I haven’t posted in awhile. Honestly, I’ve been really busy trying to get staff hired and ready for the upcoming school year, training, buying classroom supplies, etc., but I also hadn’t posted because I’m not so sure many people are reading this blog. I joined this ‘feedburner’ thing that is supposed to track subscriptions, etc. and it keeps saying 0. It’s disheartening. However, I feel like there’s a lot of good and interesting information to share, so I’m going to keep sharing it!

I have a couple meetings in Volusia County tomorrow with people who want to help us expand our services there. The reception in Volusia County has been wonderful. People seem truly grateful for our ABA service, and that’s very refreshing.

I’m really happy with the Sanford location, too. We ended up with a very busy summer. I can’t believe how quickly it’s flown by. We have 10 kids for school and are still growing. We’re at the point of a waiting list for October now. We have a couple EI spots open right now, but I’m guessing by the end of next week we won’t again.

The staff are busy getting the center ready for the upcoming school year. We’re reducing a lot of the clutter – thinning out the toys and moving some things to Daytona as well as packing other things away in the hopes of an Orlando location shortly materializing. We’re pretty excited about our new classroom, even though it did boot me out of my big, beautiful office. It’s going to look great and be a great space in which to learn.

We’ve scheduled our open house events for school parents and community members, but I’m not quite ready to announce the dates as there might be a change for the Daytona location upcoming. In the next few days, I’ll be sure to get the info out, though.

In sad news, we’ve lost a couple kids lately because their insurance hasn’t come through on their claims. We have a couple tricks up our sleeves that I hope will remedy this, and I’ll excitedly post info as soon as we know if our plans are going to work out.

We’re still planning for the big birthday bash in September, and Jess is still working on her yard sale – clean out those closets! August is also the materials drive, so bring us all your old kid stuff and if we can’t use it we’ll put it in the scholarship yard sale. If it’s still around after the yard sale, we’ll be taking remaining items to Children’s Home Society or Community Based Care to give to the Crisis Nursery kids.

Well, I guess that’s all for now. Like I said, there’s a lot of exciting possibilities in the next few days, and I’ll post everything that materializes, I just don’t want to jump the gun. I’ll look forward to reporting lots of good news soon!