It’s so embarrassing that the last time I posted it was April.  There’s been a lot going on, but nothing major going on.  Audi was working really hard in May to get a project completed - we’re all so proud of him.  Now that he’s done, we decided it was the perfect time for me to get my Master’s (before the kids are in school) so for the last four weeks, I’ve been researching and conversing with many resources to plan out my graduate program of study.  It looks great so far.  I’ve got everything worked out and will be done with all major classes in the spring.  I’ll do my Internship in the summer and take an exit course in the fall.  When I’m finished, I’ll have a Master’s in Education - Classroom Teacher: Library/Media and a Multi-Age Library Media License pending results of my Praxis II: Library Media.  It’ll be nice to have that out of the way in a year and just take enough classes to maintain my licenses.  I’m really excited and really nervous!

In other news, we had the big community garage sale last Saturday.  We had great weather and a big turnout.  I love garage sales.  I love organizing it the most.  Secondly, I love running it.  Some people have a hard time with haggling.  I enjoy it.  I mean, I don’t want this stuff anyway so why not ask me for a better price?  We got rid of most of the big stuff:  old sink vanity and medicine cabinet, baby toys and supplies, strollers, car seats, bouncy seats - gone!  My mom, sister and friend all put stuff in the garage sale this year, and they each made a good chuck of change.  I was pleased with the result.  It’s definitely worth all the planning to hold one.  Audi even let me get away for a few minutes to hunt down a breadmaker.  It was the only thing I wanted to look for that day and I said, “If I’m going to find a breadmaker, I’m going to find it on Ironwood.”  So Gwen drove down a block to Ironwood and parked the car about halfway down the street.  We walked down one side and went to a few sales then crossed over and sitting out on the driveway was a very nice looking breadmaker.  I asked the woman working if it worked and she said everything had been donated since it was a church fundraising garage sale so she wasn’t sure, but everything was now 1/2 off because it was around 3 pm and the garage sales were over at 5 pm.  I looked at the sticker - $3.  So, I got a breadmaker for $1.50.  I haven’t had time to test it out yet, but I imagine it works just fine since the outside looks like it was taken care of well.  I even found the manual for the make and model online so I know how to use it.  Sweet!  Did I mention I love garage sales?

As for the kids, Jayden is getting taller and Josie is getting more verbose.  It’s amazing how much they grow up in such a small amount of time.  They’re such sweet kids.  Josie has learned how to crawl out of her crib, but she’s so good about staying in bed until the morning.  This morning was the first time in about a month that she came in before 6 am.  I think it was 5 am today, and I said, “Honey, it’s too early.  Let’s go back to bed.”  She let me pick her up, and I carried her back to bed and laid her down, covered her up, and rubbed her back for awhile until she went back to sleep.  She came back in around 7 am.  :)  Jayden is doing very well with his routine also.  He fills up his sticker chart for sleeping all night in his own room very quickly now.  The bedtime routine is still a little time consuming, but worth it if he’s going to sleep all night in his own room.

Audi and I leave for Colorado in two weeks.  We’re very excited.  It’ll be nice to see Cory and hang out and have fun without having to worry about the kids.  It’ll be an actual vacation!  The night before we fly out, Audi and I are running a 5K here at Tawawa Park in Sidney.  Audi had found a program to go from couch to 5k in 6 weeks so we’ve been following that plan.  You focus solely on time and ignore the distance to just train your body to run for a certain amount of time.  Audi had to run 25 minutes today and actually ran a full 5K in that amount of time.  We go to mapmyrun.com to check our distance after we’ve run for our alloted time that day.  I’m up to 20 minutes so far and run at a pace of about 12 minute miles.  Not to shabby for me considering my best run ever was at Basic Training, and I ran about 8 minute miles.  I’ve really enjoyed running and having a goal in mind that Audi and I share.  It’s been awesome. Well, I think that gets you up to speed here at the Scarpella household.  I’m off to cook dinner!