Still here...

In case you were still wondering if I am still here, yes I am. 

Puppies are growing and I enjoy them very much.  Except when they decide to run out the front door and take themselves for a jog without a people escort.  That happened for the first time today.  They are like having toddlers right now.  I am always cleaning up after their messes.  But they are 100% housetrained now.  They are very attached to me.

Lee Joe is in North Dakota-still.  He came home the first week in October.  He did not make it home for Thanksgiving.  For awhile I thought it would just be me and the three youngest and my mom for Thanksgiving.  But Kelsea didn't have to work at Tucanos and Amber and Ryan told his family they were having dinner with us because they knew there wasn't going to be many of us here.  So we had a nice low key dinner all together with all the favorites.  We watched Ryan's family launch rockets which has become their Thanksgiving morning tradition and it was something new and fun for us to watch.

Lee Joe WILL be home just before Christmas.  What he does next is still unknown. 

Kelsea has moved back home but with school and her 4 jobs and social life she is not home much. 

So I continue on as a single parent.  I haven't figured out what to cook for the 4 of us.  Especially when 2 hardly eat anything so it's like cooking for 2 and half.  We can always agree on pizza.  But I think that is getting old, cheap totinos pizza, pizza bagels, pizza rolls, papa murphys or pizza hut.  And half price happy meals on Tuesdays are great.  I think I fed the 4 of us for $6.00 the other night.

I don't like driving to seminary.  I am NOT a morning person.  I never have been.  I don't even like breakfast.  I will stop griping now because you don't need to hear me go on and on about it. Because I really could.  I don't like the cold right now either.  But I was reminded after I subbed on a really cold windy day this week that I really like being home again.  At least not working in the cold all the time this winter.  But the kids at the school are so sweet.  When I come back, they ask me where I have been and why I am not there everyday.  They tell me they miss me.  I get tons of hugs and they all love to say hi to me.  That makes my day everytime.

I have a new obsession right now.  I absolutely LOVE the show Merlin.  It is filmed in the UK.  It was on NBC here a few years ago and we loved it then.  Netflix has had it.  I finally got around to watching it.  There are 3 seasons of it on Netflix right now and the 4th is airing in the UK right now.  It is recreated/retelling of a young Merlin and young King Arthur.  It is a very well done TV show that plays more like a movie.  I can't get enough of it.  I usually don't watch things over and over but I have started rewatching the episodes again.

At the moment besides  getting ready for Christmas things are quiet-I say that but there is no dad, no extra drivers, driving to seminary and school, there is choir and honor choir for Hannah, jazz band for Kylee and basketball, and regular band for Autumn-things are boring.  My motto is boring is a good thing.  I am all for boring.  We had a our share of car breakdowns in Nampa-two weeks in a row.  yeah,  and a bunch of other super stressful stuff I can't share here.  But things are what they are and after all the tough things I think I have learned how to shrug it all off.  I worry less.  Or maybe I found some great supplements to help me out.  I don't know.  But I think I still think the driving to seminary is the thorn in my side right now.

I really love to write.  (Can you tell when I blog?)  You would think I would have more time now to do that.  Well, I am getting in the way of that and I am very frustrated about it.  I am getting wound up enough that I am about to get really motivated.  Once Christmas is finally taken care of, and the dogs stop messing up the house, I have clean clothes to wear, the kitchen counter is cleaned up, and.... and........ This is where the Nike logo means so much--    Just do it!!!!