Life At The Circus

Almost done catching up the journal blog on some of the big life happenings round here these past few weeks.  Last, but certainly, not least, would be the girls Mini Olympics performances at gymnastics.   I LOVE Mini-Olympic time.  It’s the one time of year when we get to go on the other side of the glass wall and watch our girls up close.  And since I am often entertaining a toddler or taxing around an 8 yr old or running errands, during their practice time, I truly cherish getting the opportunity to watch them perform.  (and yes, I would be that mom with the camera and video camera out trying to chronicle it all)  (but I assure, you I’m not the only one!) First up would be our 4 year old.  This past year she was a Sea Monkey- which meant she practiced two times a week for an hour each time.  I am SO-VERY-PROUD of her and all she has learned this year.  I can’t believe how much she has grown and what she can now do and I love, LOVE ...

It’s been 2 weeks since we signed on the dotted line twenty million times and got the keys to our new home!  And we’ve made some special memories in those two weeks, such as… camping out the first night in front of the fire place in an empty house riding bikes (every day since we got here… and I can’t believe how much better they are at riding bikes now… I have 3 proficient 2 wheelers now!) throwing clothes down the laundry shoot (the girls particularly LOVE this—one will stand in the basement where it comes out and the other throws it down from upstairs then they race to meet each other in the middle after it went down and giggle with glee—still hasn’t gotten old yet) shooting the BB gun in the back yard breaking in Daddy’s new hammock on Fathers Day camping out in Mom and Dad’s closet playing lots of choo choo We still have work to finish up before our renter moves in to the old house.  And we have yet to hang anything on the walls in the ...

Sooooo much life has been happenin’ round here these past few weeks, I honestly don’t know where or how to start with chronicling it all.  But, lest he get ANY older, I thought I’d pause in the midst of unpacking to comment on the birthday of my youngest.   Because folks, sometime in the midst of packing, remodeling, moving, and unpacking… this little guy turned 2!!  But, more than that, just like I feared, the little man grew up when we moved to the new house.  Not only does he not need baby gates, he can be on a completely different floor than I am, happily playing.  Or he can wonder around in the big back yard all by himself.  We didn’t put his crib back together, as he sleeps on a toddler bed now.   And while he is by NO MEANS potty training, he has gone on the potty a few times and even told me when his diaper is dirty.  Which means, he is a full fledge toddler!!!  And while he works very hard at keeping up with the b...

These past few weeks have been some of the most exhausting in my life.   It’s been 9 years and 4 kids since our last move and let’s just say we’ve acquired a whole lot more stuff since our last move.   I purged and donated and purged some more and yet have found myself with enough miscellaneous boxes of random to sort through in the new house till Labor Day!  Meanwhile we were listing our house for rent, showing it to perspective renters AND still trying to juggle the spring extra curriculars like year end home school evaluations, baseball games, gymnastics classes, play off games, mini Olympics, piano recitals, and birthdays and our anniversary.  We’ve pulled countless nights up till the wee hours of the mornings when I was so tired I wanted to cry.  And here we sit in our new house… with pretty much MOST of our stuff out of the old house and some of the stuff situated in the new house.  And I couldn’t be here without the help of some fabulou...

I remember vividly the first night we spent in our house.  We were first time home owners. And we were giddy.  As we lay on the floor in our bedroom looking up at the ceiling I remember Scott commenting on the ceiling fan. “Look at that ceiling fan!  We own it!”  I on the other hand couldn’t get my eyes of the red blinking light from the smoke detector…. wondering how would I fall asleep with it constantly blinking.  Funny, how 9 years later I don’t notice that blinking light at all. I recall our first morning here.  It was the first day of March and yet we’d been hit with a rare dusting of snow.  Not enough to cause any problems for move in day the next day, but enough to blanket the trees in our back yard with that beautiful, thick, covering of white.  As I looked out our window, it was one of those moments I knew I’d want to tuck away and savor… This house has been good to us.  Just like we hoped and dreamed when we moved in, i...

Scott, in honor of our anniversary this weekend, I compiled a list of 11 things I love about you. 1.  You’re a dreamer. 2.  Your not afraid to go for the crazy (take 4 kids on a 22 hour car ride to see a 2 minute rocket launch… sure thing…stop by Times Square for hot dogs on the way to CT for a wedding with 2 toddlers and a very pregnant wife, “I’m in!”) and thus, you’re a great memory maker.  3.  I’ve never had to iron anything in our 11 years of marriage. 4. You put your family first… always… 5.  When I announce “breakfast for dinner”  you react with the same enthusiasm as if I am serving you filet mignon. 6.  You can fix pretty much any computer or technical problem.  7.  Your logical (and thus, a little of your logic has rubbed off on me over the past 11 years).  8. You make up silly songs and sing them with reckless abandon to the kids and I.  9.  You always see the best in everyone and give everyone the ...