Not much has happened in the last several weeks. School is going great for both kids. Jayden is doing great with his reading, he gets better every day. Emma is finally liking her teachers and has fun, no more crying! She even tells all the teachers and helpers there that she isn't crying anymore! They all think she is precious and love telling me stories about her. I am looking forward to the holidays and some time off of work. Kelly came to me just the other day and told me I needed to be watching my annual leave because I can only accrue so many hours before they stop adding up. So basically, I need to take time off work! Yes! No arguments there! I have a new snake baby added to the family last month. She was a surprise from Nick. I picked her out and all that kind of stuff, but he surprised me one morning by just telling me I could have a Hognose! When I asked him about it later, he said he felt bad about our date I was trying to plan for us. I could not find a babysitter so we could go just for fun to a reptile show in Springfield. I asked several friends, posted on our church group and finally posted 3 separate times on my personal Facebook page with a plea for help. No one was able to help us. It was difficult to accept that everyone is just busy sometimes and it put me in a sour mood. I shouldn't have gotten upset, but I did. Anyways, Nick said he wanted to still go and just take the kids with us. I wasn't really in the mood to chase them around the place while trying to enjoy the show, but we went ahead and went. We ended up having a good time and I got my little girl Western Hognose snake I named Juliet. She's a doll and hisses at me every time I pick her up. She thinks she's big and bad, so adorable!! We are all looking forward to Halloween this week. Jayden is going as Batman and Emma is going as Rapunzel. We'll see if she actually wears the long hair wig we got to go with the costume. It'll be so cute if she does! Halloween is all Jayden has been talking about for the last month and a half. He is so excited.