It's been a little bit since I've been around, but things have been a tiny bit crazy.
I have a new part time special education teaching job that is only for this year, but I'm working three days a week from 8:45 to 2:15 (one day until 3:15), which means I get to drop off and pick up the kid at school most days, which is less money to daycare - about $20 less a week! And I'm getting paid hourly at a teacher wage.
I don't have any benefits, but I didn't have benefits subbing either.
It also means that I can sub Mondays and Fridays if I want to - and sometimes I want to, and sometimes I'd like to set Mondays on fire, but it's nice to have the option to bring in a little more money every week.
The divorce drags on and on, and my lawyer is awesome but expensive. I just want to be DONE.
Voldemort and I are making most of our holiday gifts this year.
Voldemort made
I'm making dry erase placemats for V and the cousins as well, which I hope they'll like.
The sisters are getting homemade clove lip balm - my SIL loved the Burt's Bees clove balm, but they aren't making that anymore, so I found a recipe and played with it a bit, and I think I got pretty close!
I also have vanilla brewing for the sister who bakes, and I took an extra vanilla bean and decided to make some vanilla sugar while I was at it.
My dad will get cookies, and my sister is getting my mom a crockpot, so I'm going to get her a crockpot cookbook to go with it.
And that's pretty much everybody - there are still some bought things that I'm getting for the kid - and I'm having no luck finding a decent pair of roller skates used, so I might have to go new for those - but mostly, gifts are taken care of!
December 10th, 2015 at 10:57 am 1449745033
December 10th, 2015 at 06:00 pm 1449770421
Sorry the divorce is stringing along. As you said, you are fortunate to have a good lawyer though.