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To begin with, I never thought I would say I was sick of winter, I forgot how Colorado's weather can be. One day its 66 degrees out and the next is 40 and snowing.... I wish it would just decide to be spring and stop snowing. On the plus side, almost every day is sunny with blue skies. It makes me want to take off my shoes and wonder through the green grass on a morning day. But thats not really the point of this blog so back to what I was going to talk about.

Kevin and I are loving life, we struggle sometimes being here away from friends, and I know he misses his family. Sometimes I wonder if we made the right decision moving her, and then I think of where it has braught us. I am finally working a job that I love, and that I want to go to each day. Working in the BEAM program offers many challenges, some harddays, and some great rewards. Here we have these kids that have been kicked out of other classes and other schools because of their behavior, kids with anger problems, mental disabilities like autism, and kids with an interesting but sad homelife. We are working with these kids on a daily basis, helping with social skills, anger managment, and schoolwork as well. We have managed to get one child almost completely integrated into her mainstream classroom (just checking in with her at the beginning of the day and at the end) another is going to 4 classes with his piers in the mainstream room, and another has 1 class we have integrated him into with another one starting in a week if we continue seeing good behavior. The last one just started with us so he can't be integrated yet but with another day of great behavior I might get to take him to recess with his class on Monday. Its great when you really get to see progression, it make you feel like you really are making a difference.

I also started my grad school program and am enjoying the online setting. It seems to me that I might be more successful with this setting then with the typical in class one. I have only been taking the first class so we will see after a little while how I really like it but so far its better then I expected. If it continues as is I think it will be very worth finishing to get my Masters in Special Education.

Kevin is doing well, he is working at Chase bank. He enjoys being a teller (at least a little bit). He has finally found a job he likes, at least doesn't hate it. Which makes for a little less stress around the house. He is still doing his gradclasses and trying to figure out what he wants to make as his career.

We moved into our own place, one day I will put up pictures for everyone to see. It is a two bedroom apartment, that is a block away from work. Life is great and I am loving it, mostly ;-)