I'm back!

Well it feels like for ever since I blogged last. I just haven't had a lot to say. I'm back at work and things are a little hectic in the morning. There is a new little girl. Her name is Julie. Very smart and sweet. When she is not tired she gets up like a champ and gets herself ready with out me, How ever Friday I think every thing started to get to her, and she wanted to sleep. Usually all the kids are good the first week until Friday comes around and they are so tired from the days before. It takes some getting use to waking up at 6:30 am. Just like it takes a while getting use to staying up all night. I'm still adjusting to that. It's 4 am now and I'm starting to feel the need to sleep. Well I guess I will have to make some coffee and that should take care of it. I'm so glad this weekend is a 3 day one!!

Alicia is coming home for that week end from Job Corp. I like having her home but we don't always get to see much of her. She has to see her friends too. The bad part about having her home is that she always says she doesn't want to go back. Alicia if you read this... I get it that you don't want to go back. Really I do, but I'm so proud of you for sticking it out especially when you hate being there as much as you say you do. You are making a good decision by staying
there. It's been what around 5 months now?? I bet you have learned a lot while you have been there. So keep it up and your time will be up before you know it.

Our kitchen is coming along I know it feels like it will never be done but Dwight was working on the crown molding tonight and then we have to put our other cupboards up, finish the back splash, put down the flooring and make a few touch ups with the painting. We put a couple of dents in the walls while we were putting in the counter top, but we got it. It is a very tight fit and the last time Dwight cut it in half to install it, I'm so glad that we got it in and in one piece.
By the way Alicia did I say "Thank You, for helping with that" I know we would not have gotten it in with out your help. Soon we will be able to post a picture. No really I mean it we will finish it this year. Honest! Anyway I think it's time for that cup of coffee. Until next time....

Where that big white fluffy thing go! 

First night back at work

Well this weekend was very productive in the kitchen. We got the counter top on and the new sink in. It looks so good. I cant wait for the rest of it to be done. I'm so glad that we decided to put in a new counter. It is going to help bring every thing together. When it is complete I plan on taking pictures and posting them.
Wow am I tired. Not use to staying up all night. The kids were all great it was a good morning. We have one new 8 year old girl in the dorm. She has a coccular implant. Seems very nice but is a little shy right now, Her Mom and Dad stayed over night. Her Dad came over and helped her get read a little. Well I can barely keep my eyes open let alone type. Will catch up next time.

Back to work ): Summer is over.

Today was my first day back to work. It was a workshop kind of day, sitting around listening to other people talk about what happened over the summer. Dr. Sanstead was there he talked about how our staff will have to work together to keep things going. Tomorrow and Friday we will be spending most of our time getting ready for the kids to come on Sunday. We don't have a lot to do I think I will be spending time on a computer creating door tags so we will know who is sleeping where. Any way if we can't find any work to do we can go home, as temptingf as that is I will most likely stay for the money. We are getting two more kids. One is younger I think 4 and she will only be coming half days and will not be in the dorm. The other one I didn't catch what her age was but she will be in the girls dorm with me. I think some one said she was about 11 or some where around there. It's a good thing we are getting new kids. There was talk about moving all the students to the Blackhurst dorm where I work and maybe dropping one night watch. After the talk Karen my coworker talked it over and we both decided that if that happened neither one of us would wand to stay alone with that many kids to watch. That would mean 24 kids ages 7-21 in the same building boys on one side and girls on the other. With both brothers that will stay up all night. Hummm let me think....No I pretty sure I would not want that responsibility. Anyone that would do that would have to be crazy. If you were busy with a sick student and couldn't be watching the other students what's to stop the older boys and girls from getting together. Then who's fault would that be???? I'm guessing that if they (the new administration) stop and listen to our reasons they would either have to keep us both in that dorm or find someone that didn't know the whole picture and agree to take our place and I don't see them lasting too long. Oh sure it would be fine in a perfect world where kids go to sleep and sleep all night and no one gets sick. But that just isn't what happens. We also found out that we will not have any sleepers this year. Those were people that lived in the dorm and if we had a fire drill they would help get the kids out of the building. Have you ever tried to wake up a profoundly deaf person up they can't hear the alarm (which by the way is quite deafening) and flashing lights that go off don't even faze them. Some of these students will not budge when it goes off. Maybe one can be picked up and carried out but the others well you get the picture. Anyway I guess time will tell. They seem to be reasonable people and catch on quickly so I'm hoping that is not going to happen that way. The two new administrators do not have experience working with deaf and I hope they will be willing to listen to the ones that have been working at the school for years. I guess I feel better getting that off my chest. Thanks for "listening" so to speak.

We are getting closer but still have a lot to do!

Well the kitchen is getting closer to being finished. Tomorrow we are going to GF to get our counter top, Dwight thought we should put in a new sink too. So we will be shopping for that, and some contact paper for the backsplash. He said since we are putting in the new counter top that's the time to change the sink . It makes sense to me. Most of the painting is finished, the doors and the drawers are finished and I have the lines drawn on the wall for the wall paper. Every thing is in and I think things will go faster now. (: At least that's what I'm hoping for! I went to Minot to pick up Alicia. She will be home until the 21st. She is on medical leave. She needs to get away from there for a while. I hope that she will be able to get back in the swing of things when she returns. I'm sure a lot of things will change while she is gone. They have been doing some remodeling in the single parent dorm and she said they w ere going to do the female dorm next. There is always change in the other students too. Any way I think the mono was getting the best of her and I hope that she gets some rest while she is home. She has been told to keep the driving to a minimum. Did you all see the gas prices today??!! Scandalous I think. In Rugby it was $2.64 a gallon unbelievable. I wonder how long it's going to be that high? What is going on with the comments? I got one from a timber company. Strange huh? Well I just deleted it because it has nothing to do with me so they can just find some other blog to advertise their junk. I didn't even read it all before I deleted it. They can get their own blog!

Where is the time going??

I can't believe it's been so long that I have written a blog. The kitchen is coming along ok. It seems slow. Our flooring is in but we are waiting to finish the painting. I hate to do the oil for the trim and Dwight is going to do it. We need to do some sanding first and we are going to wait until we get the cupboard doors on before we do that. I painted the drawers and some of the cupboard doors today and Dwight worked on some more of them tonight. I hope we can get them on tomorrow and then I can do some sanding. The weekend is coming and it's suppose to be hot so I'm thinking that Dwight will want to go to the lake. It sounds like a good idea. We don't have very many days left until I go back to work. We haven't gotten a letter to let us know what day for sure but I'm guessing it will be the 17th. or the 24th. We always start on a Wednesday and have three days of inservice before the kids come and then my first night will be the following Sunday. I hope we will get the kitchen done by then! Well I don't really feel like typing any more so... until next time.