Promotion!

So last week was pretty awesome. That surprise I mentioned last week was my birthday! I'm half way to 48 now ^_^ This year I tried real hard to just keep quiet about it. I didn't want to make it a big deal because sometimes I feel it obligates people to give gifts. In all honesty I am 100% cool with a card or just saying happy birthday to me. But don't get me wrong, a gift is always appreciated!

My parents sent me a card that once you pulled the cat out you could hear kittens singing happy birthday to me. Apollo still isn't sure if he likes it or not...

That night I went to YW activities and made cupcakes with my beehives. It was fun decorating and I failed to take pictures of our creations, let alone the girl who used the excess red velvet batter to look like a zombie.

Once I got home Steven surprised me with flowers and Pad Thai for dinner. It was super yummy and the flowers were very pretty. Plus he said that we'd celebrate more once the weekend came.

Also all last week I've been pondering over a possible new position at work. The infant room was in need of a new teacher and all week I was filling in. My boss sat me down stating they were interviewing for the position but since I was the only other teacher there who was most familiar with the current babies, that if I was interested I could go in for the runnings. Once Friday rolled around I finally asked to go in for the runnings and took home all the necessary paper work to study up on.

Saturday Steven and I did some clothes shopping. He wanted to get some tanks and I got a new skirt and belt. The belt is probably my favorite because it now makes my wardrobe more versatile since it's a waist belt and not for keeping my pants up. Then that night we went to Jessica's house for some America's Next Top Model (ANTM), Pizza, and games. My other friend Jackie was able to join us too and whooped us hard on the Pokemon mini games.

Sunday, Emily and the Taylor's came over for some games since star wars was a no go. We shared Ascension with them, which is a Magic the Gather type of game. I also worked on making a mash up of two hymns. So far I have the chorus written. Now I just need to learn the other two songs and figure out how to blend them. Yes I'm being secretive because I do not want the online community to know of my brilliant plans until they are made and if it turns out amazing.

Now I know this post is made late, but another thing I began yesterday was trying to better keep the Sabbath holy. To some of you, you may think going online isn't bad, but for me I know it's a HUGE distraction and takes away from other wholesome things I could be doing to keep God in remembrance. Unfortunately my blog will take a small ding with that. I believe this to be a very good thing to do on Sunday, but alas, it is internet based and so I am going to try to start posting on Saturday. We will see how well I can shift my Sunday habit to Saturday and hopefully I won't leave to many of you waiting in anticipation for the next chapter of my life if I forget to post on Saturday.

Anywho, now back to what I mentioned earlier about bring home homework to study about the possible new position. Well I found out today that is is going out in the News Letter to all the parents that I am the new Infant teacher! I totally thought I'd have another week or two to prove myself against those they were possibly gonna interview. This is a huge amount of responsibility I've taken on and for now I believe I am still same pay, but that's cool considering I don't know if I am doing anything more exceptional than what I've already been doing. I would hope that in time if I am doing everything a lead teacher should be doing and going above and beyond that it'll reflect in my pay check. But for now, I'm super excited to be working with the babies! Daunting, yet rewarding ^_^

Take care! <3