Vacation, Promotion and back to school Commotion!

We have been busy bees around here so I have not had much time to update...

First the summer vacation!

We took an amazing trip though South Dakota! Stops included:

Sioux Falls - Where we went to Falls Park and enjoyed the beautiful falls in the city.

Rapid City - Where we experienced great views at the Badlands, Bear Country, Reptile Garden and stayed at the amazing - Cambria!

Deadwood/Custer - Mount Rushmore, plus the Cosmos and the Beautiful Wonderland Cave

Hot Springs - EVANS PLUNGE!!

It was such a wonderful getaway! Which is always nice when you live in such a busy city and have a soon to be high schooler and soon to be third grader!

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Now a quick callout...over the last two months I have spent time interviewing for the Lead Manger role in my company and after 4 long and very difficult interviews.....

I WAS OFFERED THE POSITION!

This was great news! Everyone has been so very supportive in my close friends and family circle. With great success comes upsets as well though, as you find those few that are not supportive and instead try to ruin your happiness. I unfortunately have some family that are in the opposing stands for my life. I agree people should have their own opinions but why put down others to support your cause...I will never know. In my book "All you need is love, love. Love is all you need." But that doesn't seem to always be possible with people that always find a way to bully others and be so judgmental - drowning others in hateful words and beliefs. I guess that comes with life though and no matter how old you get you will still have to deal with those not ready to own up to being responsible adults, but really what can you do...

Back on track the last callout of course my husband!! He was and still is my #1 fan, completely supportive and at times I think he truly has more faith in me then I do in myself. It's great when you have that one person who gives you the love and support you need.

So on to back to school commotion!

As mentioned my squishies are going back to school next week..well really it's only 1 day worth of school next week and then they start their "regularly scheduled programs" the week after. So we have been busy with back to school supplies, uniforms and high school planning.

I volunteered last weekend at the high school book sale which was interesting. I thought since this is a private school the volunteer parents would be much more customer service oriented, since you know we're all "buying books" which you do not have to do at public school. Well they were fairly lazy, sitting around talking amongst one another and texting, so me and my partner put them to shame.

I worked "pre-sales" which really translates to get everything organized and ready for checkout...and when I say everything I mean everything. Take the books, cut the slips, count the books and make sure the total matches the number of slips, take the retreat form and cut that and any art forms, write "new" and "used" totals on the back of the last slips, box the books and send the parents on their way to the cashier...I bet you'll never guess what the cashier does....Totals my slips and takes a check.

Next year I need to get in good with the planner.

So now we're back to where we started...vacation, promotion and commotion!