has been changing a lot lately! Yes, my poor blog has been neglected but honestly, EXHAUSTED has been the only word that comes to mind when I think back on the last couple of weeks! I began my new job as the Meeker County Truancy Specialist and I. LOVE. IT. :) It has been exhausting, challenging, fun, and exciting since day one. I love having a job that I can look forward to going to each day, it makes SUCH a difference and my anxiety levels have gone wayyyyy down! Okay, what else.... Halloween is coming up and I have a little Spiderman crawling on the walls over here. Okay, not literally but he would if he could. I can't count how many times he's asked if he can try on his costume because he "woves having biiiigg musows" (we are still working on the LLLLLLLLLL sounds!) He also had his kindergarten screening this past week and I may or may not have been the lame mom who teared up the whole time. True story. Oh and also, when I tucked him in to bed not long ago I reminded him that he's a big boy and he needs to sleep in his own bed (sometimes he sneaks in our bed) and his response was "I will mom, unless that bear comes back outside my window again" ----ummmmmmm?? Okay? Sick of hearing about Ryder yet?? Too bad, my blog :)
I'm sad to say that my biggest guilty pleasure ended yesterday. Okay, so I love Teen Mom. Sometimes I like to pretend that Maci and I are secretely best friends (except that I really wouldn't be a good friend to her because I would probably try to sleep with both Kyle AND Ryan....Yum :)) and I also cringe and want to throw things at the TV everytime Amber goes crazy. As a mandated reporter I find myself questioning how she even has a child sometimes....A little harsh?? Oh well. Anyways, it's over and life sucks once again.
The weather has been fabulous lately and I love it! Baking has started in full force and am hoping ot whip out some apple pies this weekend if I get to the orchard. I made the pie crusts last week but just haven't found time to do anything with them yet so in the freezer they sit. I did, however, just make granola bars and they were quite tasty if I do say so myself! They are Ryder's favoooorrriiiteee snack and they're super healthy so I'm all about it. I've also been able to saddle up and ride Starr quite a bit lately although I've been worried about her so I'm going to stay off of her for a while. She recently started losing weight, and quite a bit of it. Not a good sign for a horse. She seems to have her appetite back now, which is a good thing so we've just been increasing her hay/oats lately to put some weight on her before winter comes. Sadly, she's also been a little 'stumbly' lately which is also not a good sign--poor girl. Anyways, she is up to date with all her shots, has been dewormed recently,and the ferrier was just out this week so at this point I guess we just wait and hope that things start to improve... I have faith in her, she's just too sweet...
Lately in my free time I've been editing and playing around with some pictures from my friend Elicia's wedding that I was able to take for her. I got to play photographer for a day and it was so much fun (with the help of Max during some of the wedding party photos -- I LOVE photography and am hoping to one day make a dark room in our basement and kick it old school with an old 35mm film camera and develop my own film. Film photography was my favorite class in college at Montana State and I haven't done it since.... My Nikon is fun to play with as well but nothing beats the classic b&w film....
It's MEA this week so that means a 4 day weekend for this girl! I have one quick court hearing tomorrow for a kid I work with that shouldn't last too long and other than that, Ryder and I are going to head to willmar for lunch with some old coworkers and then relax all day! Gosh my blogs get long lately...
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