Yes, I Am Still Here

Wow, five years!?!?! How has it been FIVE years since my last post? I am an awful, terrible, despicable blogger. I should be imprisoned and forever banned from the internet for denying my 2 followers my golden nuggets of thought and wisdom! (Hi mom). Anyway, now that THAT is finally out of the way, we can move on. What have I been doing for 1/2 a decade? Well, I've been doing life. The last time I posted I had a 2 year old and a baby. Now my baby is 5...almost 6. My 2 year old is in the second grade. Life is moving along. No more diapers (boo...that's right it makes me sad). We still have blankies, thank goodness! Our dog Oscar who I posted about is now over the rainbow bridge. Even though he was "just a dog," I miss him something terrible. Especially his ability to clean up little crumbs from my floor. Yes, in five years, life has changed...it has also stayed the same. I am here, life is good and I am blessed.

I landed my dream job of teaching voice lessons at a local arts school. I LOVE it! Yes it's work. It's challenging, but I love every second. I still get to be a stay at home mommy because my outside job is only for 15 hours a week. I actually get the best of both worlds. I have my two biological children, then I have my many students. I LOVE them! I care about their future! They are a part of the tapestry of my life. I get the extreme privilege of teaching my students an art that I am passionate about. They mostly appreciate it. I get great fulfillment from it. Perhaps as the girls get older I will expand to a collegiate level of teaching. I don't know...we'll see.

I am also singing again...like professionally, and getting paid and stuff. That's pretty great as well!

The past 5 years have been full of trials, triumphs, joy and sadness. I lost my grandma, which was hard. I will talk about that more in another entry. I'm still here...absorbing it all. Singing through life, enjoying my husband and my kids...all of them. It's an adventure as I look back on it. Some would say my life is mundane. Maybe I would even claim a mundane existence. But as I look at it through my computer screen, it really IS a great adventure.

There is more to come...