Excuses Excuses!!!

Yes I know my blogging abilities have faltered in the last two months, but I have some good excuses!!!!

Excuse #1: As you already know, my camera broke, but thanks to my thoughtful cousin, I have her old one now until I can buy one! Thanks Nat, your a lifesaver!

Excuse #2: I had become an addict. To blogging. Seriously everyone, it was bad. I hope I'm not alone when I say this, but I literally spent hours at a time on the computer some days, well most days. This is pretty much how my days would go: wake up, get the kids breakfast, turn the computer on (it's in my kitchen) while eating my filling bowl of cereal and giving half hearted "uh huh's" and "sure's" to my kids, spend a couple hours doing only the absolutely-need-to-be-done chores, getting Carter to school, then put Addison down for a nap while McKoy watches yet another show on the tube, and ahhhhh, I sit in my super uncomfortable chair for the next two hours and blog. As you can probably imagine, my house was quite disastrous, my kids were having way to much unsupervised playtime or watching way too much tv, and my dinners for my hard working husband were hurriedly thought up and thrown together only after my cell phone would ring and he would say "I'll be home in a half hour." It was quite seriously ridiculous. It had to stop. I appreciate all the worried phone calls in my behalf "just checking to see if I was alive since I hadn't blogged for awhile", but I can no longer stand that my feet stick to the kitchen floor, my kids have forgotten the sound of my voice besides me saying "hold on a second", and the backaches and carpal tunnel my body was experiencing!!!!! (please do not take my shallow attempts of trying to make my blogging habits sound humorous too seriously, just trying to be funny, and may have exaggerated slightly)

Excuse #3: We have decided to put our house on the market. We actually love our house and yard, and don't necessarily need to move, but with Damien teaching and coaching at Ririe now, he is gone quite a bit and we would like to be closer. I really like being involved-going to his games and stuff-and it's twice as hard when you're far away. As for the house selling soon, we aren't expecting it to go too fast with the market the way it is, but we figure we have nothing to loose so we might as well try...So I have had to play some serious "catch up" on my household duties because of excuse #1, getting it "show ready" and all. Thank you to my mom, Sister Megan (ha ha, that makes her sound like a nun or something), and Marie for helping me out on those days I am not feeling good.

Excuse #4: Speaking of not feeling good....I have not been feeling good. More like yucky, blah, grrrr, dry heave, vomit, freezing, tired, nauseous, weak...if this is sounding familiar to some of you, yes, we are expecting again! I am only about fourteen weeks along. I am already feeling big (but when you see me, please be polite and keep your eyes from staring at my shouldn't-already-be-showing-but-is belly) and have been hiding in the house for a while in my comfy sweats. I am still not feeling good, but I keep trying to play head games with myself. I tell myself "Wow, I feel good today!" and just keep thinking it over and over. So far it hasn't really worked :), but I'll keep trying! I went to the doctor finally yesterday (she was on her own maternity leave so I had to wait a little longer) and the baby looked and sounded good. The printer on the ultra sound machine was broken so I didn't get a picture to bring home and put on my blog. (sad, because the kids were excited to see a picture of the brother or sister in mommy's tummy) It will never get old, seeing your baby for the first time kicking and squirming around, and hearing the thump-thump of their tiny beating hearts. I feel so blessed to be able to bring another special spirit into our home! I hope to get going a little better on my blogging, but if you check up on us and we dont' have a new post up, just blame it on one of this things! But keep checking back!