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Another weekend flew by…

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Monday is almost upon me again already. Two days just isn’t a long enough weekend.

I’m so excited I finally finished my certification course for Quickbooks. It took me two months to get through it. I’m officially a Certified Quickbooks ProAdvisor. Pretty cool. I really learned a lot. Now I just need clients 🙂

We had a lot of fun today after church. We went to see Christian’s friend Katie (also age 6) race. Check out http://www.wqma.com/. It’s pretty amazing to see those little kids zooming around the track. I really found it amazing to watch the kids arrange themselves in numerical order so the races could start. I could definitely see why they have to pass a training and safety course before they can race. Driving in reminded me of horse shows… kids running around everywhere, motor homes, trailers (although a different kind, of course), equipment, activity, organization. It was really fun. I look forward to going to another race next season. For this year, they only have one more race, but it’s Sept 11, the same day as Sunday School Rally Day (there will be a picnic after church).

Well, I’m supposed to be preparing for training that starts tomorrow. But it’s more fun preparing for the quickly approaching tax season (and praying that it goes really really well). I think I’ll go figure out how to put my new Quickbooks ProAdvisor symbol on my website 🙂

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Almost my birthday

Monday, August 1st, 2005

I’m excited for my birthday tomorrow. I took the day off of work. My plan? To sleep in. To enjoy breakfast with the kids. To take the boys to the Children’s Museum in Everett. To drop them off and go swimming by myself. To pick them all up and take the boys to their swimming class. And to go out to dinner at Claim Jumper and order whatever I want :). I just got some new clothes from LLBean today, and my raise showed up on my paycheck on Friday, so life is really good right now. Oh, and one of my coworkers said she’d refer a few tax clients my way. I’m not sure if I should be eternally grateful and honored or just terrified. She somehow attracts clients with the most complicated, convoluted tax situations. Regardless, I do feel honored. A little scared, too, though because I don’t have enough practical experience doing bookkeeping. But I guess we all have to start somewhere.

Christian wrote, “I cant wat for skool” on the whiteboard tonight… clever kid. Brandon is trying to not wet the bed tonight… I pray for him to stay dry! Alyson is such a joy. She is always smiling and giggling. If I could just capture that somehow and hold it close to my heart forever, I would.

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Thursday July 28

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

I don’t think I have anything really exciting to say today. The bbq Tuesday night was nice. No engagement, just an evening wth nothing else to do. Never count on me to predict anything accurately LOL.

Yesterday was nice. Andrew took the boys out to a softball game and McDonalds, and Bill did some recording, so it was just Alyson and I (and she goes to bed early anyway). I got to watch Office Space for the first time in a long time 🙂 The boys had a blast!

Christian is looking forward to having his special day with Grandma Julie tomorrow. They’re going to go hiking… what fun! Brandon had his special day last week… they had McDonalds lunch at the park and went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I think the boys have had a really fun summer. I’m taking my birthday off work next Tuesday and I think I’m going to take them to go do something. I’m just not sure what yet. I have to have them back in time for swimming at 4.

It’s been too HOT this week… I know it’s summer, but I’ll be really happy when it’s in the 70s every day instead of the 80s. I shouldnt’ complain, though, with so much of the country in much more extreme heat than us.