What's New?

There's a variety of things to report on. 

Everyone is doing well.  Madi is getting over strep and making good progress although she's struggling with a dry cough.  So thankful the rest of us were able to escape it!

Yesterday, we looked at a couple houses.  (For you local folks, we are looking at a house in Harmony near I-79.  It will cut Rick's communte from 1 hour and 15 minutes to 30 minutes!)  We've looked off and on for probably a couple years now; however with the mortgage rates where they are and our level of frustration where it is with Rick not being home as much as we'd like, we are a little more serious about looking at our options.  So much so, that we have started the great purge on our house today in preparation for listing our current home!

Adding working on the house to homeschooling combined with the fact that I had to turn over my camera to the Geek Squad yesterday means my posts will be few and far (or fewer and farer) inbetween.  I've warned the children they are not allowed to do anything exciting in the next few weeks until I get my camera back!

I'll try to update on anything big . . . listing our house, offers on ours or a new house.  Oh, by the way, Madi lost a second tooth on October 4, Uncle Steve's birthday (HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY UNCLE STEVE!)  She has another pretty loose one on the bottom and a slightly loose one on top.  She's becoming self-conscious about it.  In turn, she is all but refusing to let them come out.  Unfortunately, they are loose because the new ones are coming in.

I started the great purge in Isaiah's room.  His closet still contained "baby stuff" -- diaper stacker, baby clippers, travel bottles of shampoo and baby lotion, hospital paraphernalia, towels and wash cloths.  As much as I DO NOT want another baby, it was difficult to toss those things.  In my mind, garbage is synonymous with things you don't want.  I would like to keep those things just for the memories.  I just keep telling myself I don't want to have to move or store all those thing and for what real purpose?  I ended up keeping very few things -- name tag from baby bed at hospital, hat, etc.  That still didn't make it any less emotional.  Daddy just laughs and tells the kids "Mommy doesn't want any more babies, but she cries because she doesn't have any more babies."  I told them just like you are emotional about leaving this house (the only one they really remember living in) that it's exciting to move on to something else.

Who would miss cuteness like this?!?

Cell phone pic of Isaiah's first Wendy's Frosty experience!