I swallowed my tooth

It's true. There I was sitting eating a lovely black bean and cheddar cheese quesadilla on rice tortilla when I noticed my artificial tooth that has been a dear friend of mine for over 15 years now was missing. It was nowhere to be found. A few weeks ago the tooth part became disconnected (okay it broke) from the retainer part and I have been wearing it by carefully placing the tooth (which has a small metal stick attached to it) on top of the retainer and then putting it in my mouth. A real trick! But alas, it is gone-lost to my digestive system. I'm hoping that it doesn't get lodged somewhere in my digestive system. Please tell me that can't happen. Eric thinks I should try to recover it (don't think about that too much) but I think it is time to let go. He's been a good tooth but he's gone now. Tomorrow I must find a dentist who will agree to make me another flipper and not a bridge or an implant (very spendy). sigh.....

It's Official the once Yearbook Editor is now the Yearbook Adviser

It is official. I'm now the proud adviser of over 20 eager students who in the course of the next 8 months will create a 56-page full-color yearbook. I'm pretty sure that I have bitten off far more than I will want to chew but I have a passion for yearbooks (i'm weird) and the kids are just so darn excited about the whole thing! This will be the first year that Walden School has a "real" yearbook. We have the challenge of creating something meaningful for 275 students Kindergarten through 12th grade. I have already vetoed some less than stellar ideas (bubble theme?) but I have been amazed at the creativity my students have shown already in their attempts to come up with a theme and book cover. I can't wait to see what they come up with!

Of Monticello, babies and the greyhound station

It has been a long time since I posted on the blog. I have been in Virginia for the last week helping Becca and Mike move with their newborn. I have had a really good time and it has been a learning experience for me. I have always wanted to visit the American South and Virginia is definitely south of the Mason-Dixon line. Due to dietary restrictions I have had no fried chicken or chitlings but I have had a lot of pepsi which is really popular here. I have been called ma'am and today at the CVC pharmacy an old woman blessed me and jack. I'm not kidding it was really creepy. The greyhound station was um...interesting perhaps a preview to what tomorrow holds! I get to ride greyhound from Charlottesville to Union Station in DC then take the metro to Rosslyn metro station then take a metro bus to Dulles Airport and then fly to Atlanta then to Salt Lake. 15 hours. Definitely not a record for me but pretty long for domestic travel. I'm kind of sickly excited for the adventure. Today I went to Monticello. It was an interesting experience. I had some inner ethical rumblings that I will have to write about later. I don't know what it is about old southern ladies but they really don't agree with me. The old lady giving the tour got really mad at me when becca's cell phone (I borrowed it so when I got lost I could call-which did indeed happen) rang (it was becca saying they didn't need me to pick up salt). The tour guide informed I would have to leave the tour if I was going to be on the phone. I felt compelled to explain myself--I had tried to turn it off but couldn't figure it out--but alas it wasn't a scheduled pause in her annoying memorized lines so I didn't get the chance. Well, it is late and I should go to bed. I've had a great time here. Jack is an amazingly good baby. Very happy and very healthy. Becca and Mike are fantastic parents--very calm and willing to approach parenthood with a sense of humor (always a plus). They are going to do great!

Adoption

Dear Friends and Family,

We feel like it is time we update our friends and family concerning our adoption situation. We are still working with LDS Family Services and our profile has been shown to prospective Birth Parents several times. We have also explored other options—Utah State DCFS and international adoption. Due to health conditions that Eric and I are both medicated for, we do not qualify for the majority of international programs. We are still open to a child in state custody should the right child come along. We appreciate all the care and concern we have received from friends and family and feel confident that the Lord has plans we just don’t know about yet!
Should you come into contact with a potential birth parent or become aware of a potential please feel free to contact us. Feel free to give out our phone number, email addresses etc. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! The following is the web address where you can access our profile with LDS Family Services:

http://www.providentliving.org/ses/birthmother/searchprofiles/0,12268,2133-1,00.html

then search for the profile: EricandSharon

Love,

Eric, Sharon & Cedar

New Blog Background

SO, I decided to spruce up the old blog and give it a new template. I was clever enough to find this swanky snail one online (no idea why I picked this one, I just like the snail) but when I changed over it deleted my pics. So, I guess it is high time I got some new ones anyway. So, new pictures forthcoming.

Of Audits, sleep deprivation and other matters

So, I survived audit week. For those of you who don't know (and I'm sure don't care to know) all schools have to undergo and independent audit every year. It is painstaking two-day process preceded by meticulous preparation and a lot of lost sleep and stress. We have always done very well and this year was no exception but the whole concept of an audit causes me to twitch and makes me really need more caffeine. Well, all I want to say is that we survived, we did well and I'm not doing any work until Monday morning. I feel like I'm in college again and I just finished my last final. YIpppeeeeee!

4th of July festivities!

So, we are back from Mexico. It was a good, productive trip and we had a great time but it is nice to be home. Cedar really struggled with the lack of structure the last week in Mexico but he is doing much better now that we are home. We have had a lot of fun the last few days celebrating the 4th. We promised Cedar we would buy lots of fireworks this year but we got back and realized we can't do fireworks at our house. We are in a restricted fire zone (totally understandable--the mountain is so brown it's scary) so we did all our fireworks with our good friends the Fredericksons. Cedar had so much fun watching the fireworks with 7-year-old Bryant. Everytime we set one off the two boys would run around in circles screaming. It was pretty cute. On the fourth we missed the parade (I took benadryl the night before for some bad mosquito bites!) but we got to go to a reptile show. Cedar loved it! That afternoon the Fredericksons set up a giant slip and slide at the park. Cedar's shorts were too big and they kept falling down but he loved it! Last night we watched the Stadium of Fire fireworks from the lawn in front of the Marriott Center. It has been a great holiday weekend. Some parts of the Fourth of July are nauseating to me (I don't dress my child in red white and blue--I just can't do it) but I really do love the holiday. Now it's back to work. 12 days til my audit and counting. If only accountants had a sense of humor...........