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  • This morning felt a little like Christmas morning. Jamie came over to our room at some unearthly hour to ask Dave to crawl in bed with him for a few more minutes of sleep. I heard them pad back to Andy's room to sleep.…

  • 10:20 p.m.

    Got the house! Exciting or scary?

  • 8:30 p.m.

    Well, our realtor meets with the owners at 9:00 tonight. (Can her job really be worth these hours and having us as clients?) So, Dave's off to get us a movie so we can prop our eyes open until she calls. I feel bad fo…

  • 4:30 p.m.

    Well, we have written an offer for the amazing house. Don’t even ask how we feel about it! At the time, Dave was excited and positive that this was the house for us, and somehow I had moved to a more ambivalent stance.…

  • Okay, I am going stark, raving mad. I've gone from excited that this house is IT to depressed that there is no way Dave will ever agree to buy it (and God must really just want us to give all our money away anyway). It…

  • You are warned: If you want something light and trivial to read, skip this....and it is quite possible I don't agree with everything below even though I did write it. Remember, just random thoughts..... A couple of…

  • To move or not to move? That is the question. Dave took the morning off today so we could look at some homes a little less encumbered. We wanted to look quickly because a house in the slightly ritzy neighborhood next …

  • Well, I have been spending some of yesterday evening and this morning browsing through the book The 3-Hour Diet, which I picked up from the library yesterday. You guys have probably already heard of it, but by some mira…

  • Well, breathe a sigh of relief. You have been spared the long diatribe I wrote on why I send my kids to public school. I thought I was pretty moderate in my comments, but Dave after reading it, said I was opening a can…

  • Yesterday, Abby and Jamie decided that they wanted to have a party that evening—an exhausting idea which comes up periodically. The set-up isn’t exhausting (for me anyway). The kids enthusiastically drag paraphernalia …

  • I came down from my shower today to find the kids making fruit salad (a big hit because of the Wiggles' song) in a colander on the kitchen table with fruit spread out all over and in various stages of being reduced to bi…

  • Okay, so what is it exactly that when Jamie comes home from school and announces that his stomach doesn’t feel good that I immediately feel somewhat queasy? I guess it’s just sympathy and a weak stomach. It surely isn’…

  • I can't really imagine that anyone wants to hear the ins and outs of my beautiful day, but here it is. I got off to a bad start with picking raisins out of two bowls of Raisin Bran for Andy and Jack's breakfast. (I kno…

  • Okay, now I have a happy marriage and four somewhat behaved children whom I adore and who take pretty much all my energy and time. So, why is it that I get so restless? As we are slowly starting to look at houses again…

  • Well, I was going to blather on about how weekends never live up to the nebulous expectations I place on them and so regardless of how I excitedly anticipate the two days of family-togetherness, I tend to grump around va…

  • Spring, spring, o, glorious, spring!! It is such a gorgeous day here (must be close to 70 degrees) that, even though Abby and Andy only feel good under the effects of Tylenol, everyone was eager to be outside. So, w…

  • As I was folding laundry today, I noticed that quite a large percentage of this laundry I fold is not mine--way more than 1/6th. (Have you noticed that I do a lot of laundry? I think I must feel guilty for writing that…

  • Jack's best friend is over to play this afternoon, so am extraneous. Lovely. I virtuously did some laundry and now have a little free time. It gives me hope that one day when all the kids are in school we may not have…

  • I am sure you are all happy to know that I have almost mastered the 12's times tables now. Abby's homework every night now for, oh, the past eight weeks or so, has included timing her on multiplication facts. Every wee…

  • Okay, so we survived the Tiger Scout award banquet and Abby's birthday party and even delivered some girl scout cookies. Abby's party was very nice. Her friends are all such nice girls (maybe nicer than our kids), very…

  • Okay, so we have mice! Just after I was complacently telling Lucia that we've had them, but thankfully not this year. Then, I noticed some dropping behind the coffee pot yesterday, and I actually saw one last night. N…

  • Okay, so I'm going to try blogging which wildly terrifies Dave. (But at this point, no one knows I'm even doing it, so how disastrous can it be?) He thinks I'm already less inhibited than he is, and the internet seems …

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