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February 20, 2004

Here we are entering the last week of February, and soon it will be March month, the month of Spring's official arrival. As much as I love winter, I love Spring even more, and after getting a taste of the milder weather that is to come today, I am patiently awaiting the warmer days that are to come.

Exciting Travel News
I would like to start on a happy note, I will be celebrating the first day of Spring in a much warmer climate. I might even get confused and think it is summer. My sister in law works for a pharmeceutical company, and they are giving her an all expense paid trip for two to Pheonix, and she is taking me. My first ever week away from my family. I am terribly excited and a little guilty, and I know I will miss William tremendously, but it is going to be F-U-N. We will be staying at a resort and spa, and getting a spa package and everything. And of course the best part, I will ge seeing Jeanette. I go nine years without a visit, and now we will be seeing each other twice in one year. I will also be spending a few days in Montreal by myself before the trip to Arizona. I don't think I am going to know what to do with all this free time. And then, believe it or not, I will be returning to Montreal two weeks later with Will and William, to spend Easter with his family. I have a busy couple of weeks to look forward to that is for sure, especially for someone who dosn't usually get out much.

Not so Busy Days

I have had a lot of time to do an awful lot of thinking lately. some days it alomst consumes me, and I find myself getting more easily frustrated with William as a result of it. I would love nothing more than to be a stay at home mom. However, our finances do not allow for this. As many of you know I have been working as a substitute teacher, which allows me time for both, work and William. Up to now I have been very happy with this arrangement, however lately I am not so sure. I love to teach, every aspect of it. And I have a Master degree and would like nothing more than to work as a school principal when my children are all in school. However, I wonder if that day will ever come. With a lack of experience, references and a terrible nervousness for interviews I sometimes doubt my ability to GET a job, even though I know I could DO an excellent job. However that is in the future. My other problem right now is that I have only had 2 days of work since Christmas and that has really been bothering me. I need to get enough work so I can get a one year maternity leave should I become pregnant in the near future, so I worry about this. And also it plagues my mind as to why I am not wokring. IS there a shortage of work? or Is it just me? I have decided that I will not dwell on this and just enjoy all my time home with sweet William.

On another work realted subject I have also been thinking about starting a home based preschool. Probably aiming for 2 2 day sessions with about 6 children per session, for a total of 12 hours a week. I am seriously considerin this for September as there are waiting lists for preschools here, and WIlliam could also be a part of this. I am currently doing research in this, but would greatly appreciate any other feedback I could get. For example - what would you look for in a home preschool. DO you think it could work if there was a small baby in the picture?
I have also thought about home day care, but after reading about Jessica's experience on moms today, and how she discovered it wasn't for her, I am unsure that this would be fore me as well. I do think that I would thouroughly enjoy working with 3 and 4 year olds in my home. The benefit being that I could set the session hours, and could take all the same holidays as the public schools. And I would still be a teacher. My vision includes expanding to a seperate building in the future (or perhaps moving it inot our basement apartment) with the possibility of hiring another individual. But that's for much further down the road. Right now I just want to start small.

I just realized that I haven't even mentioned William, but he is now awake from his quiet time (I don't think he was ever asleep - he naps only every second day now). But there will be another update on him soon.

Dawn