Its been much too long since I’ve written! I just can’t seem to get myself together lately. I feel like I’m going non-stop but yet I feel like I’ve accomplished nothing. Sadly, I don’t even have much to report!!
Jim is in his last week of school #2. One more school and then he can officially serve as an officer. I think #3 ends in July. At that point he can also be called out of his other schools if a unit needs him to serve. We’ve been blessed that we’ve had him home almost two years but the closer we get to the end of schooling, the closer his next trip to Iraq.
My step-dad is doing well. He hopes to return to work next week. He starts chemo April 6 (what a great Good Friday, eh) and will have it weekly. He’ll also be doing radiation but I’m not sure the schedule on it. He’s finally able to keep food in his stomach, so I think that has done a great deal in helping him feel better. He’s barely been able to keep anything in since October. He’s been losing 5-15 lbs a week! The doctors would like him to lose more weight but are hoping his body slows it down to a more reasonable rate!! As my mom said, that rate of loss would be pretty good under normal circumstances.
<mom brag> Elizabeth recently got her first jigsaw puzzle. She has loved puzzles since she was about a year old and has mastered all the wooden puzzles I’ve given her. So I thought I’d give her a 24 piece jigsaw and that would keep her going for awhile. Wrong. She has it almost mastered! So we got another new one today. The 24 piece are for 3+! With her love of puzzles, legos, taking things apart/putting them back together, Jim swears she’s going to be an engineer.</mom brag>
We put Windows Vista on our computer this weekend. I really like it so far. When Jim reformatted the computer, though, he forgot to copy some of the things I asked so I’ve spent the last few days recreating some impt. documents. Men.
<mama moment> I took E to Kohl’s yesterday to look for some summer clothes and a couple dresses. We went to the dressing rooms to try the dresses on. She was facing the three-way mirror and when I put the first dress on and looked at her reflection in the mirror, I started crying. She looked SO grown up. The dress really flatters her build and the colors looked good. My little girl is SO big!! *sigh* She loves that dress and has worn it yesterday and today. And we’ve gotten SO many compliments on it! (And it was just $11! ) Suddenly she seems SO big. I am loving this age. But where in the world did my itty bitty baby go??</mama moment>
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1 Vicki // Mar 22, 2007 at 1:07 pm
How sweet about the dress, and the jigsaw puzzles. This is just such a fun age.
2 Cory // Mar 24, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Can you BELIEVE how fast the time goes!?!? You blink and they’re all grown up.
Andy loves puzzles too and is a crackerjack at putting them together. We love this one brand by “Melissa and Doug”. They are real thick pieces so they are easy for chunky fingers to handle, and they have all levels of difficulty. Some are 24 piece, 48, or 100. Andy is up to the 100 piece ones and loves it. They are big, so you need plenty of tile floor space or table space to put them together, but they are really nice and very durable.
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