Faire has come and gone.  And I was only able to attend once :(  Either work or money had a role to play in my lack of attendance this year.  My heart feels saddened over the fact that faire is over and I feel like I havent gone.  There are years to come.  And hopefully this year I will be able to make a trip to Scarby.  Although I probably need to start saving and planning now.  Sometimes I wish faire would run year round.  But then when you think of that it might not have the same joy and fun as it currently does.  For the time being I will get to my sewing and hopefully have done a lot more by next faire season.

Yesterday we got the permission slip for DJ to participate in his annual Christmas program.  I am so happy that his school program is doing this.  But I am oh so concerned that I am going to start crying like I did last year.  I have come to accept that my son is deaf and he isnt like most others.  And I no longer cry like I did over that fact.  But when I see children from the ages of 3 - High schoolers putting on a Christams program it just brings to me to tears.  I happy that they are strong and are taking this hurdle with such grace.  But to think of the pain, rejection, and turmoil that they are going through or will have to go through brings me to tears.  Maybe with more years of dealing with this I wont find myself so emotional.  But as of late I sill am.  I guess it dont help if sometimes I am an emotional case to begin with.

I wonder if I can get my crying out before the program and not cry during it this year.  I dont know.

So its Friday and I'm at work.  Oh boy.  But it is a 4 hour word day today.  And I just cant seem to be able to get my mind to work.  I just want to play and screw around.  But I know sooooooo much that I should be working.  Oh well.  I guess I need to get off of the restricted sites, that the company dont know about, and get to work.  But I will probably end up sending a couple more text messages first and do some more searching on the internet first.

Hope everyone else is having a great Friday and I wish all a wonderful weekend.

I know I havent been on in a bit.  Things have gotten a bit busy.  And now I am working again.  No more staying at home for me at the time. :(  But not much worry there, I know this temp job wont last forever and I'll be a stay at home mom again.

Everything is going great.  We had most of the kids parent/teacher confrences last week.  And this Friday I have the final parent/teacher confrence.  All the kids are doing great.  Most are doing beyond great.  My lil Kinder boy is catching on wonderfully to reading.  So they are probably going to get him into more of an advance reader group.  I was excited to hear that since I love to read.

Well, I should probably get back to work.  Hope everyone is doing well.

So Lord Shadow and I took the wee ones to TRF today.  We only stayed for a couple of hours, due to the heat and the kids getting worn out and tired.  But we had a marvelous day.  For all the years I have gone in garb this was the first time in a long time that people were asking us to please stop so they could get pictures.  Which made me feel great seeing the face that I had sewn my dress, Lord Shadows doublet and Sir Boosealots (spl?) doublet.  Today we got to bring 5 people there for the first time.  4 of them were in garb.  My youngest had never been before.  The last time we took the wee ones we decided it would be better to leave her with a baby sitter.  My husbands nephew came with us.  He just recently moved here and hadn't ever been before.  Then my husbands cousin and wife, whom I am friends with, came.  I had loaned her my extra dress and I had made a kilt and shirt for him to wear.  And then those 2 had a friend that came with him.  The only one not in garb.

We had put the kids in "The Cage" again.  And had them go.  But Little Miss was going good until her brothers and sister left her.  Then she started crying and didnt want to be in there anymore.  So once she got out, our youngest boy was just crawling around in circles and couldn't find out how to get out.  So I paid my dues and went a crawling with them.  So everyone got a laugh and a couple of pics of me in my dress crawling through a small kid area.  But I had tons of fun so I'm not complaining.

After lunch we took the kids who wanted to go on the Kings Swing.  I was pretty sure it was going to happen.  And ended up laughing for the most of the ride, but Little Miss freaked out on the swing.  She is not a fan of ANY swing.  My Dad was on the outside of the gate waiting for us to get off.  And the entire time on the swing she was screaming "I want PaPa.  Papa come get me.  Help.  Let me off.  I want down.  Papa..."  My mother and I were laughing extremely hard.  But it was with good fun.

And then the last show of our day, we caught Sholo's 3 o'clock performance.  It was good we were laughing.

Well, I'm tired and need to get some rest.  I ended up being up for 31-32 hrs in the past 2 days.  Got up Friday morning and didnt get any sleep until after we had left TRF and was on the way back home.

I will post what few pics we took as soon as I get them on the comp.  We were playing and enjoying and kind of forgot to take pictures as we were doing so.