I had every intention of beginning to blog, then life happened! However, I am beginning to think that it is the best way to maintain my sanity. I guess I can just update everyone on what is going on.
As many of you know, we moved three days before Christmas - would not highly recommend it! I am glad that we love our new house, because I have no intention of moving again!!! As we were unpacking, we found out that Samantha was afraid Santa wouldn't know where to find us, because we didn't have any decorations up. This resulted in not having beds up, but there was a beautiful Christmas tree amidst the boxes. Thank goodness - Santa did find us, but so did the flu. Do you know how hard it is to clean up after puking kids (and mom) when you don't know where anything is??? It definitely made things interesting!
After we were getting settled, Kerin discovered that his stomach hurt and there was a weird bulge by his belly button - yup, hernia! So, that resulted in surgery for him the beginning of January. When they went in, they actually found two of them - but both were repaired and are healing well.
Kerin was off of work for the months of December (vacation) and January (surgery), but that ended in February... wouldn't you know, his first week to travel was also the first week that the kids are off track. You read right - we are in year round school. I was kind of worried about it initially, but I have had a great time with them so far. Only another week and a half and they are back in school.
Samantha is loving 3rd grade and is doing well. She also loves our new house and the many little girls that are around for her to play with. Thank goodness, she has also picked up my love for reading and she is going through the Roald Dahl books now - Matilda is a favorite!
Jace is having a harder time - he is surrounded by girls and very few boys live around. As a result, I have gotten pretty good at playing Lego Pirates of the Caribbean on the Playstation : ) He is such a joy and loves doing things with me. This morning he did a 45 minute exercise video with me and told me that he was going to start training to be a ninja. At least he has goals!
Alexa is going through the "Trying" 3's. She knows more than I ever could and is also refusing to potty train - hopefully she gets over it soon. She is also a lot of fun and pure girl. She also loves Matilda - we watched it 3 times a day for awhile.
Callie is now almost 9 months old and is quite the demanding little one. Thank goodness she smiles a lot! She just got her first tooth and the second one is trying to come through. She has also learned to crawl - I am making good use of the vacuum I got for Christmas. I would be happy if she would quit getting up 2-3 times a night!
I am doing good most days, just trying to figure out this domesticity! It is much harder than I thought and there are several times a week I contemplate going back to work (but just for a couple of minutes - it passes quickly)!
My sweet sister-in-law, Nicole, introduced me to Pinterest when she was visiting in September and I am a fullblown addict! However, I committed to myself that I would also start trying some of the things that I am pinning. You are going to start seeing some of my successes, and definite failures, as I go along. Hopefully I try some of the things that you are thinking and can share some ideas. Much to my children's dismay, a lot of them are recipes : )
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