First week of normal!

Today is Monday again, and I'm hoping -- truly hoping -- I'm back to a week of NORMAL! I was out on vacation (which I mostly used to spring clean) two weeks ago, came back last Monday and was sick as a dog by Monday night, and was out Tuesday/Wednesday, had a special event Thursday and played catch up like mad on Friday.

In the midst of all of that, I'm happy to announce -- I landed a new job! I have been in the position I'm in now since September of 2007. Those of you who have followed this blog from the beginning know that this blog started in September of 2007 as well. I was in training (transitioning from another department) for my current job starting in July 2007, officially started on September 3rd and on September 16th, found out I was pregnant with Angelica. (I already told Scott -- let's NOT keep that tradition going. Haha.) The team I work on now has truly been like a second family to me so I am sad to be leaving them, but I am also THRILLED about my new position.

So what will I be doing? I am staying with the same company but will now be an SEO Specialist. I graduated in Dec. 2009 (salutatorian! yay me!) with my master's in Internet Marketing, so this is a huge step  in the right direction career-wise and I am really, really excited to see where things go from here. I don't know for sure when the new position starts -- details are still being worked out -- but it will be within the next couple of weeks. So I need a week of normal in between so I can use the calm to get everything squared away.

Now for a weekend recap...

Friday and Saturday night we went through a Journey to Membership workshop at our church. I mentioned back in January that one of my resolutions this year was to get more involved in the church and seek out membership at some point, and both Scott and I felt ready to make that leap. Our church (not a Christian church -- we are Unitarian Universalists so it is a UU church) asks that people who want to be members go through this workshop because they don't want anyone to go into membership blindly. It wasn't at all a sales presentation and the workshop isn't an obligation to join. It really just went over the history of the faith, the history of our particular church, the social commitments the church makes to the community, and what it really means to be a member.

While we did that, Angelica had a sleepover with Rylie. It's only the 2nd time she's slept overnight somewhere, but we really felt at ease knowing that LeeAnn and Brian were in charge. Outside of family, they're one of the few couples we'd trust with our kid -- and Angelica absolutely adores Rylie and was psyched about this sleepover all week. Friday when I picked her up, her teacher said, "Let me guess -- she's going to Rylie's house?" Yep. She talked everyone's ear off about it. LeeAnn wrote a recap of their fun slumber party on her blog. (Thanks again LeeAnn for hosting such a fun sleepover -- Angelica has been talking about it ever since!)

After the meeting at church, Scott and I celebrated our ten year dating anniversary on Friday night and took advantage of having a kid-free evening to go out to dinner and celebrate. I can't believe it's been a decade since our first date. 

Sunday was a fairly normal day. We went to church (again -- we were there every day this weekend) and I volunteered in the nursery while Scott went to services. Sunday night my niece and nephew came to hang out with us, which Angelica was also super excited about. She LOVES her cousins!

Tomorrow I'll probably do my first weight-loss post in a few weeks. It is NOT going to be good...but more on that tomorrow.