A new month... bring on February...

I am headed into a new month and am so glad to be done with January! You may be saying that January is not over but I have ended it early. I am done with it!

I have been spanked this month. I should be sleeping now but I am just relaxing and processing it all. I was so busy at work. I had several big trainings to do, a newsletter to complete and I chaired a fair that the school district I work for put on with six other districts. It is to provide information on services available for our students with disabilities as they transition out of high school and into adulthood. We had vendors from 60 different organizations there providing information to over 500 families with children with disabilities. I have worked on this fair the better part of the last three months and took on more of the work than I would have "if I had known then what I know now". Either way the fair was last night and it went very well and all my other trainings and projects are completed!

At the same time, the girls have been ill most of the month off and on. Catey was out of school for a week and poor Selina is on about her 12 illness since coming home in June. She keeps getting respiratory and/or ear infections. One right after another. We are working on it with her doctor. She is now on daily medicines and breathing treatments to help her through this winter. We are hoping it is part of it being her first winter here and that she is just catching all she is exposed to. She is a trooper and does not know she is ill most of the time which makes me feel better about her going through this. Hopefully next winter won't be as bad. I don't like having the kids on daily meds but I am really anticipating that this will help her get through this winter and catch up from all these illnesses.

I am just happy that we are through this month. Balancing work and home was difficult in January. I know other working moms can appreciate those times when you are really needed at both. Thankfully I have an awesome husband who did a lot of those things I would usually do this month.

Work will ease up for me the next few months, Selina is hopefully on the mend for good and we are meeting with our social worker and starting our homestudy next week. I am sure in the meantime, I will find a few more projects to start working on. I can't keep still long. I look forward to getting more pictures posted here as I am behind in sharing stories and pictures. So come back and visit soon as I plan to post more in February...