The same, and yet, completely different

Hellooooo!  Anybody out there?  Not sure if anyone still has this blog on their radar.  Between my crazy job and my personal crazy (depression) all my creative energy just got sucked right out of me over the past year.  There's been no blogging and almost no digi scrapping.

I'm still battling depression and probably always will to one degree or another.  However, this Fall I am starting on a new season of life.  I quit that all-consuming job to focus on sanity and family.  I've been working 15 hours a week for the past month (loving that!!) and will quit completely on 10/21 after training my replacement for a total of 15 hours.  Hope she's a fast learner.

Annali started Kindergarten this fall and is quietly brilliant.  Somehow I got elected head room mother and will be coordinating the fall classroom party over the next couple weeks.  After I completely quit working, Tyler and I are going to be holding preschool here at home.  He's also going to speech therapy and Kindermusik.  We'll be searching out lots of fun, FREE activities around town.  Alex is working tons of overtime to make up for my loss of income.   He has been my rock throughout my personal struggles.  I couldn't ask for a better husband or kids.

Money is the thing that scares me the most about this new phase of our life.  I want to be frugal without making my kids feel poor.  We are all going to be learning new habits.  We've been much too loose with our money and have often given in to buying worthless trinkets for the kids.  I've been totally inspired by a blog called Filth Wizardry into exploring our creativity and using things we have on hand already.  My friends at work blessed us with a gift card to W@l-M@rt.  Today we stocked up on some art supplies to supplement the recycling bin.  I'm looking forward to lots of creative fun with the kids.

Wishing you all the best,

Pam