Congratulations!

We have some exciting news in the Gresh household! Steve is officially a licensed CPA! I am so proud of him. I can't even tell you how challenging it is to receive that license. Steve had to work so hard and spent over a year studying for those exams. So if you know a CPA I would like you to give them a call and tell them how grateful you are for all of their hard work. You wouldn't believe how many hours they pull in a week during tax time. Steve is currently at 68 hours a week, but the closer it gets to April 15th the more hours he will work. Last year he was up around 85 hours for the last two weeks of tax time. Last year I didn't really notice the 85 hour weeks because I was chaperoning the Model United Nations group to New York. Sometimes when I need a good laugh I think back to that trip. If anyone wants to know what kind of teacher I am, just realize that I spent a week in New York City cleaning up a mixture of my vomit and six different children's vomit, and I never once thought of quitting. Normally I have a hard time accepting gifts from parents, but when I saw that Panache Salon and Spa gift card in that mothers hand I snatched it up so fast and never looked back.

So the moral of that story is since I found myself a new job this year, I might need some friends during those first two weeks of April to keep me company.

Anyways, today was my first day back to work after six days off. Two of those days were the weekend, four of those days were snow days. Which actually were more like cold days because it didn't really snow. I took the time to do some things that I really needed to do but I was neglecting. I cleaned all of my make-up brushes using a mix of olive oil and baby shampoo. I noticed that whenever I clean my brushes using just the baby shampoo that they tend to dry out, so I mixed the olive oil to add some moisture. Let me tell you, that was one genius idea I had there. It really worked!