Y'all or Ya'll?

Growing up in the south I always thought you spelled ya'll like ya'll! It wasn't until I moved north (to Vancouver) that I learned that other people spell it as y'all. Frankly I think it's a southern word..isn't it?! So of course I'm going to stick with the spelling as ya'll :) How do you spell it?

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's back to work I go

At the end of March my year long maternity leave comes to an end. I am extremely sad about this. Jeff and I have always said we would NEVER put Sophia into daycare. Nothing against daycare it's just not the right place for our child. However, I do have to return to work. We have some big goals for '09..the biggest being that we plan to purchase a house in Hot Springs, AR in the fall. Our plan is to spend 6 months in Vancouver and 6 months in Hot Springs. As you can imagine, owning two homes in two different countries takes a lot of money! Before Sophia I was working full time with Jeff. I took care of the books, did some advertising for one of our clients at the time and did a lot of the odd jobs around the office. I intend to go back and help with the books, I just have no idea how I'm going to do it and keep Sophia at the same time. Since we need my full salary I've got to find a creative way to do that full time and be mommy. I've thought of working part time and then finding a way (from home) to make up the other half of my salary. I have a few thoughts bouncing around but nothing set in stone. Obviously, Jeff and I will need to discuss this matter more and I'll need to do some praying and soul searching.

2009

I keep telling myself I'll eventually find the inspiration to do something with this blog. I have had it since 2007 and have YET to do anything with it...hopefully this will be the year that all changes! We have some big things happening in 2009 and I should be sure to document them all here.

Right now Sophia is teething (the two uppers) so it's been little sleep and lots of fuss. Poor girl. I've been trying the Hylands Teething Gel (it's homeopathic) but honestly I don't think it works..I don't think any of them work really. I did read good things about their teething tablets but I've yet to find them.

Hopefully she gets through this soon. I hate seeing her in pain.

Here she is showing off her new bottom teeth (would you look at that face!) that came in early December: