Mondays

Three school years ago I changed jobs and went from teaching 4th grade students to teaching visually impaired preschoolers. When I took the preschool job my hours went from full time and then some to a more part time schedule and I now have every Monday off. I love my Mondays off with the kids! We go to the mall play land, to Barnes and Noble for story time, to the park, grocery shopping, to eat lunch with Eric at his work, to the zoo, really anything I can think of.

Today we met my dad for lunch at Chipotle for his birthday and then went over to the mall play land. Now that Josh is pulling himself up to a stand and cruising around on things he enjoyed playing more than ever before. Emma quickly made friends with a few other little girls and played tag, even though in this version of tag they all stood around talking to each other but she assured me a number of times they were in fact playing tag.






After seeing this,


I decided it was time for naps. When the kids woke up we went outside and Emma played across the street with neighbor friends and Josh crawled around on the driveway trying to sneak rocks into his mouth (his new favorite food). Eric came home a bit later and we ended the day by having dinner together and letting the kids play in the bathtub. It was a great day and I can't wait until next Monday.