New Beginnings: October 2013

The past 3 months have been crazeee! I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work from the University of North Dakota and 3 very short weeks later I started an OVER Full-time Master of Social Work program at UND. Amaya is back at the lovely Brenda's Childcare (home daycare) and she is having a blast with all of her old friends. And the same kids are still there, which is great, as well as younger siblings of those same kids. It's such a family atmosphere there. So Eric and I are just as happy for that fact. Thirdly, Eric started working at Amazon at the end of August! He is back in the swing of full-time work. He's making it look easy, let me tell you. My internship was full-time and only lasted 3 months and I was dying. I learned that I was not as flexible and not as good at multi-tasking as I thought I was. Lesson Learned!

GOOD NEWS ALERT! I was offered a position at Community Violence Information Center (CVIC) in Downtown Grand Forks as a Kids First Child Visitation Specialist (part-time). I accepted BUT I hope that whatever my work schedule is, since I will have to work in the evening, Amaya will be taken care of.

Alrighty, now on to Hall-O-Ween! So I was extra proactive this year with house decorations, more proactive than years past. I am just feeling really good about the holidays this year and I am getting better at trying things that I am always thinking up in my head. I have never been very creative but Pinterest is helping and HGTV is always fun to watch and get ideas.

Amaya and I went to the annual YMCA halloween night this past sunday and she had lots of fun. And two weeks ago we went to the pumpkin patch, so she has had her fair share of Haunted Houses. The one at the patch was super scary and she started crying right at the end, we thought she was going to make it but it got all of us pretty good. The haunted house at the Y! was a piece of cake compared to the one at the patch and she left saying "I didn't cry at all Mommy". :) Now the best part of the blog...The Pictures!!!! Check them out and see how we celebrated halloween and check out Amaya in her costume! She picked it out all on her own.