And, how about some great news? I got an email from Lisa (my principal) this morning saying that my name is officially on the "rescind-layoff-notices" list to be approved at the board meeting this upcoming Monday. I was already pretty certain that my job would be safe, but this will make it official! All of the tenured teachers at my school were on the list (yay!), but there are still a few non-tenured folks whose job futures are uncertain. I am keeping my fingers crossed for everyone!
In other, completely unrelated news... We have decided to move forward on a few landscaping-type projects. We have a few people coming today to give us estimates on removing the (hideous!) cypress trees from our front yard. We are also thinking about replacing our lawn with EasyTurf, but need to investigate more. We'll probably get a few estimates on that next week. We use so much water keeping our lawn alive, and yet it still looks like garbage. There are a few houses in our neighborhood that have artificial grass, and it looks really nice... so we'll see. Gus also wants to level out the front lawn and have a retaining wall built along the front (a continuation of the already-existing retaining wall). He then wants to give the wall a stone facade so that we aren't looking at the ugly cinder blocks. Ultimately, we also want to get rid of the palm trees and replace them with one really nice shade tree in the front yard-- maybe some sort of maple. And then, of course, we'll need to install drip irrigation (my specialty, haha!) in all the flower beds, and re-plant them with prettier plants (like Mexican sage and bougainvillea). Right now, everything is sort of cactus-y. Of course, once that's all done, we'll need to repaint the house... and maybe re-pave the walkway and driveway. Aack!!! But yes. It looks like we'll at least be getting the cypress trees removed soon, and that is cause for celebration!
Oh, and I just remembered something important! Gus was originally planning on staying home for a month, but Maya is such an easy baby that it really isn't necessary. So instead, he'll stay home for one more week and then return to work-- only he'll be home by four o'clock every afternoon to get Nikos from daycare! YAY!! That was going to be the toughest time of day for me, without a doubt, so this is a great plan. Plus, he'll have more daylight hours to work on our never-ending list of home improvement projects. Hooray! :)
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