I Have Written My First Book!

This week was pretty awesome. The weather has been just right! Warm enough to enjoy lots of swimming but not so hot that Steven and I felt like we were melting in our home. Also all week been looking forward to  the 3 day weekend (thank you Labor Day!).

So Monday I had my first YW (Young Women) Presidency meeting. It was interesting being on the other end. It was so much nicer being the YW who just went and sometimes helped plan activities. Now I get to plan a short lesson for our activity this Wednesday and do my best to make sure all my girls are feeling included and loved.

Tuesday I got to hang out with my high school friend, Bill. He's been studying in San Diego and his absence has been missed. We did one of our favorite things, biking to the mall via the BPA trail. It was a very long bike ride full of hills, but it was well worth the shopping at Claire's, BBQ Pork stick and Hom Bow, sushi and Menchi's frozen yogurt. 13 miles in all in a total of 80 minutes.

The work week thankfully went by really well. I was only stressed one day and that was Friday morning. I was being the Preschool 1 Assistant teacher for the day and I didn't know the lead teach switched with another co-worker meaning she was coming in 45 minutes later. That had me loosing my head slightly because the boys (all 8 of the 11 kids I had) were being incredibly rambunctious. I tried giving them an activity to do so I could focus on diapers, but they could not entertain themselves for 5 minutes. So I scratched diapers in favor of saving the room and began to bribe them with candy if they participated in dancing and story time. That worked for barely one story. Luckily by then another co-worker came in and began diapers and by the time the lead teacher got there I had finished the one story.

Thankfully after that, they all got real good because someone they knew much better than me was now there. They even slept really good! Only 5 woke up by 2:30 and the rest we had to just go wake up since snack was on it's way soon.

Then that night I was able to have Emily, Ann and JJ come over for some swimming and games. Unfortunately my sinuses decided to be stuffed up so swimming wasn't as fun as I would have liked it to be, but I hung out until I got too cold just standing in the water. Later Ann whooped us at Nerts and Egyptian Rat Screw.

Saturday was our ward picnic at Mar Vista park. I only went for some of it (like an hour) before going to Seattle to meet up with more high school friends. I also had Apollo tag along for the ride. He did incredibly good for his second trip out of the house for more than 5 hours. Plus I was surprised how much of a show stopper he was. Some people wanted to take pictures and were amazed by this cat in a front pack and leash. I suppose it's not every day you see someone out and about with their cat, but it felt like people were seeing a cat for the first time. But why am I complaining? I loved the attention!

Me and my friends walked around Pike Place for a little bit before going back to the Mall (WestField?) to grab a bite to eat from the food court. I ended up being the first person outside with their food since Apollo began to smell stinky making me worried he pooped in his bag. Actually there's a funny story about that. I was in Godiva getting my free truffle for the month when I noticed the smell. I was already at the check out stand trying to fish for my Godiva card as fast as I could since I wasn't the only person in line and didn't want to offend anyone by the smell I was smelling. Then the cashier says,"Something smell..." (oh dear), "good!" I of course am like, really? He looks back at me and says, "I think it's you," and smiles. I'm sure my face was saying what I was thinking, are you serious or are you being impeccable polite?  He then says it smells floral like. I smile and just shake my head responding finally, "That's interesting. Wouldn't know how that could be." Finally the card was swiped and I had my things and was fleeing from the store hoping to get outside before truly being discovered.

Luckily he hadn't made a mess in his bag. But it was nice to take him out of the bag and let him wander in the garden box thing attached to the bench I found. Soon everyone else joined me and we enjoyed chatting for a while before all of us needing to go home. I am glad to still have friends from high school in which I can enjoy their company ever so often together.

So after getting home last night, I was able to take this idea I figured out from work this week and make it into a children's book. I continually find frustrations while working with the babies, especially since they don't understand basic concepts like, that hurts them when you hit, scratch, bite, poke them (just to name a few).  Plus I wanted to write a simple story that hopefully with be engaging and somewhat humoring to the parents/teachers who may currently be experiencing the same frustrations. Now the kicker is, if you want more details about what I've written, well you should email me asking for a description because I am guarding this story since it could quite possibly be one I could publish :D I now just need to create the illustrations (which will be a chore of it's own since I will have to recreate the same 3 characters 16+ times with environment and facial expressions to convey the emotion and humor I envision).

Anywho, getting ready to break the fast! Hope everyone is doing well!!

<3