Has it really been almost a year since my last pots? That's ridiculous! And I'm sure I could come up with a million excuses ... the kid's schedule keeps us busy, mostly soccer but this year she is going year round with indoor soccer in the winter until spring soccer starts back up, the husbands work schedule and all the events he is involved in, Festival of Trees was a huge success again this year and of course he keeps busy with the President's Club events around the area, or my schedule kept us busy, what with studying for the state board exam for tax preparing - a 5 hour test??!!??!! that was insane.
At any rate, it's been almost a year and I'm not going to beat myself up about it. Things are good now and getting better by the day. I have a great staff, some of them very new, who are taking good care of the studio while I embark on my third tax season, but for this one I'm fully qualified to prepare taxes and have set a goal of 100 tax returns that I prepare on my own. That is a huge jump from the 12 I semi-prepared last year.
I start boot-camp tomorrow (yikes!) and I'm optimistically terrified. So if you see me in the next few days, just know that my face doesn't usually look like that, I'm just sore and cranky. And if you see me in the weeks after that, tell me what a good job I'm doing, because I'm sure I could use the encouragement.
Courtney continues to amaze me every day. She is very observant and kind, two great qualities in a kid who is not yet 7. She enjoys soccer more than anything else, and I don't even think she realizes she is the only girl on her team. She runs as fast if not faster than the boys and charges the ball in a way that makes me cringe, but I'm proud of her. She fell skinned her knee on the sidewalk a couple weeks ago, while doing an crazy jump of some sort, and the next day we had to design an outfit around her wound so she could show it off at school. She is quite a kid.
We are looking forward to a trip to Las Vegas later in the spring, as well as her 7th birthday party and an evening at the theater when Wicked the Musical comes to Eugene. Court knows all the words because we listen to the soundtrack in the car a lot, and she is probably more excited to see it than Mike and I.
It's going to be a great spring!
