he still mostly makes do with "uuhun" with different intonations and emphasises. Joshua's biggest accomplishment recently is that he is now able to open doors. He will now longer be crouched on the floor of his bedroom, crying pitifully through the gap on the bottom of the door to be let out. Now he can open the door and run down the hallway before you can realise that he is out of bed. There goes my baby.

Joshua's Birthday Pictures

Here are some photos from Joshua's birthday. I know that it has been almost a month since we did these but I thought for those who couldn't be there they might like to see the fun we had.
Josh was a little scared of the sparkle candles and that distracted him from actually blowing out the normal candles.
He did really get into opening presents. He got several really cute toys, including a Radio Flyer rocket that he has been obsessed with every time that he sees it in the store.
We had a lot of family and it was very nice to be able to visit with everyone.