New House and the Kids are Back!

Hello Everyone,

There is so much going on I don't know where to begin. As many of you know I recently moved to a house near Lakeshore. Its excellent because its only a few blocks from the water and when I ride the streetcar on my way to work I can look out over the lake. It's beautiful. Maybe I will take some pictures of it for you. So we have the two top floors of a house all to ourselves, its great. Its all newly renovated and has lots of big windows. Chalak moves in this weekend and Uncle Stephen is helping me move the rest of my stuff too. I realized when I was moving that I could start my own library. I had 11 boxes of books!! How insane is that? They aren't on the many bookshelves yet but they will be soon.

We found a lot of the furniture we needed for free on websites like craigslist and freecycle. The only thing we haven't recieved yet (because we're waiting for people to move) is our new couch. So I'm siting on the floor right now. :)

In other news. It was my first week of After School Program this week. It's always nice to have the kiddies back in the building and they are as entertaining as ever. The stations are working beautifully and the points system really gets them working hard. I have 2 guys volunteering this year who used to be kids in the program themselves and its really amazing to see them working with the boys helping them with their homework and their stations, and playing ball of course.

I've decided for my next newsletter I'm going to write about "if you could see what I see". I want to tell you some stories of things I see every day that most people would never know about. I'm pretty excited about it so hopefully it will turn out ok.

I think that is all for today, I need to go plan dinner for the kids for tonight.

Thanks for reading,

BElla