Holy Cow! It's been a LONG time!

So here I'm sitting finally at the computer w/ a moment's peace! How you ask?...

My son is in PA w/ his grandparents. My husband is working at the office today. The dog is snuggled on the couch sleeping. I'm left to my own device to type away w/ the back door open and nothing but fresh air and sounds of birds chirping away. It's bliss. I was going to go to work today but opted to pamper myself for as long as I can before I'm blessed w/ our 2nd child hopefully any day now. When this one is born life will truly never be the same- 2 children and the dog and me to defend myself against them! :)

So wow, it's been MONTHS since I've last blogged, huh? Well, what's happened since last?...

Tax season ended w/o much harm. That's always a plus. We did our traditional Myrtle beach vacation for 2 weeks w/ Ben & Sadie. We sold our city house and moved to suburbia and have not looked back once! This fits us. We were nervous for the change of city life to the suburbs, but it's been a fantastic transition and we have no complaints at all about it. The house is perfect for us and the area is just as good. It's what we envisioned when we figured we'd give up city living. We had Benjamin's birthday party here and accomodated everyone quite nicely. It's been a very busy summer, but we finally quieted things down in August when we started to prepare for baby #2.

It's supposed to be a "she". And comparatively, SHE is killing me unlike what Benjamin did as a "he"! And so here we are finally at the end of August ready for baby, expecting and hoping she would come early like our first did, but she's holding out and dragging out the process much to my chagrin! We had our "false" labor this past week and were told "we're on our way", "it won't be long", "maybe 24 more hours"... that was Tuesday. Today is Thursday. No baby. So it's day by day now and she's wreaking havoc on life as my husband doesn't know if he should go in to the office or work from home, my mother had to take off work to watch my son, and the dog has even been shipped out prematurely once to her Puppy Godmother who graciously takes her in time and time again in a crisis! I just keep waiting, wondering if this next phase is going to occur or just stall til I PASS my due date... and no matter how much I Google I can't seem to find the answer to tell me HOW to get this baby out any faster! So I know it's true: babies will come when they are good and ready.

Otherwise, life on this end is just waiting for change. The chaos has yet to begin again and when it does it will w/ a vengence I'm sure. Here's to you all! Love you and miss you!

Tis another Tax Season

So we are almost 30 days into tax season. Not so bad, right? Seems like time has flown by so far. Well, here's the kicker to this one...

We're putting our house on the market in a few days. Not that we don't hope it doesn't sell, but we're hoping not to sell til the spring time to give us the months coming to get thru tax season (or what my husband's firm newly named "busy season" instead). We don't know our luck. It's surprising to say the least.

So in our house it's been work work work. I mean my husband goes to work in the wee hours of the morning and then sleeps sometime after he gets home in the late evenings after playing w/ and loving the kids, and then works all weekend on getting the house ready. I "work" all week w/ the little ones and then continue that function as well as house functions on the weekends, too, so neither of us has a reprieve right now and it's starting to show. We're frazzled and crazed now. I think anxiety and stress is getting to us quite easily as we get older and can't control our life like we used to (ie, children are unpredictable and a lot of work! :).

But we're winding down and getting to the last leg of things and then hopefully we can just sit back and relax. There is a light at the end of the tunnel for us, so that's what keeps it all together! For now we'll cross our fingers that things get a little boring...