I am at that point where I’m overwhelmed by how behind I am on blogging. So, until I can catch you up with all the interesting things of the past several weeks here’s a run-down:
Aron is sick. Poor little guy. Fever mainly, but that’s enough. All he says is…”my body hurts.”
I have had the busiest month of appointments I’ve ever experienced. Almost every day in February I had to be somewhere at sometime to see someone about something. Dentist, eye doctor, chiropractor, massage therapist (although she came to me), Vanderbilt speech lab (Aron participated in a study on stuttering…very interesting and fun), events at church, meetings at church and blah, blah, blah…I know it’s not THAT big of a deal, because lots of people live this way all the time. However, it’s a big deal for me because I. LIKE. TO. STAY. HOME! And my husband left town three times during all that mess…feel sorry for me yet? If not let me know and I’ll thicken this syrupy drivel.
My dad is in town. He got in yesterday and is staying for a while. He’s here for the arrival of my newest nephew who hasn’t shown up yet. His mama is doing everything she can to encourage him, but so far nothing.
I started painting my laundry room today. Small rooms with lots of things in them are difficult to paint. Pretty much everything aside from the washer and dryer is on the back porch until I can put it all back together.
I have too much stuff that doesn’t belong anywhere.
I love reading to my kids.
My kitchen is a MESS and I’m too tired to wash even one dish. I hope my dad isn’t offended by my housekeeping.
Phew. I feel your pain! Let those dishes sit. Reading with kids is way more fun 🙂
Don’t feel guilty about not blogging. You obviously have a reason! Business often gets in the way of our quiet time. I find that’s why I often feel guilty about not doing certain things (lately I feel guilty about not scrapbooking and not baking bread). It’s because I am often so busy with the go-go-go that I don’t have time for ME! Yep, it’s selfish. But like you said, I like to stay home. I think that my feelings of guilt are actually just gripes about not being able to have more me time to do what I love. (Not saying that’s it for you of course.)
We want our cups of hot tea with lemon. We want a relaxed project where our hands can be busy but our minds can wander (as contrasted with the usual craziness where we have to be both manually and mentally busy). We want “peas and quite” (which is what Gabe seems to think that I say when I want peace and quiet).
I hope you get more peas and quite soon. It sucks when the huz has to be away. Especially three times in a month. I hope that he is able to stay home a bit more in the future. Maybe even without working! Easter is coming up. Look forward to what I hope for you is at least a week of peace.
(John and I were joking recently that things are so hectic that this year we might just have to have Easter spaghetti. Haha!)
Also, your last blog entry was very touching and brought tears to my eyes. Just thought I’d mention that I loved reading it.
Mich
Thanks Michelle. I hope to get some peas and quiet this weekend. 🙂
I published that blog post for a very short time and saw that it had two views so I wondered who saw it. Glad it was you. I changed it to “private” because it is so personal and I’m not sure if I want the world perusing that quite yet. There is an option for “friends” to view only certain posts and I’m not sure how I can signify who my “friends” are. I’ll have to do a little research. After I get some peas and quiet though.
I’ve been thinking about you! Just don’t hear much from you without facebook or your blog. Hope you are well and enjoying the north west. Any plans to come back to visit? I would LOVE to come out there some time. It’s not possible any time soon, but I would love to see that part of the country…and you guys of course. 🙂
I would love to visit if I could, but for now it’s looking as though we might be stuck here until the Army decides to move us back east. John’s trying to pull some strings to get us stationed back in Georgia, because we loved it there. But it will take some time. We think a lot about you guys, too, and miss getting together for holidays and the like.
We’re enjoying it here as much as we can, but it rains a lot, and we’re homesick. You are, of course, welcome any time you would like to see the great pacific northwest. Mount Rainier and the Puget Sound await, so do wild Alaskan salmon and giant cedars. 🙂
It seems like I’m late to the party…I’m not sure how I missed it. Maybe it’s too much peace and quiet over here 🙂
And I really like being home too.