New Job

Audie got a new job today! he had interviewed for the Assistant
manager's job at work a few days ago and we just found out that he got
it! that means a pay raise and more responsibility and hopefully less
working on Saturdays! I'm so proud of him and i'm so gla i have a
husband that loves his job enough to go out and work everyday, so that
i could go to school full time and not have to work. That has been
such a blessing, and while that means we have more student loans that
maybe we would if i had worked it has totally made my life easier!

Also i'm blogging right now from babysitting because my charge H. is
napping. She's 3 and hardly ever naps anymore but we played at the
playground for almost 2 hours after lunch today. She did so well! She
is a quite a shy child sometimes and i think it's hard for her to play
with new kids on the playground, but we saw a friend of hers at
Chicfila and he came out and played with her. I think since she
already knew him it made her more confident with the other kids too.
Last time we were there around a month ago she tried really hard to
get up to the highest level of the playground to get to the big slide,
but got freaked out and came back down. I was really encouraging her
to keep trying because i could see that she could do it if she would
just keep going, but i didn't want to push her too hard. So today on
our way to lunch she said that she wanted to try again, but that she
might not be able to, and i just said that if you try you might be
able to, and if you can't it's ok too, but you kind of have to keep
trying until you can do something.

When we got there she tried once right away and got up one big step
with my help, giving her a boost, but then she really didn't want to
go any higher. So she came back down did great playing with the other
kids and her friend. Well eventually her friend and his parents left
and but she kept on playing with the other kids! it was so great, and
i was so proud of her for making new friends! well then, all of a
sudden (i was talking a bit to one of the moms) she comes out of the
big slide. She came running over and was like "Ms. Julia i tried and I
did it!!" it was the sweetest thing ever, and i was SO proud of her
for trying again all on her own and for doing it all alone. Then she
just kept climbing on up and up and sliding down all on her own, it
was great!

So several people in the world are making big leaps and accomplishing
alot today! I hope you accomplished something that you have never
done today too!!

Julia