Rainy Daze!!

I have been enjoying school so much, but the rain is not fun. It makes me shiver right to the core. I need a heated jacket or something.  :) I love riding my bike on campus and even that is less fun when it rains..but still fun. I am so distracted right now, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I would rather be doing anything with Darin. I have to keep my head together until the end of the semester at least!! Its only a couple more months.. I can do it!  My teachers are seemingly bored now with what they are trying to teach us. I wish they would refresh themselves and shock thier teaching styles to be interesting again.. as I sit in Philosophy, blogging...

SO, Halloween is coming! yay!! I love holidays so much and more than holidays, I love decorating for holidays.. I am excited to decorate for Halloween. I will have to decorate two houses this year, and thats just great. Bailey wants to help me decorate her house and Ellen wants to help me decorate our house. It should be interesting what we come up with. I am sure we will have fun though, no matter what.

I also like cooking around the holidays.. oh trouble!! I like eating too.. lol... Have a happy day!

So, I cancelled Facebook. It was time to disconnect from the cyber-world and live in the real world. I will be blogging more often because of this choice, I am sure. I got my shoulder checked this morning after two weeks of pain from my competition with Darin's daughter, Riley, at the school carnival on the bungee run... I have a separated clavicle and tendonitis and a sprain in my shoulder. I knew I should have gone in earlier, but I have been so busy!! So now I get to ice the two areas every chance I get and take anti inflammatory medication to help with the shoulder situation. Teaching Zumba has been painful, but not impossible and hopefully it will just get better and not worse.

Life with Darin in it, is very fun and happy. I love that I can't stand to be away from him.. lol.. so funny. I feel like I am 16 again. We have done so many fun things in the three weeks we have known each other, I feel like I have had a crash course on him and given a crash course on myself as well. It is soooo much fun. His girls, Riley and Bailey, like when I come over and cook. Riley likes that I have clothes and shoes that she can borrow. Bailey likes to come to Zumba class with me and we dance all the way there and back. Ellen really likes Bailey because she is "so nice". I am glad Ellen recognizes kindness as a good quality. Aaron likes to hide in the closet in the master bedroom and play angry birds and Sebastian likes the backyard.. its so nice.. I like it too! It feels like this is what life should be like. A happy, kind, funny, dancey, place with good food and silly songs.. I LOVE this family composition. It has good dynamics and is very peaceful. Just the fact that Ellen likes to be there, is a huge indicator that I am choosing a good man and a great situation for my family and myself.

Oh Happy Days!!

We had the oportunity to take some family pictures last saturday and I am so pleased with how they turned out. I thought I would just share a little.. I am not sure if you notice a difference in my countenance, but to me.. it is night and day from 3 years ago. The family pictures I took right after my divorce are to the right of this entry.. in the blue shirt. You tell me if you can't see the difference! ;)  I am so happy.. and the dating strike is officially over.. The man of my dreams finally found me. Happy days are here.

BUSY!!!

Well, I feel busy. I am happy to be busy and be in school. I am happy to be teaching zumba 5 times a week still. I like the challenge of balancing school and work and kids (but I fear the dishes need some attention). Today was not my favorite day though. I was told by Sebastian's teacher that he should go back to kindergarten, which I have known all along, but now WWIII will erupt as Shawn is not on the same page. I am sure things will be fine, but right now it feels overwhelming. The kindergarten schedule is very parent involved.. and has no bus routes in the afternoon, so one of us would need to be there every afternoon (probably me). My bishop told me there would be days like this, so I am riding it out and trying to be patient so that the best things will come for my sweet son.

School is in full swing for me with papers due and labs assigned. I love it, but always feel like I could do more if I had more time, but I really don't. I just keep plugging along and I enjoy the amazing weather as I walk from class to class. My mom and I are both in school right now and we get to eat lunch together on Tues or Thurs or both sometimes. I enjoy so much having a connection with her that is so loving and fun!

I am making friends again which is great! I always remember the camp song, "make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold". It has been a very long ten months of friendless days. I enjoy being me again. I enjoy friends. I am still on a dating strike. I don't think I will regret taking time for myself. I am learning that there is so much to give when you fill your own bucket first. I am also learning that , that is hard to do... taking time for myself has never been a priority, until now. I have so much to keep me busy and slowing down is sometimes a big risk.. I may never get back up!! ;) Being older and being wiser are two different things. ha ha ha..

I enjoy my Spanish class and am getting the hang of learning a language, but it comes with its own challenges. I would like to take sign language next semester because it has always fascinated me. I like the idea of dancing with my hands as a way to communicate.. :)

So life is good.. Skies are blue, sun is shinning and I am going to be just fine. Rough days happen, but I will be able to face them and smile looking back because I will do what is best for me and my little family.. love to you all.. Kim

life is good, and full of change..

Off again on again is not my favorite thing, so I am off.. not dating, not in a relationship, just off. And I kinda like it. :) School is starting and life is busy and crazy and fun. I love my classes. I am studying for philosophy, archaeology, math and Spanish.. The kids start school on Tuesday and they are excited to go. I am excited to hear stories from their first day back at a new school by their dads new apartment. They can walk to and from school and they are excited for this new adventure. Ellen is starting middle school this year as a sixth grader, Aaron will be a fourth grader and Sebastian will be in first grade. They are so cute and growing up WAY TOO FAST!!


The last few years have been a huge challenge for me as some of you know, but I am happy to say that I am finally doing things the right way. It feels good and things are lining up for the good of my small family. We are being blessed so much that there is hardly room to accept all the blessings, both spiritual and temporal.. I love my children and I love my Heavenly Father..

Zumba is taking off!!

I am so busy dancing these days and I love it! I have a blog just for my schedule it is zumbaincaldwell.blogspot.com
Heres the link...
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fzumbaincaldwell.blogspot.com%2F&h=EAQAL4aLx

I am having so much fun and staying in serious shape!  Anyways.. go check it out!

New Phone... yes, again..

I had to get a new phone today because Cricket was acting horrible to me and I dont tollerate being treated badly.. no mas!! So I went next door to T-Mobile and explained my story to them and they were VERY helpful and kind to me. (thanks Dan for the suggestion) I like my new phone, it is an android and full of lots of time wasteing fun apps.. lol, like I have any time...But it is a nice phone, and yes, I did have to change my number yet again, but I put the new number in the info section on my facebook page.. make a note.  :) I will leave it there for a little while and then when I feel like it has been there long enough, I will take it down... so hurry.. it wont be there very long.. No Stalkers allowed!!  :)