Part-Time-Stay-At-Home Mama

First, I'll start with an apology for not posting basically all summer.  Second, I tip my hat to those mommies out there who blog their hearts out, make home cooked meals every night, have a clean house and run a small business out of their homes.  You are the reasons I thought I could do it all.  Turns out I can't.  The blog took a backseat to all the summer and new school year activities.  However, I think I am back.

I'll start with a few highlights this of the summer.  Everett and I had an absolute blast!  Our days pretty much went as follows:
Mommy would get up super early for a run or to go to the gym.  The half marathon I am running is in 6 short weeks...AAAAAHHHHH!
E would wake up and we would eat breakfast.
I usually had a few errands to run so we would do that before lunch and nap.
While Everett would nap, I would do a few sewing projects.  I never like to sew when he is awake.  I don't want the time I could be spending with him to be used on my little hobby.
After nap we would go to Blackbob Bay.  Turns out this is pretty much a toddler's paradise.  From the fountains to the lazy river, we spent almost every afternoon soaking up the sun and having snacks by the kiddie pool.  Awesome.
We would usually head home around dinner time to eat with Daddy and then head outside to play t-ball.  Yes, we played t-ball {and still do} just about every single night.  The kid loves it.
Bath, Books, Bed.  Repeat.

Highlights of our summer.  In pictures.

Open gym at Matt Ross.  All he really did was try to play basketball.  We probably could have done that at home. 

Great Wolf Lodge.  This sweet picture is from story time at the clock tower. 

 At the lake with Nana and Grampie.

He LOVED the jet ski.  He actually rode it so much he fell asleep on it.  This is the kids who never falls asleep in the car.  I have a picture of it, but I will spare you the photo of my big white thigh.  Trust me, you're welcome.

This brings us up to the beginning of the school year.  Oh boy, where to begin?  Many of you know that my family had planned on me working a job share this school year.  What that looks like is I work Mondays, Wednesdays and every other Friday.  It is perfect because I like to work both because I love where I work and I like to feel like I am contributing financially to my family.  This also allows me to be home with Everett two or three days a week.  Super.  Great.  Plan approved.  Looks like everything is going to work out.  Yeah, not so much.  It is not something I will go into on a blog.  Just know that the beginning of this school year did not turn out the way it was supposed to and I literally started losing my hair and crying quite a bit.  There are many reasons for this, but just know that once again my family had to make a huge decision and think about my going back to full time teaching again.
Enter a lot of people who did a lot of work for me.  Most importantly my new job share partner and frankly my life savor Whitney!  I will be forever grateful to those people who pulled me out of a really crappy situation and quite frankly put me in a much better position than I would have been.  Whitney, if you're reading this you're a freaking rockstar and I love working with you.  You're the bomb girl.  To those of you that sent or said encouraging words through the mess that was the beginning of the year, thank you thank you thank you.  You're awesome and so sweet and put things in perspective for me and my family.  You're very good friends.

Whew, now that the school year is in full swing, things you can look forward to reading about are:

More cupcakes of the month!

More recipes!  I've been making a lot of fun stuff and depriving you of all its yumminess.

Fluffy Cakes!  Did you know this little bus-i-nass has been around for almost a year?  Look for a birthday giveaway!

My first FC's show!  I actually had a dry-run this summer, but this show is the real deal baby!  Stay tuned.

Last, but not least, HASH HOUSE UPDATES:)  This family is so ready for fall!  It's the best time in Kansas City!  Can't wait for the Plaza Art Fair, Helen Gold 10K, Holiday Mart, Halloween, soups, jeans, chili, comfort food, ahhhhhh.  I can see it now....