I guess it's that time again.

I know you haven't heard from me in a few weeks and that's because I started working full time 5 weeks ago. I am liking my job so far, so much drama at Sprint coming from the people that call in I could write a book.

Life here at our house has been pretty normal, even calm. Jacob is doing so well in school, I am so happy for him. He comes home and tells me all about his friends. The other day he came home very upset because on of his classmates had eaten something off the floor. I asked him if the classmate had dropped a piece of food on the floor, he quickly corrected me and said "NO MOM HE WAS EATING TRASH!" HE was very disturbed. Later that week he came home and told me that the classmate was sick and he thought it was because he ate trash. Who knows?

Riding the bus is his favorite part of school. He can't wait to see the bus pull up to our house. HE has been doing really well on the bus too. There are two kids in his class that ride his bus so he sits with them. I have found that being like the other kids is very important to him. He wasn't eating much lunch at school so I made him a lunch to take with him and he said he didn't want me to do that any more because the other kids eat school lunch. Another thing is the uniform. He seems to be very impressed that they all have the same clothes. He very much likes for thing to be the same. So far his social skills are really coming along.

He has also been taking less medication than usual. He takes 2.5mg in the morning and another 2.5mg in the afternoon around lunch time. He is doing great on this dosage. He isn't a zombie in the morning when he takes it. It is just enough.

Julia is growing so much and she had decided that she is a Mermaid. Every morning she asks me if she looks like a mermaid, and if I can see her tail growing. She is determined that she WILL be a mermaid if she wishes hard enough.

She also has an imaginary friend. Jacob had one for a day or two so this is kinda fun to play tea party with her and her friend. She also plays beauty shop almost every day, her nails are never the same color two days in a row. Another thing she has started doing is trying to be just like me. She wants us to match every day. I think it is fun.

Julia has recently started drawing. She draws "people" an just about anything we will let her. I will have to scan one to show you. It is so cute, it's just a big circle for a head and body with two line for arms sticking out of each side and two legs out of the bottom with eyes and a mouth drawn in the circle. It is one of her new hobbies and she names each one of them.

Jacob and Julia both have really been getting along very well lately. I guess with Jacob having something to do outside of the house it gives him an outlet. They have been going for scooter rides together every day. There has also been a lot less arguing between the two of them. this makes for a much happier house all around.

As for them adjusting to me being at work, they are fine with it. When they aren't in school (Jacob longer than Julia) they are with family having a blast. When I get home we have been going for a walk around the block. Julia picks flowers and Jacob collects rocks. When we get home we all sit down and have dinner and then a bit of down time with whoever is not in the tub. Then I sit with each of them in their beds and talk about their day before they go to sleep. I miss being here at home but it makes me feel better that I know they are having a good time with the people they love so much.

God has been good to us so far and helped us all adjust to the many changes that have gone on the last few months. I look at it all as a blessing and a lesson in patience and peace.