Spilling Over

{This picture is a little old, but needed to be posted. He was so excited about these super long chains and as soon as I went to take his picture he just cried. It's cute in a sad kind of way.}

These are all the random things I've thought about posting, but never do. I guess you could call them my leftovers.

• FHE TEAM: We struggle with family home evenings and have a goal to become more consistent after hearing Elder Bednar's talk about FHE. I was thinking it would be awesome to get 4 families together to collaborate. A theme could be selected for the month along with 4 sub topics. Each family could prepare one amazing lesson on a sub topic using a simple lesson plan template. Then those amazing lesson could be rotated through out the month between each family. Making Monday night that much easier.
• I'm homesick for the classroom: After my Halloween visit, I can't stop thinking about teaching. I miss it. But, I can no longer imagine letting someone else take care of my baby. I'm thinking I'll volunteer so I can go for a short time get my teaching fix and still take care of Porter.
  
• Maybe it's a flaw but I'm not changing anytime soon: I am a little obsessive about Porter's therapy. Every spare moment I have goes to him and hopefully his progress. There was a two week period where I decide I wasn't balanced enough so I change things up and let Porter be on his own for a few hours each day while I cleaned, organized, ect. Well, he didn't meet his goals and didn't improve much. After that I decided I was being selfish and that he really is more important. The sacrifice is worth it if he keeps moving forward. Here's the thing though...somethings got to give because I still want a clean house and there are only so many hours in the night after Porter goes to sleep before I crash. *sigh* Wonder Woman...not so much, but I'm trying.
• Some see it, some don't:We're beginning to experience peoples reaction to Porter's down syndrome. Some people really have NO idea and then some pick up on it at first glance. These people have normally had some experience with people who have down syndrome. It's weird because to us he's our baby and perfect. It's hard to think of people not seeing his as the perfect little angel he is.
• Pilates for Dummies: I need to start exercising so this is what I'll be doing. Hopefully, I can find time for it. The gym is to expensive, it's to cold to take Porter outside now, and I've never done pilates before, thus I made my decision.

{Much To Cold}

• Changing Advisors: We're looking for a new financial advisor. The drop in the economy seems to have really hurt our old one, making him too desperate. Luckily for us we picked up on it and haven't taken his advise. However, we're to a point where we'd like to have someone to help educate us before we move forward. We've been meeting with several different advisors and it's not an easy decision to make. I want my old advisor back, he was so great...to bad!
  
• Infant tubs are dumb: I tried bathing Porter in his infant tub instead of the sink the other night. You can guess how I felt about it. I have so much more control when I bath him in the sink. Crawling over the edge of the tub to keep his head above water wasn't easy, but we got some cute pics.

Sorry, it's been over a week since my last post. I'll try to be better!