Shakespeare in the Park

4 years ago, Ed and I started a tradition that I hope will live long in our lives. We went to see Shakespeare in the Park. Sadly enough, that first year we got rained out, but in the following years, we have seen a number of very good productions. This year it was A Winter's Tale. It was a fun evening. Some friends of ours met us at the house and we headed out together. We also met up with some more friends at the park. We all brought food to share and just sat around chatting until the production started. All in all, it was a fun time of fellowship and the Bard. Now I'm already looking forward to next year...we have been hoping for Much Ado about Nothing or A Midsummer Night's Dream...I guess we'll find out in April next year! Until then...

This turned out a little dark...

I love the Internet!

Lately when I come home from work I sit down at the computer for a good hour (even though I just left my work computer where I was sitting for hours). This is my time to decompress and get what Ed calls. "my internet candy." So the other night I found this cool site: TickerFactory (ah-ha....did you notice that I know how to do the cool "link on words" thing now??? Must go back and fix all the rest!)

Anyway, you can add tickers that count down to certain things like a vacation or something vitally important like a wedding! So I added a ticker down at the bottom of my page that is counting down the days until we can go back to our semi-sane lives...after Adventure Month is over! I love Adventure Week, it's just nice to be able to sit back and breathe a sigh of relief that it's over and that it's been done well! So we have ONE month and TWO weeks to go!

Morning exercise

Ed and I got up at 5:15 am this morning to walk/run. Yea for us! It's always a lot harder to do that on Mondays after the weekend beats up on us a little bit. But we did it today and now I get to have a guilt free day!!! No worries about exercising when I get home tonight - just time to hang with the puppies and Ed!

Bittersweet

Yesterday was my last Sunday at Uptown. It was almost like any other Sunday, strangely enough. I was thinking about how it was my last time there when I was driving in and when I was leaving and a few times throughout the day when people asked me about it. But it pretty much felt like any other normal day. I think my lack of distress over leaving was because I knew that the preschool would be in the very capable hands of my friend, Brian Holt. He was there yesterday to shadow me (and boy did he...I couldn't shake the feeling that someone was following my all day) and learn how the Uptown preschool runs. The awesome thing is that there are so many wonderful people there who make things happen.

I'm looking forward to going to Plano this coming weekend and getting settled in there. I've already met with Mark and Pam - the awesome couple who basically runs the preschool there - and they have lots of ideas of things we can accomplish during this transition. I'm excited about the new challenges I will face and the people I will meet! It should prove to be an awesome time there!