Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.
We’re moved, if you call living around boxes moved. Everything’s here, anyhow. We’re still heating water for baths/dishes, but being here is so much better than the traveling back and forth each day. It’s home. About the baths… It takes many minutes and many pans of hot water to be able to take a bath. […]
Through a fun turn of events, we’re moved, without hot water, and I’ve never been so glad to take a cold shower in my life. So cool. (Ha, didn’t that one come out funny!) We’ll be without internet until I can get the proper people called, so here’s a goodbye until we surface out from […]
Just sent off our first mortgage payment for the house that we’re not even living in yet. It was a “Well, here we go. For the… Next. Thirty. Years. kind of feeling. A ‘I’ll be 56 when we get this paid off if we only pay the minimum. Likely a grandma, many times over.’ kind […]
Liberty came out of their bedroom tonight with shorts and a tank top on, announcing she was going to wear that instead of sleeping in her panties like she has been doing (It’s about 90 degrees right now, at 9 pm.) because she sleeps next to a window and someone might see her. Blaine’s response […]
Yesterday I had an OB appointment. I was a little stunned when they told me that my next appointment in July will be my glucose test, and from there on out I’m on every two week appointments instead of every four weeks. You mommas out there know what that means. Eek! Anyway, the appointment. Or […]
I think the ticks don’t like me; not that I mind. The kids have each had a dozen or more on them by now, and I haven’t had any, even with the many hours I’ve spent in the grass. Strange? Stop contemplating? The great state in which we live, while Blaine assures me there are […]
On the way home last night, we drove past several fields all aglow with fireflies. Or lightning bugs. Whatever you want to call them. The conversation went a little like this: Me: “Look at all the lightning bugs in the fields!”Liberty: “Oh, there’s fireflies too!”Me: “Fireflies are lightning bugs. Same thing, different name.”Liberty: “Do lightning […]
Homeownership has been… well, so far mostly the downs of trying to get things ready to move in, but we’re loving it anyhow. The yard is awesome, the shop has Blaine quite pleased with his space to work in, and the fireflies are great fun for the kids. Yes, I know fireflies come out after […]
Yesterday, we closed on our house. Half an hour of signing our life away and handing over one very large (in my world, anyhow!) hard-earned check, and we have keys! We did that over Blaine’s lunch hour, then Blaine in his van and me in mine with the kids headed to lunch quick before Blaine […]
I made oatmeal for breakfast this morning. After the kids were done, all four, ages 20 months to 6 11/12ths years hopped up, scraped their bowls and put them in the dishwasher. A mother of eleven told me once, several years ago, that those were the hardest years. Now, a few years later, my olders […]
