I like doing interviews too. I discovered the other day that my daughter thinks she is shy. I was shocked. We don't think she is shy and her friends don't consider her shy. She has amazing confidence though, which is something I never had at her age.
Hmm... something I've discovered... something positive...
I've discovered my 7 year old has an amazingly strategic mind. My DH bought the game Stratego. DH is great at strategy type things. Declan completely blew us away and whooped his dad in the game the first time they played, despite my husband trying his hardest to win. He has since beat his dad a few more times. I think my husband has won once. LOL It literally hurts my brain to play such games and I don't consider them fun so I find it pretty cool that my son is such a natural at them.
I've discovered my daughter is psyched and READY for middle school. Oh how I wish I had been when I started Jr. High! She is taking a month long summer course for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at the middle school this summer and she loves it so much. She's met several of the teachers who she will have (or at least be exposed to) in 6th grade and she has had a chance to get to know the school more and she's just totally excited. She can't wait! I am so happy that she is so excited about moving on from elementary school. I'm a little bummed about it myself as it means she is growing up.
I've discovered that I am super excited about my new position at work next year! I will get to spend more time with students than I have the past two years and that really makes me happy. Two years ago, when I first started working at the school, I would have freaked out a little at the idea. My own kids can grate on my nerves pretty quickly so I figured I'd really suck dealing with kids on a full time basis. I started part time and worked in the ISS/Detention room (we call it the Choice Room since kids visit for making poor choices) and never had more than 10 kids at a time (on a busy, busy day). Now I will get the opportunity to be around ALL of the kids, not just those who are in trouble or needing extra help. I'm so excited! I'm also feeling pretty confident about the technical side of my job... but we'll see how long that lasts.
I will be the new technology aide and responsible for keeping all of the tech stuff in the building up and running. I shadowed my predecessor for about 6 weeks at the end of last school year, so hopefully I am ready.
Lastly, I am very proud of DH and I. We have been working so hard (Dave Ramsey style) to pay off everything. We got down to only having a few thousand left on the van. Tornado season kicked in and we ended up driving up to the school I work at (closest storm shelter) several times within a few days. After mulling it over for a while, we decided to go ahead and get a storm shelter NOW instead of waiting until everything was paid off and paying cash. It was a hard decision, but I have to look at it as life insurance. We don't hesitate to pay for life insurance, you know? Anyway, we found a short term loan with a really low interest rate and applied for that to get the shelter. I'm always a nervous one when it comes to such things and I was holding my breath until we found out whether we were qualified or not. The gal came in and said "well, you're qualified, but..." and I began to panic. Then she went on to say that they were offering us a $15K pre-approved credit card. I was kind of shocked, totally not what I was expecting. Anyway, this is where the pride comes in... I'm proud that we have worked hard enough to pay off everything that we qualified for such a large line of credit and I'm even MORE proud that we had the good sense to politely say 'no thank you'.
The storm shelter will put us back about 3 months on our plan to pay everything off, so it isn't a big blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things. And, in the meantime, we have a SAFE place to hang out if the weather is scary!
** Oh, and I realize that for some $15K is just a drop in the bucket. However, we live in small, poor, area and that amount goes a long way. Our previous credit accounts have never been that bit (thankfully, as we would have racked up even more debt!). Also, less than a year ago our credit was so bad that we wouldn't have qualified for a $1K credit card. Sad but true.
