Too much for blogging.

Obviously, I have been consumed by life and unable to blog since the summer. Should summer be capitalized? I am paying attention to these things since I will be starting school in January in the Teaching Program :) Woot woot!

Taking a moment to reflect on this past year has my mind going in a million different directions. Well, since vacation so much has happened in the Gilbert house. The kids went back to school (duh). Gabe loves middle school. Gabe is also getting hair in his arm pits. Joey is ready for middle school. He talks about it a lot, but I will be tearful when the time comes. I love the Special Educ teachers at RSE and I will hate to say goodbye. Ethan is doing super awesome. He was tested for the gifted programs earlier in the year and missed it by a hair. I'm ok with that though. I would rather him excel in his regular class than struggle in a gifted class, and he is still in boy scouts. Mary is an old soul sometimes. She is becoming more mature and girly and always says what's on her mind. She also grew her bangs out. I like her hair much more since she has grown them out but she lets them hang in her face and it drives me nutssss. Chris has been a good boy too. Honestly, he has been on over time more this year than not. He is currently off for 2 weeks and getting some much needed rest.

I got a little summer break and went back to school taking 5 classes and working part time at CCVW. Chris and I knew when I decided to go back to school that money would be tight, but man oh man sometimes it has been tough. I decided to look for another money making outlet and stumbled (somewhat) upon Advocare. This is where it gets fun. I'm a new woman, seriously. I know that I have a tendency to be somewhat dry and sarcastic but I get fired up and emotional about my family and Advocare :) I have managed to lose 32 pounds healthily, come from the brink of diabetes, gain muscle, gain lotssss of energy, and earn an extra $500 on average a month. Also, it's just the beginning of something larger and greater. I bought myself a pair of size 16 pants a couple of weeks ago and I can get them on and almost buttoned. lol. They will button in just a few more weeks. I can't remember the last time I was a size 16, sometime in high school. It's hard not to blow up facebook with Advocare and I know that it's hard for some people to understand and some people have no desire to hear or see anything about Advocare, but if you had felt like I felt before..... and could experience how I feel now.... you would have a reason to be blowin' up some news feeds.

School is great :) My eyes have been opened to what the teaching world is going to be like and I have more to learn and experience and I'm ready for that. One thing that has disappointed me though is all the politics in the schools. Why can't teaching just be teaching? I don't see the classroom as I used to see it but I feel that teaching CHAMPIONS is what I'm meant to do, we will see where I am led ;)

Maybe, I'll make an attempt to blog on a regular basis, maybe not. I'll try an update as much as I can :)