So it’s been a long time since I wrote anything of substance.

I know.

We’ve had a few things going on around the house. I’m doing my best, but I’ll admit it (and frankly I think that I’ve earned the right), I went to bed several times over the past two weeks thinking that I could and probably should write something on the blog, but chose to just go to bed and watch The Daily Show. I love John Stewart. Very funny. For those who don’t know, try Comedy Central at 10 pm. Skip the news; it was the same at 6.

A couple posts ago, I wrote while I in a bad mood. That was a real dose of what it’s like around here. My mood has improved a bit since then and things have improved around the house. Who knows, maybe we’re just getting use to it and the thought of that scares me a bit. When the kids (all of them at once) are sick, this house is just miserable. Everything sucks, even for just a couple hours. Whatever bug they had ran its course after about two weeks.

In my last post, I let everyone know that I would be taking over the primary role of the coordinator for the volunteers. I’m sending out emails a couple times a week and Angela and I both spend time making changes to who’s coming and going during each day. Those changes aren’t hard to make, its finding replacements for them that’s difficult. Angela Kaiser has picked up a little of the slack to help me better organize the volunteer roster and give orientations for some of the new college kids. Thank you Mrs. Kaiser and Happy Anniversary!!! Joyce and Judie are also going to continue to help with taking calls as they filter in. However, we still need an Angel to come give us a hand. We are just too prideful (my pride is just a huge pill that I’m not willing to swallow) to make an outbound phone call to ask for help. I can manage the calendar, but I can’t and I will not make outbound calls. My pride just gets in the way and I don’t want someone to feel pressured to fill a spot because I’m the one calling. A third party should be the one making those calls. Now we really haven’t had too much trouble so far, but we’ve been close a few times. If you’re out there reading this and you think that you’d like to help in this role, please send me an email by clicking here.

So how are the kids? Where do I start? They’re getting so big. I haven’t been good lately at taking pictures and I know that we need to do a better job. Sorry. Alex is still the biggest, Emma is the smallest, Lauren is Captain Cool, Brook’s an emotional wreck, and Maddie eats the most (very ironic considering the huge issues we had with feeding her early on). They eat every four hours during the day but go 7-8 hours overnight w/o anything to eat; sometimes. A couple of them sleep through the night every night, a couple of them sleep through a few times a week and Alex is up five of the seven nights of the week between 4:30 and 5. He just isn’t ready yet, but, he’s gonna learn soon.

Changes continue to develop with the kids and how we manage the house each week. We are starting to plan and schedule nap time. After just a couple days, we’ve managed to get a couple scheduled naps a day where we put them all in bed at the same time, while awake, and they need to get themselves to sleep. Only took 20-30 minutes today. Yesterday, some of them didn’t get it and the day before that it didn’t really work at all. We think it’s getting better each day and we’ll continue to do it. If we don’t start this type of thing at some point, we’ll have volunteers here rocking kids at nap time until the kids leave for kindergarten. We love our adopted family, but that’s not gonna work for anybody. I need to be able to walk around in my underwear sometime. TMI, I know.

The kids are developing physically, too. They’re close to sitting up on their own. They’re rolling over with ease in both directions. I’ve seen three of the kids (Alex, Emma, and Lauren) with their butts in the air pushing off their knees and moving forward. It isn’t gonna be long and they’ll be mobile; a whole new ballgame.

To add to all that we have going on, Angela and I are trying to plan for the future. Unfortunately, our current home is not in our long-term family plans. There just isn’t enough space. In the near future we’ll be listing our home for sale. We have a few prep things that we need to work out first like cleaning Meredith’s pencil marks off the walls. Given the housing market, we just don’t know what to expect. It may take us a while to sell and we need to plan things out as best as we can. So, if anyone is looking for a relatively new, split level home in the River Falls community, please let us know. I know a guy who’s selling!!!

Until next time…

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