We are still among the living!

It has been awhile since I updated this blog. I wish I had all sorts of cute pictures and stuff; but I don't. I could try and tell you that life is nuts here, and if it wasn't for my job, I would probably never be away from school and kids. But, there just aren't words for it. We TRY to keep the house in some semblance of order, and we TRY to keep up on laundry and dishes and kids schedules, and my schedules, and life in general. We generally do okay, but, the house is usually a mess 30 seconds after I clean it. The sink is full of dishes 30 seconds after I wash them, and the laundry basket if full 30 seconds after the last load is folded. I thought I was doing an okay job of balancing everything, until a few weeks ago. The usual babysitter had the flu, so the mother of one of my old (now at college) sitters offered to babysit two days in a row, so I could work. I wasn't feeling so hot, I was tired, had piles of homework to do, and did not feel up to being on my feet for the next several days. The first night, I am so tired and sore and barely able to walk the front door. And I notice, OMG! The house smells really nice! (Not that it usualy smells bad, but, you know, that really nice, just been cleaned nice.) This woman looks at me and casually says, "Oh, I did a litle cleaning is all." This wonderful woman had moved all the livingroom furnature, cleaned under it, swept, mopped, vacuumed, scrubbed down the kitchen appliances, DONE THE DISHES! NO ONE DOES DISHES ANYMORE!!!!! She had dusted, washed the windows... I could have just sat down and cried. Not only do my usually overpaid sitters NEVER pick up, let alone do dishes, but I don't remember anyone, least of all someone I hardly knew, do something so wonderfully kind, and understand that maybe, just maybe I can't do it all, and could use some help. It affected me SO emotionally! I cannot explain how it touched me to have ONE PERSON take the load off for just one night. It was like having a fairy Godmother, or a Gaurdian Angel pop along and help. The next night was even busier than the night before. I was so exhusted I was dizzy and sick. I just wanted to go to bed. I walked through the front door, and found she had done all my laundry, cleaned the nightmare of a laundry/catchall room, and just gone through and CLEANED! I paid her extra.... The next week, I text the regular sitter... she was all better.Ah well. I had ONE magical weekend!

I should not complain, I know. I am 28 weeks along, and baby is fine, and I know it's all going to be harder after he's born. I have to have a c-section, and they are hard to bounce back from. I also only get 10 days total I can take off of school for the year. So, I have 10 days of recovery, before I have to get back into it. So, right now it's easy! Good LOrd. This entire blog sounds whiney, doesn't it? Actually, everything is going along great! I love love love school, and clinicals at the hospital, the kids are all doing great, and Jasin is painting the livingroom, so I will be able to get new curtains and a rug before the holidays! AND.... I went to parent teacher conferences the other day, and found out that Lexi is amazing. Well, I knew she was amazing, but, I mean REALLY smart, amazing! Her teacher told me she is the top of the class, smartest kid, has done everything Kindergarten can throw at her, plus all the advanced enrichment courses. She is a natural born leader, and has a really awesome personality, (Which we knew!). I was half prepared for the "Mrs. Dick (I HATE being called Mrs. Dick...) Your kid is nuts, and we are recommending counseling..." speech. I had no idea she was this smart! She is apparently WAY ahead of the rest of the class! At which my mother told me she had obviously inherited HER genes...:)

In conclusion, we are all alive and well, starting holiday stuff. One of the Buffalo radio stations is now playing Christmas music 24 hours a day, and some of the girls at school have their trees up already. I am not quite that prepared, but, the livingroom is being painted, so that's a start, right?
I will try to update a little more often, but I DO get on and check out everyone else's blog occasionally!