Originally Posted by Elibellamiah (Post 6253001)

Our offer was accepted on the house. It was kind of crazy trying to deal with all the paperwork over the phone while camping. I'm kind of excited and kind of sad. Also, overwhelmed at the thought of packing and moving everything. I wish our current house would have worked for us, I'm going to miss my backyard.

Originally Posted by Close2MyHeart (Post 6252989)

Love the idea of the homestead! That sounds amazing.

And I love the outside couch... I had a covered porch at the last house I was in and had something similar. I loved it!

New for me ... I'm on vacation this up coming week!! Hubby and I are taking my bonus kids on vacation. My bio kids are at their dad's in PA, so we will do a vacation with them at the end of July.

I applied for a new position at work... it's looking good for me to get it, but I got a call from my current boss and he wants to know what it'll take to keep me in my position now. Sooo... we'll see what happens with that.

We had 2 girls graduate from high school last weekend!! So excited to see where they are headed. Also, it's weird that 3 out of 5 of my bio kids are now graduated from high school. I'm not old enough for that, am I?!

My daughter came out as pan to the whole family recently. I've been surprised at the family's positivity... I expected more shunning. They were harder on me in my divorce!! I'm glad they are being positive to her.

Not much else is new.

Originally Posted by Sparrow (Post 6253033)

I'm wrapping up my first 7 months as an educational assistant (you call it para professionals) after going to school to be one for a year.



I love it, this is what I was born to do. I provide behaviour support



One of the kids I work with (I'm going super neutral here) doesn't have a diagnoses. They doesn't like to be in class, they're calmly oppositional. They're not explosive, they just doesn't listen, don't follow rules. They will just leave. When they go to the sensory room they won't leave. I've been pushed a couple of times (doesn't hurt me or bug me). The principal says in her whole career she hasn't had a more difficult child (and we have some kids in the school who are HARD).



This last month he's started to listen, respect break timers. He doesn't just walk into places he ASKS (he used to burst into classes, library, gym when he wasn't supposed to be there). People are noticing and I'm proud of him.



I made a jar, called it the kindness jar. It has a bunch of little slips on it with positive affirmations. We walk around when he needs a walk and asks people if they want one. They reactions have been so positive and he loves bringing people joy. It is his favourite when staff says "can I keep this?"



I'm not sure if I get to go back to this school in September, but I hope I do.



The staff has a sunshine committee, its a bit different since covid effects some stuff, but someone will use their prep time to bring other staff cookies and a tea or coffee. I thought it would be cool to have a sunshine kids committee, where they also do random acts of kindness.

Originally Posted by Sparrow (Post 6253033)

I'm wrapping up my first 7 months as an educational assistant (you call it para professionals) after going to school to be one for a year.

I love it, this is what I was born to do. I provide behaviour support

One of the kids I work with (I'm going super neutral here) doesn't have a diagnoses. They doesn't like to be in class, they're calmly oppositional. They're not explosive, they just doesn't listen, don't follow rules. They will just leave. When they go to the sensory room they won't leave. I've been pushed a couple of times (doesn't hurt me or bug me). The principal says in her whole career she hasn't had a more difficult child (and we have some kids in the school who are HARD).

This last month he's started to listen, respect break timers. He doesn't just walk into places he ASKS (he used to burst into classes, library, gym when he wasn't supposed to be there). People are noticing and I'm proud of him.

I made a jar, called it the kindness jar. It has a bunch of little slips on it with positive affirmations. We walk around when he needs a walk and asks people if they want one. They reactions have been so positive and he loves bringing people joy. It is his favourite when staff says "can I keep this?"

I'm not sure if I get to go back to this school in September, but I hope I do.

The staff has a sunshine committee, its a bit different since covid effects some stuff, but someone will use their prep time to bring other staff cookies and a tea or coffee. I thought it would be cool to have a sunshine kids committee, where they also do random acts of kindness.

Originally Posted by Elibellamiah (Post 6253001)

Our offer was accepted on the house. It was kind of crazy trying to deal with all the paperwork over the phone while camping. I'm kind of excited and kind of sad. Also, overwhelmed at the thought of packing and moving everything. I wish our current house would have worked for us, I'm going to miss my backyard.

Originally Posted by passthemanna (Post 6253096)

We've been adopted by a feral kitten. Nugget thinks living in our house beats living under a pallet with old insulation in a dusty open barn. We caught her in a trap and brought her in to keep the ants out of her food while she waited for her spay appointment. Turns out she's pretty sweet.. Wish us luck trapping & spaying the rest of the family

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Originally Posted by tempus vernum (Post 6253030)

I’m so happy your family didn’t shun her :heart :heart

Originally Posted by Close2MyHeart (Post 6253507)

I got a promotion and a raise today! :rockon

Originally Posted by Close2MyHeart (Post 6253507)

I got a promotion and a raise today! :rockon

Originally Posted by ECingMama (Post 6253538)

Our puppy had surgery yesterday. I made her homemade bone broth for her recovery. She' drank the whole bowl. She's a good patient. :)

I'm going to read all day, so I can sit right next to her. If I'm here, she doesn't need the cone of shame. Win, win!

Originally Posted by tempus vernum (Post 6253557)

:congrats :woohoo but wait. Is it the new job or the current job — don’t leave us hanging :giggle

Originally Posted by heartofjoy (Post 6253654)

My cousin and his kids ages 5 and 8 are visiting for 6 days. It's day 2 and I'm already exhausted! I've gotten spoiled with older kids.

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Originally Posted by heartofjoy (Post 6253654)

My cousin and his kids ages 5 and 8 are visiting for 6 days. It's day 2 and I'm already exhausted! I've gotten spoiled with older kids.

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Originally Posted by knitlove (Post 6253779)

I found out Friday I am teaching a 'art and art history' class on Wendsday at our coop that I didn't think I was.

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Originally Posted by Vicki_T (Post 6253784)

That sounds like an interesting subject! Were you hoping to be able to teach the class?

Originally Posted by knitlove (Post 6253789)

Maybe, I don't know. We had a teacher leave and on the last day of classes, the president of the coop offered me first right of refusal on taking over any of her classes. I said definitely the drawing and Highschool art that are on Monday. I said I could do this art history one, and that I would love to be able to do the watercolor class but that I can't make the time work because of the other classes I am teaching, at a different school. We haven't attended the second day before, I have neaver been to the location. But teaching on that day would make it much more financially pocoble to for us to attend in the future.

The communication has just not been perfectly clear partly because the lady who is the president of the coop board and is arranging things lost her dad a week after classes ended so she hasn't been on top of communications, and I wasn't going to bug her.


I think it will be good - but the class was proposed as a talk and craft class and I am going to be turning it into, we talk about art movements/ styles and make our own art in reponce to it. Because I don't do crafts where I tell kids exsactly what they need to do. I need to figer out what mediums I want to use in this class. And how much of hauling things back and forth I want to deal with.

I think I will use many of the plans for this class in the younger classes I am teaching at the privet school.

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Originally Posted by knitlove (Post 6253789)

Maybe, I don't know. We had a teacher leave and on the last day of classes, the president of the coop offered me first right of refusal on taking over any of her classes. I said definitely the drawing and Highschool art that are on Monday. I said I could do this art history one, and that I would love to be able to do the watercolor class but that I can't make the time work because of the other classes I am teaching, at a different school. We haven't attended the second day before, I have neaver been to the location. But teaching on that day would make it much more financially pocoble to for us to attend in the future.

The communication has just not been perfectly clear partly because the lady who is the president of the coop board and is arranging things lost her dad a week after classes ended so she hasn't been on top of communications, and I wasn't going to bug her.


I think it will be good - but the class was proposed as a talk and craft class and I am going to be turning it into, we talk about art movements/ styles and make our own art in reponce to it. Because I don't do crafts where I tell kids exsactly what they need to do. I need to figer out what mediums I want to use in this class. And how much of hauling things back and forth I want to deal with.

I think I will use many of the plans for this class in the younger classes I am teaching at the privet school.

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Originally Posted by knitlove (Post 6253810)

I am finding a lot of the books, even things pulished in the last 5 years, disappointingly European focused. It is ideotic to talk about how Monet and Van Gogh were influenced my japanese prints but neaver talk about the artists that were creating them in Japan.

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Originally Posted by heartofjoy (Post 6253972)

We just bought a used hot tub. Well, we put a deposit on it and will pay when we actually pick it up. Gotta figure out getting it home.

I'm so excited.

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Originally Posted by twoplustwo (Post 6254026)

Our friends want us to become tandem bike riders and loaned us one of their 2 tandem bikes and we rode it for the first time today (well any distance we did around our hood the day we got it from them). We did 15 miles this am and it was so much fun. But its not really in the budget to buy one but I want one anyway. :shifty