Practice for school

Ok, so my oldest daughter is starting kindergarten this year! Yay! Very exciting, but I am a little nervous about not getting her ready for shcool in time, getting all the supplies that she needs, ect...
So, I will be working this week at IACS. Jillian is going to the states for a week. I am going to use this time to practice getting the girls up and ready for school. Last week I took their nap time away and started to get them in bed by eight, so far, so good.

The problem is getting up on time and being ready by the time it is time to leave the house. Isabelle is no problem, she is always the first one to wake up. She gets up and gets dressed before anybody. Kaitlyn on the other hand, will stay in bed for about an hour after she wakes up and then takes her pillow and blanket down stairs to lay on the couch! Well, my friend will be watching them on Mon and Tue because Shaughn works night shifts and sleeps during the day. He's off for the rest of the week so he'll be home with the girls. Monday we did good, they were dressed and ready to go 20min early, so that was good.
I started to look into chores for kids and different charts. I decided that making them do chores is a good way to get them in a schedule and teach them responsability. I learned to start out small and then add chores as time goes by, so I printed a chart from http://www.freeprintablebehaviorcharts.com/ and started out with three "chores" for each of the girls: Teeth brushing, getting dressed, and washing hands. I decided those are the most important things they can do for themselves. Later, I will add getting their clothes ready the day before, picking up their toys and putting their shoes away as soon as they come in the house. The plan is for them to color in the square for the day and chore if they did it , at the end of the week if they did all their chores, then they will get a treat, weather it is going out for ice cream or pick out a small toy. At the end of the month if they did all their chores, then they get a trip to the disney store to pick out a toy.
Hopefully this works out and gets them into a good routine. I shall post how it goes later! Ciao!

Long time, no write

Ok, so I completely forgot about this blog for a couple of months! Let see, what have I been up to? Well, right now I have a T O O T H A C H E!!! So, this is how it works when you are in the army and overseas, the dental clinic on post can only see Soldiers right now because there are so many of them, so, family members have to go off base to an italian dentist. Also, you need to sign up for a different dental plan. Well, I have a toothache, I called the emergency dentist on post and he said to take some motrin and get some rest. (OK) And to go to sick-call in the morning. (Sick-call means certain time for walk-ins) So I did. I waited for almost three hours so that the dentist could tell me that I need a root canal, and I have to go off post to get it done. I go to sign up for the tricare dental plan and they say that it will not be effective until the 1st of October! So basically if I go right now to the dentist off post I have to pay out of pocket.

Anyway, I have been really into my photography, I love photography! My hubby bought me a Nikon D60 and I love it! I have an etsy shop online, where people sell handmade stuff. I sell prints of photographs that I have taken here in Italy. I also quit my full time job and only work as on-call, and I deliver the paper in villaggio on the weekends.

Summer is going by so fast! I had three different visitors from the states this summer. My highschool friend, Melissa, came for a week. We went to Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence, Soave, and Pisa. All in ONE week! It was crazy. Then I had one of my best friends, Janice and her cousin, Lisandra, come visit. They were here for a few weeks. I had alot of fun with them. I really miss Janice. Last I had my family, my mom, dad, and sister visit. they were also here for a few weeks. We had so much fun! We went camping around Pisa and I went to Rome and saw my first Tuscan sunflower field, it was great.