I am so behind!

I don't think I've written since we moved to Laurie's house. Everything is so insane.

We're still working on buying a house so we're still living with Laurie and Jeff and Ella and Jilli and Roscoe and Lucy and Cheetara and Jack and Charlie. It's a full house for real. Everyone is on top of everyone else. We are so grateful for the place to stay and hopefully we'll be gone real soon.

My work opened a new department that provides therapy for children in the foster care system. They asked me to join and I am so excited about it. It is a truly amazing opportunity and work that I really, really love and care about. The only downside has been all the training. I had to be in training all day for an entire week. It was sooo hard on poor little Ruby. Then I had to do a ton of online training. But! I'm done! I should be able to start working next week. My supervisor has asked me to take 7 clients. Woo hoo! It's still contract so I'll still be working part-time.

School started back up but you wouldn't know it. I've barely looked at any of it. Ugh. Ruby's sleep is a mess because of all the craziness so I can't depend on that time to work. So I'm working when I can but there's just too much with two jobs and grad school in the pockets I can grab. I'm going to have to figure something out.

We've done Maggie's school here and there. It's too crazy to try and really dig in. So we're doing lots of reading. I read to the girls, Maggie reads to me, and we listen to audiobooks and podcasts in the car. Not perfect but. . . eh.

I went ahead and signed Maggie up for all of her classes I want her to take. It was quite odd but all of her classes just ended in May/June-ish. Her karate and swimming weren't offered over the summer and her piano teacher moved away to start college. So we took the whole summer off because I didn't want to have to drive 40 minutes to go to classes by where we would be living in the fall and I didn't want her to have classes for just the summer then change again.

She started karate. We're going 3 days a week. It is so cute. She got her first tape stripe on her birthday which was very exciting. Three stripes and you can test for the next belt up. She does quite well in karate. She keeps up well, asks questions, looks at the other kids. All good things. 

We started back in swimming. Ruby's taking classes too! It's so cute. This time Ella and Maggie are in the same class. Poor Miss Alex! But they are sweet little fishies.

Ruby was so cute in her little bathing suit. And she loved swimming around with Mommy. We had so much fun.