Monday, September 21, 2009

Hola mi familia y amigos!

Okay, I didn't know what to put for the title and I'm feeling a little goofy today so I figured why not say hello in another language. :) We hope you all are doing well. I can't believe how time is flying! I keep trying to post at least once a week, but as you can see that isn't quite happening. Oh well, it's close enough for now. Anyway I just thought I'd tell you all about our weekend. As some of you know I did a Holistic Fair just a little south of Fort Collins on Sat. and Sun., it was AMAZING!!! I did chair massage, there were also other healers, readers, clairvoyants, as well as booths to buy things from new age stores in the area. I haven't done a fair since I was pregnant with Brendan and I am so glad I was finally able to do one again. This is the first time I did one completely by myself and it was the best fair I've done yet! Maybe I think so, because it's been so long but also the energy at this fair was phenomenal! I believe I got just the right people for me to work on, I was busy both days and made twice what I paid for my booth fee! Now I'm just hoping and praying and visualizing a couple of people calling me to set up appointments for table massage. It feels so good to be working again!
While I was at the fair, Dave was stay-at-home daddy for the whole weekend! He took the boys to the CSU game to watch them become 3-0 for the season! I wish I could have joined them since it was actually Dave's very first time watching the game with his boys. That's all right, we have more chances this season to go to games and I only have a couple times a year to do a fair so I can get more clients. On Sunday he took them to the park and other than that they just hung around the house and spent quality time together, for the most part.
Today is a day for me to rest and it works out perfect that Brendan didn't have school today for a teacher collaboration day. The boys and I are hanging out in our jammies, watching a movie or two and going NOWHERE! We've already watched Peter Pan and later we might be watching The Muppets Take Manhattan. We are having a very good day so far and hope it continues. We hope you all are having a great day as well! Love to you all. :)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

We Have a Karate Kid in Our Home Now!

Brendan and I went Tuesday night to check out a karate class and get him registered in his very first extra-curricular activity. There was actually a flyer for this school in his notebook one of the first days he came home from school and that was sign enough for me. That's how I learned about and started baton with Pride City Baton Corps in third grade was a flyer handed out in school. The name of the school is Sei Shin Kan Karate and meets at the boys and girls club, I believe to keep their costs low and their focus is more to help kids learn taditional Japanese Martial Arts techniques to defend themselves and especially what to do in terms of stranger danger as well as teaching them respect, patience, perseverance, confidence and discipline. From what I've seen so far, the teachers are great with kids! They're a lot less competitive than other schools out there and at a very reasonable cost with no contract, which helps in case B changes his mind, although I hope he doesn't. The class is 45 minutes long every Tuesday evening. Brendan enjoyed it so much he asked me last night if we were going to karate again so I explained when he gets to go. I even participated a bit since I'll pry just be staying there while he's in class. It's so far from our house that it's pointless for me to go anywhere else. I'm sure Dave will take a few turns as well so he can meet the teachers and see what B is learning. They needed a few parent helpers so that the kids could practice getting out of two holds that they had showed them, that was fun and beneficial for me cause then I know what Brendan's learning and I can practice with him to build his skills. It will certainly help me worry just a little less about him being more independent as he gets older, knowing he has great skills to take care of himself physically and mentally. I hope he enjoys it so much that he sticks with it for at least a good amount of time, if not very long. Guess we'll just see what happens, but with the way he and C are liking to do kicks and things like that it's certainly a great interest for him right now. Hopefully sometime I can get pictures for you, maybe when he gets his uniform sometime in the next few weeks.