Moments in Time

Whew! I am GLAD that this week is over.

The dreaded attendance reporting went well. Only a few corrections to make and no angry parents. In fact, my principal gave me a thumbs up on the attendance (literally) at our after work celebration on the last day of summer school.

The last week of summer school was nutty between all the work involved in closing out the session (lots of paperwork and checklists) and the fact that the stomach flu hit full force mid-week. We sent several kids home daily the last few days of school. The end of the session came just in time!!

I am also very happy to say that we are done car shopping. (Give me a root canal any time. Cheaper and not any less enjoyable. I hate all the haggling and hardballing.) On Monday we will be the proud new owners of a (used) Ford Escape. It's an '06 and only had 11K miles on it. They didn't come down much on the price (they said that they'd had it a while and had marked it down a few times), but we were pleasantly surprised at what they gave us on a trade in. Made it worth it not to hassle with selling it ourselves. Here's our new vehicle:

The highlight of my week was finding out my salary for my new job. I had hoped it would be close to what I made in summer school (that job is a higher salary grade than my school year job will be). Even better - it will be a little bit more. They looked at my years of experience (presumably my AT&T years) and put me on a higher step on the pay scale. This is really what they *should* have done, but being the school system you do the happy dance when they actually do it.

I have a month off before I go back to work. (Unfortunately, that also means no paycheck but you can't have everything!) The girls and I are making our plans! :-)