In The Mind of A Thirtysomething Mom

Decisions

My surgery went well. Everything is taken care of and I feel 100% better. Thank you for all your prayers and concerns.

I can't believe tomorrow is the first day of August! This Summer has flown by! Soon it will be M's birthday and she'll be 6. Where has the time gone? It seems just yesterday she was born. Wow!

I've decided to teach M & B here at home until we move and they can go to the base school. I figure I can't screw them up too bad since the first month of school is just review anyway. Hopefully we'll be moved in before too much longer. We're number 9 on the list right now, up from 14 last Thursday. I pray it keeps moving that quickly until we're at the top.

Only 3 days of work left! I'm off today for an additional day of recovery, but then it's back to the grindstone until Friday. It's bittersweet as I'll miss all the people I work with every day.

Right now I'm busy cleaning upstairs of clothes we no longer wear. That in itself is a chore. We've got the VA coming tomorrow to pick-up our discards, so I've got to get cracking.

Calm Weekend

FINALLY!!!! A weekend where nothing is really going on! I took D to the airport yesterday so he could fly back to MS for the school year. The airport was packed! It seemed everybody and their brother were flying to NY for Ripkin's hall of fame induction. He barely made it to the gate in time. We arrived with about 5 minutes to spare. It took us forever to get through security. It wrapped around forever.

I wasn't feeling too great today, so I skipped church to get some extra rest. Dh & the kids went and enjoyed the service.

My surgery is scheduled for tomorrow, so if you have a spare second please throw a prayer up for me. It's nothing big, routine is more like it but I've never had any surgery of any kind in my life and I'm a little uncomfortable.

Here's to my last week of work! As of Friday afternoon, I'll officially be a stay-at-home mom again! I'm excited as maybe I can get some much needed things done around the house to prepare for our upcoming move.

Introduction

This is my first blog post! I don't know if anyone will ever read this, or will ever want to read this. Sometimes you just have to get things written down.

My name is Tina and I have 4 children: D (15), B (10), M (6), & K (22mo.). We are a family living in the Northeast with our dog, 2 guinea pigs, and 1 1/2 fish. I say 1 1/2 because we're awaiting the death of my son's Beta.

I may not have a lot of time of keep this updated as having 3 kids at home can be time-consuming. I know those who have more kids are laughing right now, but re-entering the SAHM realm after being away for 3 years takes some adjustment.

My time is also limited because everytime I get on the computer, SOMETHING happens. Today it was M having a 6 year old drama queen sized meltdown over K tearing a box. Go figure. Right now I'm trying to type with a Care Bear and a HUGE Elmo on my lap courtesy of my 22 month old. Everytime I try to put them down she comes running back to me saying "Big Elmo", "Care Bear" and thrusting them onto my lap. One day she'll realize that it's hard to type with Elmo's giant eyeballs up your nose. Now she's moved on to the opening the Guinea Pig cage and is attempting to allow the pigs freedom. Such the patriot for pig rights she is.

Oh yeah, I forgot the bread winner dh. He'll have to wait for another time as M is having another fit upstairs and I'm harboring a leech on my lap in the shape of K.

Until next time!