Autumn's here!

I've been working at my new job for a little over a month now.  The two boys and I have settled into a routine and I have fun finding new things to do with them that they'll enjoy.  A few days ago I taught them how to play 500 with a whistle football.  I'm going to bring my Charlie Brown Halloween movie in 2 weeks and carve a pumpkin with them.  They've never had the opportunity to touch the inside of a pumpkin before!  It's awesome being there for any first experience.

Yasmin tolerating my boys and the neighbors as they put grass on her

Most weekends are devoted to St John lately because it's a busy time of year for induction coordinator.  I'm also on a trainers course that teaches you how to teach including the different styles of learning and assessment.  I love the content.  There's lots of homework to do during the week for it, though.  Luckily I have a few hours in the middle of the day during the week between school drop off and when the little one gets out of pre-school to do any work.

Tim's first day of med school!

Tim's hospital

Tim's lunchbox

Tim is loving med school!  Every other Thursday I take Yaz to work with me because Tim is on clinical placement.  He goes to a hospital or clinic and gets to practice his skills on patients under the doctor's supervision.  His other days are full of lectures, discussion groups, and sometimes labs.  The school seems nice enough about Yasmin.  If Tim needs to go into a lab a member of staff doggysits.  Tim says that they hurl new information at the students in rapid succession and he's trying to take in as much as possible by going over the slides again at home and looking up any material mentioned.  It means that I get to help with the research.  It's kind of fun, actually.

Yasmin got a blood test on Monday and found that she's clean and healthy.  She has pancreatitis we found out.  It's a lifelong condition, but she only needs medicine when it flares up.  She's back to normal now.  She likes coming to work with me occasionally, but she's not crazy about the kids.  I think the kids would be better off with a hyper terrier.  They keep trying to put sticks in Yasmin's face hoping she'll take it or tug it with them.  She just wants to be left alone with her sticks, though.  The employers (parents) like Yasmin, though.  They even offered to doggysit if we ever need it.

Our new house is great, but constantly messy at the moment.  Everything still isn't moved in.  I have a week off of work the week of Halloween so I'm hoping to make the house more of a home then.  It's really cool, though.  We aren't used to having so much space to the 3 of us.