2017 is well on its way and even only in the 9 days since the last blog, so much has happened and/or will happen.
First, our first snow! And it snowed quite a bit. About 3" I think, but it's been 3 days now and it's almost all melted. It's like spring weather now. 50s and 60s before it drops down again for a little bit in a few days. The kids loved it, but I was cold. Now it's just going to get hot or something. I just want to be in perfect weather.
Second, Connor started school again and, this time, Emmeline as well! She had a lot of fun from what I could tell and she didn't have any issues with me leaving her. Connor didn't either the first day but broke down the next few times, so we'll see how she does the second day, which is tomorrow. However, I don't think she'll have that problem being the second child. Connor started his first full day this morning and he didn't take it very well in the beginning. I had to keep scooting back because he wanted to be behind me and stuff. Of course, his usual teacher is gone for a couple of days so the other teacher was substituting at the front door, whom he doesn't really like, but finally after some coercing, he went with an aid to put back some toys that Emmeline brought back on her first day. Of course, usual Connor, at pick up he was all smiles and was happy about his extended day. I'm hoping that he will just be happy to go on Wednesday and not do the stuff in the morning that he did.
That sort of brings me to the amount of free time that I'm now going to have sort of spread out throughout the week. MWF, I'm just going to have Emmeline until I pick him up. That's at 3pm. While she's sleeping, I am totally free and can work on some writing that I need to finish up my first book, which is one of my personal goals. I'm not sure what I'm trying to achieve with this project...in my mind I'm thinking it will be super popular and use the sales on Amazon to pay for our Disneyworld, but the reality is that I'll get some bad reviews and my pride will be hurt...we'll see, though. On T/TR, I have about 2 hours all to myself. The first day, I went to the library to write. I think I should use that time more productively, though.
Third, I'm planning on driving out to Colorado for a few days this Friday to get a little break for myself and pick up some stuff from Chris. I'm driving because I don't like flying, but also because I wouldn't really be able to bring back the computer(s) that I'm going to get from him. Either way, I like driving and it will be a nice "meditation"...or something. I might get a book on CD or something from the library. I wish I could have my laptop on and use voice recognition to work on my book while I'm driving, but that's probably not going to work. Laura is worried because the roads might get bad, but I don't think there's anything to worry about. I got the oil changed on her car, too. I need to get the suv's oil changed plus there's a slight leak coming out of it. The other interesting thing that I'm going to try is to get some dry ice to bring some Braum's to the McGuires. I'm planning on buying it at Salina and then putting it in a cooler and getting it there around noon the next day. It should keep quite chilly until then. Although, I need to work out the logistics a little more because I think I'm going to break the drive into 2 days. Thursday night will be the 3.5 hour drive to Salina. But the Braum's there and then take it next day...oh, I guess that's the logistics. I'll get the dry ice on the way out of town, I guess.
Anywho, I should get going. I'll still in my super unmotivated mode...not sure why. I was going to do some bills and stuff, but I ended up playing this stupid, but fun, Overwatch game.
