Remember Me?

Hi there, remember me? I'm the girl who used to have semi-witty blogs like twice a week. Yeah, you know, the one who had all this time and energy to write blogs? She was cool. I'm gonna try and find her again.
RIM conference is over, sorority recruitment is over, Connor's birthday party is over, and the only thing I've got to focus on right now (other than the usual- kid, husband, house, work 1, work 2, etc) is studying for the GRE. So I'm trying to dig myself out of the pile of laundry, clutter and mail that has piled up the last 6 weeks to get some air. Some exciting things have happened over the last few weeks so I'll give you all an update.

1. Connor started preschool! So far so good, he loves preschool and he loves his teacher. It's a parent co-op so every day there are two teachers and two parents there. Each parent is responsible for working two days out of each eight week session. I worked one of my days on the first day of school so I could get the inside scoop right away. It was a good move on my part because I felt much more comfortable with leaving him there once I knew how everything worked. The kids in his class are really cute and I actually liked working with them. Huh, who knew I liked kids?

2. Two of my closest friends had babies! Ashlee and Mike had Madison Megan on August 25th(she's a super pretty baby) and Tiffany and Chad had little Nathan Wyatt (can't wait to meet him!) yesterday (10/13). I love little babies and I'm so happy these two are here. Congrats Ash and Tiff!

3. I helped out with my last sorority recruitment at Sac State. Once again, the women in the sorority were great to work with and amazed me in how cooperative they were. I enjoyed the weekend, but it felt good knowing this was my last one. I've done this for the last 12(!!!!!) years in some capacity or another so it's time for me to be done. I'm sure next year I'll do some phone consulting from the depths of Iowa or wherever we may be.

4. Dan has been jet setting from Phoenix to Iowa to Connecticut and back to Phoenix again. He is currently waiting at the airport for my mom to pick him up as he made it back safely to Sacramento, but his keys stayed in Phoenix:( Oh well, at least the SuperShuttle man has them and will mail them back. He's a trooper for keeping up with his very full course load while doing all of these interviews. He says today's interview went well. December 1st can't come quick enough!

5. We're having our shower remodeled, which sounds a lot more glamorous than it is. Basically, for the last 6 years we've been living here water has been leaking from the shower from somewhere or another. We tried to fix it a few times, but really, it needed to be completely redone. So, my brother's friend, Dan (what a name) and his father in law do contracting side work and they took on this project. It's taken much longer than expected due to a mysterious leak that couldn't be found, but it looks like it might just finish up this week. Other than different tile on the shower floor and a small panel in the ceiling of our deck (due to said mysterious leak) nothing will look different in our bathroom. The funny thing is that Connor is totally enamored with the shower guys. He calls them both "shower man" and wants to talk to them and watch them the whole time they are here. Whenever we get home and they are here he has to go tell shower man what we did and where we went. He even pretends his cars and little people are named shower man. It's pretty cute. Luckily shower man 1 is a daddy to two little boys and shower man 2 is a grandpa so they totally indulge him. We love shower man around here.

6. Said three-year-old sure is something. I swear, if a three-year-old knew what sarcasm is, I would think Connor was being sarcastic about 90% of the time. I mean, who can blame him with me as a mother and Rachel as a babysitter. He's super funny though and has an impressive sense of words and language. I love hearing him read books and tell stories because his voice is so cute and he uses the best words. What kid says words like "actually" and "perfect" and "totally" in the right context? Funny kid.

7. And finally, the RIM conference was last week. The weekend before the big conference I got the stomach flu. What kind of joke is the universe trying to play on me? So there I was, putting binders together taking breaks to puke. Well, okay, I didn't actually start putting binders together until I was done puking, but I was a sick girl still trying to plug away. The conference went really well. All of the details I worked so hard on came together and there weren't any major catastrophes. It was a good first conference and I'm glad I was a part of it.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but the good news is the blog isn't going anywhere so if I forget something I can just come back here and post. My next adventure is to study for the GRE. I am going to take it in the beginning of November. I have decided I won't apply for a PhD program until next year though. With Dan having so many interviews, I would have to apply to 8 different schools as the application deadline is the same as the day Dan can find out about acceptances. So, I'm going to wait, let us get settled wherever we are and then apply to whatever program I find. I'm excited, but I can wait a year.

Man that was a long update! Hopefully I can post with more regularity now!

Loves to all.