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getting ready for school blessings  goofs! Natalie and Jack making the same face haha We got discount costumes the day after Halloween and the kids were STOKED. watching a funny video that Makall sent - they were so cute all gathered together cozy girls post bath! Jack got a new fox and blanket from Mimi. He loves being cozy, especially in his fox robe! And this is our homemade Forky toy. Stockton loves Forky from Toy Story 4 and freaked out one day when I refused to buy him a Forky toy at Target (we're talking like HUGE freak out, screaming, dragging to the car, throwing his booster seat at the car next to us...yeah) so when he calmed down we made our own. Happy 29th birthday to meeee! Wow, babies eating are so cute haha. Claire LOVES table food! We often just grind up whatever we are eating and she happily chomps it down. ah, the whole line of utensil toys (Jack made "Spoony" and Natalie made "Nike" Jac...

VIPKid

Austin had some changes at work and has a more intense school semester so we found ourselves in need of some extra cash....Austin suggested that he could go to work as a night stocker at the grocery store, but I firmly denounced that. Sleep is important! Especially with all of the other things Austin already does every day. A lot of my friends work for VIPKid, an online teaching platform that teaches English to kids in China through Skype-like video and powerpoint slides. I'd never thought about doing it because it requires early mornings (and our kids already wake up way too early for my taste), but I felt like I could look into it this time and I was surprised by how excited I felt about it. Three months later and I am totally digging it! It felt like learning a whole new language with all of the lingo, the ESL certification, the logistics of bookings and scheduling and payment, and then the actual teaching! But I dove in and once I surfaced I didn't look back. It took ...