Seriously?

Who has time to blog these days? Not this gal....
I guess a synopsis of recent weeks is due considering it has been awhile.
Things are moving right along with the family. Andy turned 35 a few weeks ago, and for the next month and a half, on paper, I am only a year older than him. I remember it being so cool to go get our marriage license (13 years ago!) and see our ages as only a year apart. He went on a golfing weekend extravaganza with his dad and spent three days chasing a little white ball around three different golf courses in Kansas.
Good times.

I am keeping busy at work and getting kids to every different activity known to man. Most days I feel like I am "losing it" as described in my last post. Wish I could report that I have found "it" but nope. Last week I briefly considered a career change from nurse to teacher as I taught Sunday School, Youth Bible Study, and a Behavioral Emergency class for the EMT students at the fire department. That was a lot of preparation work and a lot more stress than I need on a daily basis. For some reason, taking care of mentally unstable children and adults seems waaaaay easier to me.

Tess started volleyball a few weeks ago and loves it......not to mention that I love that she loves it. She struggles with serving, but so does the rest of her team, which makes it pretty hard to win a game. Thankfully she is on track with the passing and understands the concept of the "volley" in volleyball. I would love to see this be a sport that attracts her attention. Last weekend she had a piano/vocal recital that left me smiling so big my face almost cracked. Her vocal performance was so heartfelt. Not perfect, but charismatic and her stage presence was felt by everyone. Her piano just rocked. For real. She played it without mistake and again, her stage presence and body language while playing made me was to stand up and cheer afterwards. Makes all the nagging worth it in the end. I can't tell you what a JOY it is for Andy and I to receive such flattering compliments about our daughter(s).

Kate has had a really big month, but that would best be described in a photojournalism story, so you will have to wait until I can get the pictures off my camera. School is good, Life is good. Kate is G-O-O-D. She is learning to spell and LOVES to read. Even though she didn't start out with the reading bug like Tess did, she has realized that reading is cool....especially when you don't have to ask anyone for help to figure something out. Arts and crafts continue to be her favorite thing to do, and now we are getting our daily pictures/artwork from her with writing on them.

Jane has really matured since starting Preschool. She loves to go and is disappointed when it isn't a school day. Thankfully her Sunday School class is located in her preschool classroom, so Sunday mornings have become less of a struggle. She continues to want to wear dresses to everything, and her idea of clothing is even more picky than Kate's. Jane loves to ride her bike and wants to play outside every minute possible. A day is not complete without her quoting a movie line from either Open Season or Over the Hedge, her two favorite movies....pretty sure my parents have gotten their moneys worth out of those purchases.

We are gearing up for the holiday season, and with that we are anxiously awaiting the time we can take our house OFF the market. We have given it a good college try, shown it about 7 times. There are no houses in the area that we even want to buy right now, so waiting until spring to try again feels like the right plan. The thought of spending the holidays in a rental somewhere seems like a total holiday spirit buzz kill. All the lookers have given positive feedback, but no one wanted to give us their money. We have let our cleaning go by the wayside and just this morning I asked Andy if we could call our realtor and just take the house of the market right now......"Our house is too far gone" cleanliness wise, I said.

Just this afternoon we got another showing.
Seriously.