It's back to the grind

Grandma and Grandpa have left the building
Actually, they left the state, too.

So.. it's been a transition week here.

We went to the kids' parent-teacher-student confrence thing today. And.. no, they didn't fail me. Almost, but not quite.
As I was up at 1 am last night digging through everything it hit me... I don't need to find ALL the materials- only 1 thing from each subject.
***EUREKA!!!! welllll thennnnnnnn..... I'll skip the other 4 days 6 weeks of work.

not that I think my kids need to be taught to be lazy, but.. I am SO relieved with that discovery. Soooo- no, because I couldn't figure out the flap book thing-y with vague directions- no, they didn't fail.

And they're actually going to GO to school 1 day a week. I think it will be good - at least for a day or so- Sonia is longing for interaction with other kids and Joey would probably benefit from it. And they're thrilled that they get to use lunch boxes and eat lunch there, and it counts as a day of instruction... I think it will be a good thing for us.

And on other notes... The nanny/housekeeper will be moving on to a new family.
While it has been nice to have a clean-er house.. it's not financially feasible--no where near financially feasible- and---
The kids are not learning spanish as we expected
I "lost" my job due to lack of license and as of today the Board of Nursing has now lost 3 applications, so I'm taking it as a sign that it is not meant to be- none of it- my working, the nanny, etc. Larry and the kids will just have to learn to pick up after themselves. (I hear your laughter on that from here)

She doesn't know yet. It has fallen on Larry to be the tactful interperter due to his mastery of spanish, but being the non-confrontational soul that he is, he's avoided it and is leaving tomorrow for 2 weeks of away from phone/internet camp somewhere in Texas...
So.. I think it will be me and my spanish-english dictionary trying to tactfully tell her that her services are no longer needed here, but her last employer has a new job for her with a newborn..

I have some great pictures to share, but again.. the camera isn't here in easy reach and I'm being lazy. We found BUGS in our rice. real bugs flying in the bag with the rice. in all 3 bags that we had. That was one of the pictures - I'm debating if it's worth taking the rice back to the store and wondering if they'd do anything about replacing it and... do I really want another bag of brown rice that likely has bugs in it? I made white rice and picked at it making sure nothing looked like those mothy things or the worms that were in there.

So with that lovely visual, I'm signing off.....