Hello to one and all! I'm sure if any of you ever really check this blog you are ready to throw your hands in the air in disgust at how "regularly" I update...or rather don't. What can I say except that I'm going out of my mind busy and can't afford to pay anyone else to do any of the stuff that needs doing? Yeah, I know, everyone is in the same boat these days.
But, just to make a start in the right direction, I'm going to change that around a little tonight. With everything going on in trying to figure out how to set up a business (beyond just getting a sales tax id number and registering with the city), I've clearly become...well, to quote a friend, focused. It is pretty much consuming as many of my waking (and sleeping) hours as I let it. And I really mean "let" in the loosest of terms. I swear, this thing is taking on a life and personality of it's own which is really good at strong arming me. But the biggest things that I'm more stubborn about are my family and church. So to update on family:
Tia has been out of school for a week. Unfortunately for all of us, that is the time it has taken for us to be rained out, or rather in as the case may be. The upshot of this is that her bedroom is starting to look better than it has for at least a year now, maybe even longer. Plus she is starting to realize that we (her ignorant parents) really were right when we tried talking to her about getting rid of many things she has been refusing to give up. So she has started to organize things in boxes...I'm hoping this will last, but we'll see. If nothing else, at least she is getting rid of a lot of papers and such that she didn't need before I end up being the bad guy by going through it all myself (like I'm going to find the time). Oh, the treasures that she keeps finding to try and tuck away in some corner until later!
Caelen has been out of school for more than two weeks now, and is starting to try and climb the walls. Between all the rain, and the fact that Tia is stuck cleaning her room while John and I are trying to get business stuff done, he's been stuck inside for too much of that time. Thank heavens for sunny days breaking through to Logan at last!!! Now he can ride his bike, and play with his friends every chance he gets...until we drag him out to the garden to help weed (we pull them and he stacks them in a wheelbarrow). Then it is back to the drudgery some call child slavery and some call family chores...personally, while he sort of has my sympathy (I remember a little of when I was 5 and pulling rocks out of the garden), it still cracks me up. Was I ever really that anti-gardening? Then at night, his focus (of course, after I've already supposedly put him to bed to sleep) seems to be keeping Kieran up with tickling and giggling as long as they can get away with it. Heaven help me, but listening to those hushed giggles and squeals is fast becoming music to my ears even if it means I have to get up and scold them.
Kieran is mostly just chasing after the others when they let him, and finding ways of playing around them when they won't. Oh, and proving just how much he can hold onto the baby every chance he gets. I wish I could get a good video of him chasing the kids on their bikes...he has a bike, but it goes too slow! Oh, if you could just watch those little legs move! And then he still has energy to play with Caelen at night? Where do they get all that glorious and seemingly inexhaustible energy?!?!?!
Damon, heaven help us, is starting to roll and scoot all over the place. I can't believe all the things that he finds ways of getting into! I even found him hiding in the middle of my 'flower bush' (a basket of silk flowers I use for the business). John and I each thought that the other had him, so we panicked a little until all of a sudden this round little smiling head popped up in the middle of all these silk flowers! It was sooo cute, but the little imp wouldn't hold still long enough for me to grab the camera. I think I'm just going to have to pose him later or something...
John is basically just trying to keep up the same as I am, though the poor guy is really catching the brunt end of things since I'm currently consumed with all the paperwork...and brainstorming all the stuff to prep for this fall and Christmas season. But he is hanging in there. Between all that and the roller-coaster ride at work (one week he only has about 20 hours, the next he has about 38, plus he is also helping train everyone for a new menu), he is my shining example of being able to keep it together.
So, that is basically us in a nut shell...nuttier than ever and loving it. Especially with all the sunshine that is predicted in the next week, and all the change that comes when spring begins the dry out and head into a true summer, who knows what will follow. I can't wait to see what restless fun these sweet little souls come up with next!
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