"A little child enters your life and fills a special place in your heart. A place you never even knew was empty."

Monday, August 22, 2011

the office (starring Curtis)

Curt recently was promoted to a Wrigley Manager, leading a team of twelve sales reps. This position allows him to work from home two days a week, and work with his team throughout the Southeast during the rest of the week. Curt regularly leads and participates in video conferencing with his team, and with the National Wrigley team, and needs a quiet area for these calls. We were really excited but knew that our home provided working conditions not conducive to silence,nor productivity. We had to make some changes quickly! And right on cue as always, there was Curtis to the rescue! Curt's dad kindly volunteered to build an office in the garage, and we were so pleased with how it turned out.

This is the before picture.... (notice Kaye-Kaye leaning so that she wouldn't be in the picture, haha!)


And this is the after shot! The office is fully insulated, has a window looking out at the front yard, is carpeted, and has an a/c unit that Curt has to surprisingly keep on the lowest setting because he gets too cold. And we still can park our SUV inside the garage as always. We appreciate Curtis building this office because Curt really could not have worked inside with all of our noise.



And this was our contractor....we might hire him again because he offers really good rates!

Friday, August 19, 2011

mollie goes to preschool

And here it is, she's started preschool. This is Mollie posing with her teacher,
Mrs. Laura, in their classroom.


I felt like the paparazzi shooting this picture out of my car window, but I had to get a shot of her walking into school with her teacher. Her teacher is handing off the yummy sugar cookies that Kaye-Kaye made for the teacher and the director.



I'm really happy with our preschool. I heard about it from each of Tripp's fabulous therapists, and they all mentioned this one as the best in our area. The therapists visit all the centers and are in and out of the classrooms, and they know what is really going on in a center that sometimes a director doesn't always see. I trust their recommendations. So I toured about 8 centers in the area, and agreed that Mollie belonged at this preschool. It took us many months to get an enrollment spot, and even had to be put on a waiting list at open registration, but a spot opened up and here we are! Mom and Dad are happy and she's all smiles when she's off to school!