Will Life Get Back To Normal Soon?

Wow - this summer has just been utterly insane!

With vacation and Japan trips, potty training and finally the "procedure", I NEED A VACATION! Calgon, take me...anywhere! LOL

Now that SVA (Spring Vale Academy) is in session, life gets a little bit busier. Jeremy coaches the girl's basketball team. He (and sometimes the older two) is either at practice every night or at a game. The kids and I go to pretty much all the games - to support our girls and to be near Daddy. Makes for a busy week!
School starting also means that we get our mentees back or get new mentees if ours graduated last year. So far, I've not been assigned one - but Jeremy still has his from last year. This just means that we try to get together with "our teen" as much as we can.

Hunter begins preschool on Monday (9/19). We're very excited for him. I am also looking forward to having to have some sort of "schedule". I like the ideas of schedules, I'm just horrible at keeping them! Hopefully, I'll manages to keep some sort of routine with him in school. I think that Lizzie is going to be so lost, but hopefully she'll adjust soon.

We managed to make it through most of the summer without any sickness...until now. Lizzie has a cold right now. She's sneezing, snotting and all around grumpy right now. I'm thinking that it's the change in weather. We went from 90's on Wednesday to rainy and 60-70's on Thursday. I'm actually kind of ready for the weather to change a bit. Not sure why...fall leads to winter and the winters seem to last forever here - but I'm ready for a change!

Well, I'm entering another weekend of...what seems to be the norm. Jeremy's gone yet again this weekend. This time it's a fishing trip. I'm not happy he's gone, but I'm glad it's this weekend and not next since we've got a big church meeting to go to. So, we're just hangin' out tonight, going to church in the morning (provided Liz is feeling better and no one else is under the weather) and then hangin' out again for the rest of the day and Sunday. Wow, again, I have NO social life!!!! How did this happen??? LOL
NO worries...I WILL get my turn!!

Ok, signing off...hopefully I'll get to Liz and Tanner's birth stories this weekend on their blogs!
We shall see!

OH, I should be sleeping!!!

But instead, the past two nights, I've been creating the kids their own 'blog' of sorts. Just all about them...I'm still adding...so far I've only put how they came to be.....still needing to get their birth stories posted, but sleep is calling my name. Anyway - check them out if you're interested...they've got links now...

Again, just no motivation!

Now that I know my hubby reads these (hi, honey!!!) I have to be careful about what I write....so, I'll say this: The house is spotless and all the kids are sleeping and this is why I'm taking time to write in my blog. Yeah, right - and Jeremy HATES HATES HATES hunting and fishing. Ok, so now that we all know I'm lying, just asking for any ***get off your butt and do something*** vibes!

Off to clean something!!!!

My baby's going to preschool...

in 12 days. *whimpering*

WOW - is it possible that I have a child old enough to be in school? I'm so excited for him, yet sad for me. Sad for me b/c my baby is growing up....and sad b/c this only goes to prove that I'm getting OLDER!

He's so excited! I hope that he does as well as we think he will! Three hours away from home every day (well, Mon-Thurs) is a lot for a 4 year old (I think)! This will also be hard on Lizzie. She's going to be so lost!

************Having major dejavu************** Have I posted this before??? OH well if I have...guess you're getting it again!

I'm sure to post how his first day goes - with pics!

*still whimpering*

I Got Such A...

boring life! I don't have anything to write about...

This week has had it's good and bad points. It's awesome that Jeremy is home! We missed him alot! It has been an adjustment, only b/c we got used to doing things "our way" - and having to make it work for ALL of us now, has been a little difficult. Certainly not a bad thing, but an adjustment!

It's definitely been busy! Jeremy was off Monday for Labor Day - and that was really nice getting to spend that time together! The kids were happy that he was home for the whole day! Tuesday (was that only yesterday???) we went to SVA girls bb game. Jeremy is the coach, but was unable to be there since he was working 1 & 1/2 hours away. I love to go to the games - in a way it's hard with all three kids - and in a way it's easy - as there's usually someone there to take one or two of them for me! Today I'm going to drop some things off at a church that's collecting for Hurricane Katrina Relief. Just waiting for my cuz to come over and go with.

The rest of this week is going to be busy, yet uneventful - does that make sense? Friday is Jeremy's umm...appt. (No more kids for us!) Then of course, the weekend will just be recovery - which means the kids and I may have to make ourselves scarce - if they can't seem to keep from crawling all over Dad! Also on Friday morning, we have our orientation appt. for Hunter's preschool! I'll save that for another post.

Ok, done now! So, maybe I did have **something** to write about.

He's Home!!!

Jeremy's home!!

He's sleeping right now.......

But hey, he's home!!! Hopefully he'll get off Japan time soon!!!

We went last night to pick him up - he was supposed to get in at 8:00'ish, so we were on our way to get him when he called to say he was delayed in Chicago....bummer. So, we swung by the mall to hang while we waited. I was surprised how well it went with three kids! Tanner was in the umbrella stroller and Hunt & Liz on either side holding to the stroller. They all did really well. We only went in to two stores: Radio Shack (Hunter saw the R/C cars and wanted to check them out) and Claire's (oh, to be 15 again). The highlight of their mall experience was getting to see and use the "little toilet" in the family restroom - they both decided they needed to go twice. (in the same restroom visit) :)

By the time we got home, the kids were out cold and so we all went to bed (I'm hearing snickers from my Yahoo ladies SHH!!). Again, Japan time took it's toll and Jeremy was wide awake - b/c in his world, it was 2p.m. After finally getting to sleep around 2'ish, Tanner was up at 4 and 7 to eat. Love all that sleep I get!

The kids are just beside themselves that Daddy is home! I'm excited for them...and myself, as tomorrow I'll be ducking out of here for a while! Don't know what I'll be doing, but it will be nice to get away for a while.

Ok, done with my book! Gotta go wake Jeremy!

In light of all happening in the world...

I feel somewhat bad for blogging about this, but I'm so happy, I'm giddy! J is coming home tomorrow!!! I just can't wait to see him! I honestly didn't think that I would miss him this much (sorry honey LOL). I guess I was just focused on how hard I thought it would be on the kids that I didn't think about how much I WOULD MISS HIM. I'm not talking about missing his help. I just missed seeing him, talking to him, just being with him. Absence really does make the heart grow fonder (sorry for the cliche').

OK, Little Miss just woke up, so wrapping this up sooner than planned....

I missed you Jeremy and cannot wait to see you!!!