Massive update *beware!*

*takes deep breath*

Ok, so just what have me and my clan been up to the past 2 years?

So as not to take up plenty of your reading time, I will try to summarize.

Last time I blogged I had just mentioned I graduated college. Yep. I did.  Then I entered myself into an alternative education program for obtaining a teaching certificate---which I did and passed with flying colors tyvm! ;)
 The program ended in August and lo and behold I got hired in that same month, just hours before taking off to BIG BEND National Park that year.  Literally, I mean HOURS.  They wanted me to go sign papers that next day and I kindly asked them to give me a few days since my foot was practically out the door at that moment.  They agreed, we had a short but exhuberating trip and I chained myself to the working class on August 8th, 2005.

I teach 9th/10th grade Art class.

Yay me!

That first year was a doozee...just a month after school began, my Sheaina collapsed at school from hypoglycemia (it was a HELL of a call to get at work), my mom had a masectomy, I had a nervous breakdown, we were near foreclosure, and my father in law had a heartattack.

But things got better. :)

Sheaina recouped, she had a few more episodes which ended her in the hospital, but otherwise, since 2006, she's relatively been hospital-free!! :)

My mom is a survivor of breast cancer and I am so proud of her for being so strong during that time.

My father in law and my mother in law both got themselves back on the exercise/low fat regimen and both of them are doing great! my father in law seems much happier these days because of that too.

I got over the foreclosure scare.  We worked things out with our mortgage company( we had just fallen behind due to medical bills and such) but we are now in the process of selling our home. 

This link is to the virtual tour if you care to take a peek!

We need to move closer to our jobs because the gas prices lately are REDICULOUS!!!

Other than that, the clan is doing well, my kids are growing--my son is 16, my middle one turns 15 on the 31st, and Sheaina is now a *mature* 8 year old. *rolls eyes*

She's all about HANNAH MONTANA, ya know! ;)

That's really it.  Doesn't sound like too much, eh? But all in all, it's what has kept me from being online much these days--unless of course, it's to bid on ebay. lol

I'll try to go around and visit.

P.S. I uploaded a few pics in the photoblog.

:)