Whew!

After a crazy-busy week I finally feel human again- just in time to start another week! Last week had plenty going on though. Besides my normal work schedule the week also found us a large writing project- 45 500-word articles in 5 days. It more or less eliminated any free time last week, although the pay is worth it since the money from this ongoing article writing is going to help us finally pay off our air conditioner (one of our goals for the year). It isn't always that busy- this week was a last-minute project that needed to get done quickly because someone else bailed out. I don't really mind the work, it is just hard some weeks to fit it all in. And of course the last thing I feel like doing amidst a massive writing project is sitting down to blog.

We also found out late this past week that the Family Cost Participation (FCP) is going to be delayed until at least May '10. This is good news, good news, and yet irritating at the same time. Of course it is great news for our families who were going to have to reduce or eliminate their services because they couldn't afford to pay. It gets tricky, though, because we were already picking up new kids to replace the ones we were anticipating losing on March 1. That could leave us with very full schedules/caseloads for a few weeks until we get it all sorted out again. Leave it to the state to wait till the last minute to decide they couldn't pull it all off that quickly.

Thankfully after a busy week we had a good weekend. Friday was a birthday party for a friend. After all of the adults left we played Apples to Apples. Very random as far as who wins, but a good party game since you can play and socialize and its very quick to teach.