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Matt goes back to work tomorrow night. It was a much needed 6 day break. It's always needed though! Today we're still trying to get our act together. Me especially. Matt let me sleep in and then brought me breakfast in bed!! Such a sweetie! It was awesome, I got some much needed sleep, and then got to eat in peace and watch some of the Today's show!
My Dad is taking the test today to get into Matt's work. Matt's brother, Chris, and his cousin took it yesterday. Hopefully one of them will get to the next round of the process. 1200 people signed up to test for 20 spots, the odds were similar for Matt when he applied.
We're still going back and forth about moving. We thought we came to a decision about just jumping in and moving to New Jersey. And now we're going back the other way. It's been this way since he started this job. I feel like we're never going to come to a decision. It's just so hard. We just never pictured ourselves as living there. We wonder if we will fit in to the 'Jersey' life. I just don't know how to explain it. So we think that we're going to take some more time to try to decide what to do. We did find a house we really really liked over there but just don't know if the area is where we want to be. So in case you haven't figured it out, I just don't know and it's soooo frustrating.
Grace is starting to show more interest in the potty. Soon hopefully we'll get there. Ev is much better. We figured out what he was doing. He's so silly. And so smart. And i'm feeling a little better and hope to be 100% in a few more days.
For now i'm going to get some stuff done around the house. It looks even more like a bomb hit it when Matt's home. He's like my 3rd child.

Where to begin ~

I have trouble organizing my thoughts somedays. Today is one of those days. I have so much going on right now, it's hard to pick one thing to talk about since I want to talk about all of them. It seems I have a better outlook on things one i've written them down.


I spent most of my day sick in bed yesterday. It was awful. I'm just not feeling very good lately and can't quite put my finger on what will make it better.



I'm a little worried about Evan. He's been doing some strange things lately and we're keeping an eye on him. If things don't seem better by next week, we're going to take him to the doctor. He's been my main focus lately. Soon we're going to shift the focus to Grace potty training. I don't think she's quite ready yet. She sometimes wants to sit on the potty and other times she's very against it.



Grace and I went shopping today alone. It was nice to be out just the two girls. She loved it. She loves walking around holding my hand getting all of my attention.

Slept In

I don't know where to start. It's been a busy weekend. We decided early Saturday morning to just pack up and go to the mountains for the day. We were all ready and on the road by just before 9. The kids were excellent in the car, and both got a pretty good nap. We ate a little fast food in the car for lunch, yuck and went right up to the cabin and hung out for a few hours. We went down the mntn and saw Grandpa who was so happy to see the kids. Then we went down to Debbi & Rob's new house and surprised everyone. I think Debbi and Rob were both very glad we all came. I think that their new house is going to be amazing when they're finished. I'm happy for Rob about his job and can't wait to hear about how his first day went. We all went to dinner after everything was all moved in. It was nice to have everyone all together, minus Greg. The kids were awesome all day. So well behaved. We changed then both into their PJ's and left for home about their bedtime at 7. Grace was watching dvd's in the car and Ev fell asleep almost immediately. Grace stayed awake the entire ride home. We got home at 10!!! She was asleep here by 10:30 and we thought she would sleep until at least 7. Nope. This child doesn't ever sleep in. She was up by 6!! But, she's a good kiddo.
Today was a little errand running and some much needed chill out time.
My computer is out of battery, maybe i'll finish this one tomorrow. I have so much more to get off my chest, about moving, and the kids, and a bunch of stuff.

Friday happenings

Today holds the one 'job' that I hate the most, grocery shopping. I especially hate grocery shopping on Friday's and really really hate grocery shopping on Friday at Walmart. It's like torture to me however I refuse to go anywhere else b/c it's so much more expensive elsewhere. So for a little pain I save a decent amount of money.
I contacted a realtor in NJ. We want to move, now. We're just still really scared about selling this house. We are still thinking about renting it out but don't want to rent it to someone we don't know. So if you know someone looking to rent a 3bd 2ba house...let me know!!! We still aren't sure where to buy in NJ so we may end up renting over there until we figure out where we want to be. I'm just ready to jump in with both feet and make the move.
My parents might come here tonight and watch the kids so Matt and I can go out to dinner. I hope so. We could really use some alone time. And we think we're going to take the kids to the Aquarium on Monday for something fun to do. I think both kids will really love it.

Thursday, one more to go...

Matt is supposed to be off tomorrow but he has steam training. He goes in for 8:30am and is supposed to get done around 2pm but get paid for the full day so it's not so bad. At least he gets to "sleep-in" tomorrow.

We were going to go to the mountains this weekend but as of last night plans changed for reasons I won't get into right now. Matt isn't too happy but he's the one that made the decision not to go. Granted, I agree with him for sooo many reasons but if he said let's go, I would go. We're now trying to come up with a new plan for the weekend, something different just to get away for a little bit. Cabin fever has set in big time in this house. The kids are bored with their toys and doing the same things all the time so i'm going to think on it and see what I can come up with.

Today hold more errands for us. Big fun.

I think Ev will start walking soon. He is now standing alone without holding onto anything for long periods of time. I hope he does it so that Matt can see his first steps.

Heat wave!

It's supposed to go up to around 40 today so i'm taking the kids walking. It's one of my goals for this year, if it's over 40 and not raining we're walking. I bundle the kids up so they're snug and cozy and we get outside! They love it. It takes me about 10 minutes to do a one mile lap so usually we'll do 2 and be in and out within half an hour, it's nice to be outside and I get the exercise. My pedometer is getting overtime today. I hope to log 12000 steps today instead of the usual 10000. We will see.

Grace fell off of her tricycle last night. She has some nasty bruises on the side of her face. She's ok though. But after is happened she told me that she wants to put her tricycle in the trash. lol

I got the new car seat the other day, now I have to go exchange it. Ug. It has a tear in the fabric that I didn't see in the store. So back to Exton we go! Then I hope to get to Dad's after nap time to clean out the truck for our little excursion this weekend.

as usual, more to say and no time to say it.

Brrr....

Being cold seems to be the theme of today. Our heater seems to have been running all day today. I'm not looking forward to that gas bill. I'm not feeling good today. I just feel 'blah'. There's nothing really wrong, I just feel like the best thing for me to do would be to curl up in bed and sleep under my warm covers with my heating pad until the morning. Never going to happen, I know. They claim that today is the 'most depressed day of the year'. Something about lack of daylight, holiday hangover, blowing your new years resolutions and being cold....maybe there's something to it. I have spent the majority of the day in fleece yoga pants and a fleece top. I'm a fashionista, I know. So glam. But it's the only thing that seems to be keeping me warm. The kids are in their Old Navy fleece today also. Ev has been sleeping all afternoon, he must be toasty in his bed with his blankets and fleece on! I needed the little break. It was a hectic morning, more about that later maybe. Right now, I guess I have to do something productive and start the rest of dinner. We're having stuffed shells out of Cooking Light, made from scratch. I cooked a whole turkey yesterday with all the fixins, again out of CL. It was so tasty, as Grace would say.
Random comment, Matt's brother Greg said he might go to the mountains with us this weekend. I hope so. I know that Matt misses him and so does everyone else. He's busy and we understand, but it would be nice to see him.
again, more later.