Preschool, Golf and Bowling, Halloween costumes and Family Time!

These past couple weeks have been pretty crazy around here.  We have been in school for two weeks.  We had Nicholas’s Birthday party (I think I still need to post pics).  Tomorrow we have another huge event!

Christian starts school!!

He’s so excited!  He got to go to open house on Thursday and LOVED it.  He colored, wore a construction hat, played on the playground equipment and met his teachers.  I’ll be sure to tell you how his day goes tomorrow.

This week has been wonderful! Eddie is on Pain Management and the attending doctors have been out of town.  All week long his schedule has been nice and slow.  He was off on Wednesday and got to spend Sunday and today (Labor day) with us.

Yesterday we went to Main Event and played Lights Out golf (the boys current favorite) and bowled.  We also went out to eat and had dessert.  On Friday night we took in a local high school football game.  That was fun and the boys loved watching the half-time show.  One of our friends directs the band for marching season, so we got to see his kids do their halftime show. 

I also have started working on Halloween costumes for this year.  Christian wants to be Blue from Blue’s Clues.  I am almost done with his costume.  Nicholas has decided upon being a doctor.  I am making him some Texas Longhorn scrubs.  They are both excited!!

Ed and I (mostly Ed)  have been fighting off a computer virus that we have picked up on our laptop lately. (I’m on the desktop now).  It’s a pretty sneaky one.  I am going to take the laptop into a computer guy (hopefully tomorrow) to have him look it over and make sure Ed fixed it all correctly.  We have started using a new antivirus program called Avast.  So far I am really liking the new results of having this program instead of AVG.  I’ll let you know how it all goes.

I’m going to tutor now—see you soon!

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Birthday Wishes, Stomach Bugs, Fellowship News, Tutor Demo, Starting School, and Little Boys Who Want to Start School

These past few weeks have been erratic, heartbreaking, and a huge still undecided whirlwind.

First, on the 18th, we accepted a position at TTUHSC for Pain Fellowship!!! 

Second, Nicholas turned 5 on the 19th!!  We planned for him to have a birthday party at Legacy Play Village at 10am on Sat, Aug. 22.  Grandma and Grandpa Ozuna drove to visit, and we had all the food bought (thank goodness I chose to do sandwiches and not pizza) and everything was ready.  The morning of the party, Nicholas threw up twice!!!  He was so broken hearted.  Luckily, he had gotten a Nintendo DS for his birthday from Grandma Spencer and played it all day.  He took a nap around 9:30am that morning, and by 12:00pm, he was laughing, running and playing again.  Basically he was out for the count just long enough to miss his party.  I guess we can relish in the idea that someone got to spend the morning at the table we reserved on our $50.  Oh, well…stuff happens.

We have rescheduled his party.  He’s excited, but the poor boy has had to wait a whole week and a half past his birthday.  I think he thinks it will never get here.

In other news, I got my Infinity Online Math Tutoring demo up, finally.  WHEW!  I am learning all about working with Windows “Crazy” Maker…and how everything has to be in this nice and neat order or it doesn’t recognize it. 

I did 2 tries on my first podcast today.  I am going to offer free podcasts on areas of math where students have trouble.  My first one is on adding and subtracting integers.  So far, I am having to trouble shoot the fact that my talking is much faster than my video…I guess I’ll be at it again trying to make this work.  No converting problems this time…just recording problems.  Hopefully I will get this troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and know what settings work best for my delivery on camera.  Im really excited about doing this and hope that it will also help to bring people to my website and get the word out on my online tutoring.

Nicholas started school this week!  He likes it more and more everyday.  I plan on writing a post with pictures on this soon.  I just haven’t been bitten by the writing bug lately.

Christian was NOT happy about having to stay home while Bubba was at school.  Everyday he asks to go sit down and color when we go to drop Nicholas off at school.  Everyday he expects to wear his backpack on his back and go pick up Nicholas at school.  Everyday he tells me, “Mommy, I go to school!”  Poor guy doesn’t understand “You get to go in 2 weeks.”  He also doesn’t understand that his school will NOT be Bubba’s.  I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there.

Infinity Online Math Tutoring Demo

I wanted to share with all of you the demo of my online math tutoring business.  Please keep me in mind if you hear of anyone needing tutoring.

I just released my math tutoring demo.  This is to get an idea of how the interactive online tutoring works.  Check it out and take a look at my website, Infinity Online Math Tutoring.  New Customers:  Intro offer--The first 30 minutes of tutoring is free and I also give discounts when you opt for 4 sessions instead of individual sessions. 

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Busy, Busy Month

August is finally here! I’d say it is the month I have been waiting for, but I really didn’t know it was the month I would be waiting for. The thing about this fellowship application/interview business is that we didn’t know when we would know anything. Now it is all starting to clear up.

All I am allowed to say so far is, Ed got an offer from Texas Tech on Friday for a January 2011 spot. He interviewed at Cleveland a little over a week ago, and they finish their last day of interviews on Monday of this next week. They told him that they would notify people of offers in the next two weeks. Ed felt good about Cleveland. He is supposed to be going to Philly this month, but has decided to cancel that interview. I think he’d rather go to Tech than Philly, so he decided to save us some money. He is also scheduled to go to Maryland for 2 interviews this month. The thing is that he is supposed to give Tech and answer around the same time, so it is not likely he’ll be able to interview and get an offer before having to decide. We are still going to go to Maryland and interview, I think--and also enjoy a little vacation. I’m super excited. I have to make sure it is good with my boss with my Avon Admin, but I am sure it will be.

Grandpa Mason is coming to spend a few days with us this next week! The boys are excited about the visit, and so am I! I cannot wait to play tennis with Mason!

Grandma and Grandpa Ozuna are coming to spend a week (most likely) with us for Nicholas’s birthday and so that Ed and I can go out of town. We are excited to have them come. We haven’t yet told the boys because they will ask us everyday until they are here if we mention it now.

Nicholas is having his birthday party the weekend before school starts. He is super excited to have a Transformers party. We have invited a few close friends that he plays with often. We are going to have it at Legacy Play Village. ( I just remembered I was supposed to go pay for that---shoot! I’ll have to call them on Monday).

Schools starts for Nicholas on Monday, Aug. 24th. He’s excited. We went today and got his and Christian’s fall clothes. They are getting so big!! Nicholas is in size 5, and Christian is in 3T!!! Some of Nicholas’s 4T shirts fit Christian. He’s just a big boy.

I have continued working out this week, but I changed up my routine. My muscles are screaming at me (and have been for a week) because of the classes I have been taking. I have been playing tennis once a week (except for this week. I was supposed to go today, but got rained out).

I’m still marketing my online tutoring, but kind of at a standstill until school begins and first tests come back. My goal is to have my first client or two in September. Wish me luck, and refer anyone you come across to my website, http://infinityonlinemathtutoring.com

You all have a nice night! I’m going to bed.

Fellowship, Tutoring, Daily Activities and Birthday Parties

Hello friends (and family)!  It is the beginning of a new week.  I’m sitting here on my 3rd cup of coffee and the boys are watching Dora and Diego on the TV.  I’m due at the gym in about 45 minutes. 

Apparently, Nicholas “wants to do something fun, but nothing is right now.”  He’s been put on the couch because he won’t quick aggravating his brother.  He has definitely learned the art of pushing Christian’s buttons. 

This week is an exciting one.  It marks the beginning of Ed’s big wave of interviews.  He has one on Friday (Texas Tech) and then one on Monday (Cleveland Clinic).  These are both Top 5 schools and he is really excited for getting interviews to both and even more excited that they are so close to each other.  I am not sure if I explained this, but the way this works is that he interviews and they either invite him to a position or not.  Once they invite him, he has about 2 weeks to decide if he accepts or not.  The catch is that he may have other interviews he has yet to go on.  We’ll have to see how all of this turns out.  It’s quite dramatic around our house when it comes to applying for fellowships.  Everything is up in the air for a while.

I get my interview portion on Thursday night (they are not really interviewing me, but they get to know me better) at dinner for Tech.  It’s kind of nerve-racking even for me because I have to be careful not to say the wrong thing while still being pleasant.  I always have a hard time speaking to new people (I get a little quiet).  I never know what exactly to say.

This past weekend was awesome!  The boys and I almost got Daddy for the whole weekend!!  He was scheduled for Trauma backup on Saturday, but got home at 9:00am!  This let us have lots of fun with him this weekend.  The boys went to the park with him, we all went on a walk, we went and played golf and went out to eat twice!!!  Lots of fun!!!  This is the first time in several weeks where we have had almost an entire weekend with Daddy without work.  VERY NICE!!!

Other things we plan to do this week?  Library, Playgroup, Playing everyday at the Falls while Mommy works out (they love this). 

On the tutoring front, I have had a couple successes—but still no clients.  Summer is hard for new tutoring clients.  My next door neighbor has a friend who is supposed to call me for this fall to tutor college math.  Also, I went to Nicholas’s school this weekend to help paint and mentioned to her that I was the one who had emailed her earlier in the summer about donating one hour a week to tutor at their school.  She was really nice and excited that I wanted to give my time.  She also mentioned that if I am certified that she hires teachers to tutor in the spring for money.  That would be paying work during daytime hours!  Also it would be really flexible work hours.  I told her I would seriously consider it in the spring. 

I have also started using Twitter (notice the updates in the right hand corner of my blog?)  I’m liking it, but not many of my friends are on it.  Anyway, if you are, let me know!  I’d love to “follow” you! 

Also, we are working on planning Nicholas’s birthday.  Right now it looks like it might be on August 22nd.  He has opted to forgo Safety City in favor for Legacy Play Village (that big park out west of town—he’s had his party there before).  We are looking at morning around 10am since it is so hot.  I need to check on reserving a table, so I will get you more info soon!

Well, I’ve gotten in an ear-full this morning!  Have a great day!!!