Not much different...yet

Well here is my lonely little blog, looks like I am going to be a once a month poster. February is cooking by, we've had lots of snow days and time off from school, squeezed a fun Valentines Day party in at school (I'm Head Room Mom of course!) And a ski trip to Colorado, very fun but very $$. Makes me kind of sad in a way that we are introducing Baby Bear to the sport of Kings, it is so bloody expensive that I almost don't want her to like it because it will forever be the monkey on her back. You have to live near a ski area to really get good or you are always a "tourista", huffing and puffing because you're not used to the altitude, with rental equipment, spending millions of dollars because "hey we only come once a year". Maybe we will live near a ski area someday? No real progress in the moving area. I was not impressed by Denver during the brief time we were there. So brown and dusty, with the brown cloud in full force. Did not make it up to Boulder which is much cuter of course but now all properties start at 1 million! And the old stuff around Denver just looks 1960's trashy whereas I think the old stuff around like Boston/NH/VT/ME looks charming. Papa Bear applied for a travel related job at his old school but we haven't heard anything yet. The thought of switching airlines is so full of holes, the most preposterous thing is exact same job he is doing now with the exact same headaches for HALF THE PAY to start out with! Can you imagine? Why would anyone do that at 43 with a mortgage and bills to pay? He would move up in the future and there is room for growth there that there really isn't here but still! Ack! What to do? Stay here with the same company? But Papa Bear is really burning out, switch industries and start at the bottom? Being a pilot doesn't seem like a transferable skill, and he is extremely stubborn, and unteachable, and used to being in charge, how would he survive in an office?.......oy I'm getting depressed, I better stop now. Guess I will talk to ya next month? Hopefully we'll have a bit more clarity? I would like to set a time frame and have this decided by like May1st? It's pretty hard to live and wonder all the time if we'll be here next year? Also wondering about Baby Bear's school, district is in trouble and she has had some rough rough patches not wanting to go. Is that normal for 2nd grade? If you don't want to keep up with the grind in 2nd grade what the hell will she be like in 7th when the going gets really tough? Yikes.....not doing to good right now, my stomach is starting to hurt. Gotta go!