I know I said I would quit blogging, and I don’t plan to blog regularly anymore.  But I heard from a few friends who don’t live nearby that they are going to miss getting updates about our lives.  So I will probably post monthly updates.  No attempts at wit or wisdom; just the facts.   I DO want to stay in touch with friends that live elsewhere (love you guys).  So here’s the latest news.

First of all, we survived summer school.  Whew, and praise the Lord!  It was pretty awful, to be honest - especially the second summer session.  Fox worked everyday from 6:30-10:30am, then drove an hour’s commute to a mid-day class, then either went back to work after class or stayed after class to work on homework.  It was a screenprinting class, so he couldn’t exactly do his homework at home.  Some days he never saw Ladybug at all, and I never felt more like a single parent than I did the past two months.  It was definitely the hardest stretch of his classes so far, for all of us (not the actual classwork, just the toll it took).  But it’s over now!  Yeehaw!  :)  And we are trying to resume normal life.  Ah, who am I kidding?   What’s normal?  Anyway, we have a three week break before his fall semester starts up and we are going to make the most of it.

Ladybug is now thirteen months old and cracking us up more everyday.  She walks everywhere, loves to play outside and get dirty, is getting really vocal with her babbling and adding more words all the time.  It is one of the most fun phases so far.  Unfortunately, she is also teething her first molars and I think it must be really painful; she has never had such a rough time before.  She has stopped sleeping again, and I think that has a lot to do with it.  So, I’m a pretty exhausted momma these days.  We pray for those molars to come in SOON!

In July I (along with Ladybug) traveled to Dallas to spend three days in teacher training for an early childhood music program called Musikgarten. This is the same program that Ladybug and I were part of this past spring.  Now I will be teaching a class for babies and one for toddlers, beginning in September.  I am very excited about it; it is an excellent curriculum that is developed by experts in child development as well as highly skilled musicians, and it focuses on the development of the whole child.  I hope I enjoy teaching it!  If anyone wants more info about my classes, here’s my business website.

That about covers things for now.  I’ll be back in September with another update…hopefully we’ll have two molars to report (and a lot more sleep!).