May has arrived, and it feels like early Fall, especially in the mornings. I have been working lately, part-time. I am scheduled to work a few more days this week, and at a festival. In the meantime, I am looking for something else where the hours are a lot steadier and I can get a bigger paycheck.
I’m tired of going between wearing a winter coat in the morning, only to shed it by the afternoon. At night, I’m turning on a space heater and snuggling under a blanket with Zora, even though she takes over the whole bed with her stuffed animals, and I have one sliver of a bed to sleep on. Soon, she will want a cat or three. I can’t wait to move out of this studio apartment and into a bigger one. I’ll discuss that when it gets closer to us moving.
With May, Zora’s school year is winding down. She had an incident on a field trip, and now, I have to go with her on the next one. Luckily for her, it’s just this one. She can’t handle losing well or not getting it right the first time. It’s a daily struggle, and she gets it on most days, other days I question if she actually gets it or just having outbursts for attention. She’ll be out of school the first week of June and have summer camp later in the month. I did sign her up for after school, if I land that job where I can get off at a decent time, and she doesn’t have to go to after school.
I hope it warms up soon, because I want to go back to filming outside again. I will pre-film some things to have ready and marked unlisted until I’m ready for the video(s) to go live. I may do a month-long challenge before the big ones start later in the year. I haven’t decided yet whether I will do the challenge in June, July, or August. Either way, I need to bring in some money as a second source of income.
I guess that’s it for now. Although it’s Mother’s Day today, I’m doing all of the cooking and cleaning. Zora may be seven, but I want to start her doing some age-appropriate chores around here. She already puts things in the garbage, I take out the garbage. So far, she can put her shoes on the shoe rack (I need another one for the shoes I wear regularly) and hang up her clothes that she’s not wearing. She has already tried to help me with the laundry and the dishes. I’ll show her as time marches on. I want her to be self-sufficient, socially and emotionally intelligent. She has it down academically; she wants to learn to play soccer and do ballet. I’ll see you in the next post!
