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We are home from California, and we had a great trip! I don't enjoy airplane rides though. Too small of a space even for people as short as I am. We went out there for Wolf's dad's 60th surprise party.

Highlights from the trip:
Wolf's dad being genuinely surprised and happy to see us all.
Wolf's Aunt and Uncle trying hide from Wolf's dad by hiding behind a newspaper and ducking low in their seats...directly in front of the restaurant.
Wolf's Aunt and Uncle speaking yiddish.
Joey-the cuddliest Golden Retriever on the planet.
Watching Wolf and his brother Jason interact.
Floating in an edgeless pool that that overlooks Sacremento.
The airlines did NOT lose our luggage.
Meeting a woman that sounds exactly like the woman from the Seinfeld episode who says "I had pony! he was a beautiful pony and I loved him!"
Funny discoveries, not as funny to Wolf and Jason.
Getting a break from work.

Un-highlights
Being asked about 55 times if I am pregnant (45 of those times was from Jason)
Smelly person on the plane
Not sleeping very much
Creepy Carlos
Seeing very yummy and food and not feeling well enough to eat it.

It was so hard to go back to work today, I hope I adjust quickly.

No more stressful work dreams?

Today at work, all the kids came back and everything is going back to normal.
For over a week I have been having horribly stressful and very realistic dreams about things going wrong at work, even this weekend after all the cleaning was done.
My boss got back on Sunday and is extremely pleased with all the work that got done and how great everything looks, despite the less than perfect paint job. I am hoping that now, my work nightmares will end. I officially did everything I could do, and my boss is happy. So, I am hopeful that I will sleep peacefully tonight.
In other good news, a co-worker friend of mine came and got the evil couch of doom today! Even more exciting is that her dad came with her to help pick it up, and he offered to fix our ginormous hole for free! YAY! Two big problems solved. I love nice people. Good timing too, because Winnie has just taken interest in the hole and in eating the pieces of drywall around it.
Terah just moved back to the Sunde's and I am sad, I will miss our little basement dweller.

Short Summary Of My Weekend

I am very sleepy. This is because I have a patch behind my ear that is supposed to help with motion sickness. I am going to use if for our flight to CA on Wednesday, but I wanted to make sure I would not have an allergic reaction to it before I am stuck on an airplane. One of the side effects it can have is drowsiness, and I am drowsy, but not allergic!

Good thing's from weekend:
Relaxation at home
Sleep
Hanging out with My Husband
My friends coming home from Africa!!!
Terah sleeping in my basement and showing me her pictures
Lunch and Party with friends
Not going to work
Going for a walk on this lovely day

Not so good things:
I don't feel well.
Our attempt to get a new free pullout couch from my sister, failed miserably.
Said couch, is the cause of a huge hole in our dry wall.
I have a huge couch taking over a our living room,that is not for being sat upon. It is just for taking up precious space until someone comes to give it a new home. Or until we burn it...
I will put up photos of our hole in the wall once I find that thingermajingy that you use to put pictures on the computer.

I am very computer savvy, in case you hadn't noticed...

Yay:)

Cleaning week is over. I am so happy about that, I could cry.

My husband is phenomenal. He helped so much today, he painted and shopped for us at work and saved us all an enormous amount of time. There are many people who have made this week a heck of a lot easier, and to them, I am so very grateful. They helped when they weren't even obligated.

Now, a note about my dog Winnie, just because I feel like it, and she is currently pacing around our basement as I write and watch the Olympics with Wolfy.

Winnie is the most ridiculous dog I have ever known, which fits with Wolf and I, because we are very "special" too.I can only imagine what our children will be like.

Winnie, is a  German Shepherd.  Scary right? In the words of Dwight, "false". She is afraid of everything...literally. She is afraid of boxes that she has not seen before, yes cardboard ones, her tail, cats, and vacuum cleaners. She values ice cubes over any other treat and will come skidding into the kitchen whenever she hears the freezer door open in hopes that a stray cube will magically rain down upon her. She is only like 60 pounds, at most, and is about 5 feet fall on her hind legs. She looks like we starve her, we don't and there is nothing wrong with her physically, the only explanation is that she is so hyper and neurotic that she burns off her calories as soon as she eats them. She likes to eat in the dining room, so she takes her food pebbles into the carpeted dining room and drops them onto the floor, and eats them one at a time. OCD? She spins in a circle about 4 times before she lays down, and she likes to be as close to us as is physically possible. She does sound scary when she barks, so she is a good little guard dog,and when we go for walks  people stay away because they think she is a normal German Shepherd.

Her latest obsession is light hunting. She looks for any reflection she can find, and will chase it, bark at it, and try to bite it. She has bitten the wall several times, which means that she bumps her face and nose frequently, but appears un-phased and focused on her prey.

I love her a lot, because and in spite of her unique qualities, I am glad that she is a cuddly dog and that she can appear frightening when I am home alone. 

I just wish she didn't shed and did not ruin all of the white carpeting in our home with mud and pee-walking.

That is all. Happy Weekend!

Maybe one day I will write a note about Shane our dog trainer, but I don't know if words could possibly suffice.

I am ready to go to California

Next week, Wolf and I are going to California to see his family. I am very excited to go away for a few days because I feel very crazy and I need a break.Today was a day that I just felt completely incompetent. I felt like I didn't know what I was doing, or how to manage time effectively,and I wondered why on this great big planet that anyone would ever trust their business to ME!The painters screwed up a lot, and I did not even realize this until someone pointed it out to me, after I already paid them and I am just having a dumb day. However, I did get Fluffy (our class turtle) a new tank, and it looks much nicer that the one with the big crack in it! Hooray.
Also, Alyssa came and organized the office and it looks about a bazillion times better, and that made me very very happy. Thank you Alyssa:).

I will not whine anymore today, it's not really valid, I just needed to vent for a hot second.
I think those fairy godmothers in Sleeping Beauty are pretty darn sweet. I would enjoy for them to come and wave their wands so that all the things will magically go to their homes. The little fat blue fairy is my favorite. I would like for her to come and live in my pocket.

Today Was a Very Long Day

I am very tired. I am not at all used to working in the outdoors among the spiders, ticks, and other nasty evil things that I found crawling on me throughout the day. I am burnt like a lobster because I did not even think of wearing sunscreen, why would a pasty white girl like me need sunscreen on a 90 degree sunny day??
At work today, we filled the sandbox with about a trillion 50 pound bags of sand, cut down giant tree limbs, pulled out weeds, fought with prickly thorn weed things, washed and scrubbed all our playgound toys, and washed carpets with some dish soap and a scrubby brush. Everyone worked really hard, I am really proud of our staff for how helpful they are all being this week. I am also super happy that Wolf and Mike came and put out the tons of new mulch and raked it for me.
I am sore, itchy, burned and exhausted, but also happy...why? Because I feel like a beast:).

Tomorrow, my wonderful sister-in-law is coming to help me to organize our office, and that will be wonderful for two reasons 1. I get to hang out with her. 2. I will be able to find things when I need them.

In other exciting news, I just discovered "mini-subs" at subway (so what if it's the "kiddie" one). They are the perfect size and super cheap! 2$ for my ham and cheese classic. Subway apparently has discontinued swiss cheese, I did not realize that cheese was an item that you would discontinue,unless it was like goat cheese or something a little more unsual. I do not enjoy swiss cheese, so I am unaffected. Wolf is sad though.

Have I mentioned that I really hate spiders?
Yay for more Olympics tonight!

welcome to my blog!

Ok, so...I am not sure exactly why I think I am interesting enough to have a blog...but I will do my best to keep you entertained. I enjoy writing a lot, that is just about the only thing I miss about school, so I think it will be fun for me at least...

I am the assistant director of a daycare so I feel that most of my posts will be about my always entertaining children from work (thus the title of my blog). There are not babies anywhere in my home, just at my work in case that needed to be clarified.

This week I feel a little bit insane. This is because it is cleaning/painting/craziness week at my work and I am in charge because my boss is out of town. So far, I have had 3 nightmares about the painters messing up the whole place, and one dream about our place flooding in the middle of the night(which actually ended up happening on a smaller scale)prophet perhaps? The painters are doing a lovely job, it is just unfortunate that they don't speak or understand much english, and I never paid any attention in spanish class.

This job is causing me to discover my inner control freak...I am trying to not succumb to this exhausting side of myself but it is not easy! I always have considered myself to be  a pretty relaxed and go with the flow kind of person, and fighting this surprising beast within has been interesting. I think maybe I just need to find the right balance...

Also, for the first time in my life, I am addicted to the Olympics. I am watching those tricky synchronized divers as we speak!

Ok, I will stop rambling for now.

Before I go, here is my funny kid story from the last month or so.

Me to parent whose kids ear is swollen up almost to the size of his head: You need to come and pick up your son and take him to the doctor, he seems to be having some kind of allergic reaction.

Parent: Well, I don't know what I am supposed to do about it.

Oh dear.

On another note,  here is something I learned recently.

 You should not jokingly call your friends "crackers" in front of genius two year olds who remember and repeat everything you say...because maybe she might start to call everyone she meets a cracker...

Ok, now I am done for real.