Okay, enough with the whining and complaining!

Exciting things have been happening in our family, yet I've focused on the "no phone call with LOA" through most of it here. I need to share the "fun" things we've been up to.

First off, I decided that our nasty stained carpet (it was light creme and NOT scotch guarded for those of you with children) needed to be cleaned REALLY well or replaced. After about 1 hour of trying to clean, we opted to replace. Perfect distraction during this wait...right? Oh my word has it been exhausting. We have new carpet in, it's lovely. We are so tired though. Tired of packing up junk, tired of moving furniture, and tired of sitting at the table to be on the computer. But man oh man that carpet is so pretty. It's "flecked" but mostly a dark khaki (color of wet sand). It has brown, black, and creme pieces in it. I was also smart and got the special pad, the moisture blocking pad, so future stains won't soak in and come back to haunt us.

Secondly, JM pitched a baseball game and actually struck some kids out! After his first outing where he walked 4 batters in a row, we were so proud. He's also doing a great job with the catcher position as well.

Third, Samuel is now an orange with black stripe belt in Karate like his brother. He passed his test, and he is just about always kicking at least waist high these days. Not bad for a 4 year old (okay, he's really ALMOST 5).

The boys also got new gameboy games for helping us move furniture and take out the old carpet (well, Samuel helped us out by staying out of the way and away from the dust so we didn't have to administer any breathing treatments). The games have really helped them stay busy during the long hours we've needed to get things back to rights, shopping for organizing things (be still my beating heart), and time for us to be on the computer...like now. ;)

See, I told you, EXCITING times!