I’ll give it a shot!

I could wait to write this sentence, but I do not want to! I am going to go to the lil girls room and then make a full-hearted attempt at writing a complete and up to date blog about the goings on around here!

Ok, let’s assume that all my readers already know the basics. I’m 36.5 weeks pregnant with my 3rd child and really really ready for it to be born!! Lol
 
As far as day to day life:
 
Yani (who has decided to go by the name Anya for her 4th grade year) started school two weeks ago. She is, as usual, falling into it with her standard aplomb. Her teacher informed me (at the family night function on Thursday) that Yani is an excellent student and has no problems keeping up scholastically or socially in the class.
Now, I have always viewed 4th grade as an elementary grade. However, here in the teensy little town we live in, it is considered Middle School. Elementary is K-3, Middle is 4-6, and Jr/Sr High is 7-12. This is most confounding to me! I am not ready for her to be a ‘middle schooler’ and I know for a fact that I will unwilling and unable to face her being a ‘high schooler’ in 7th grade. So, yes, I intend to move before such atrocities are visited on my fragile psyche. J
 
(side note: as I’m typing all this, I’m frequently stopping to take bites from a yummy strawberry cheesecake that aforementioned unborn baby has decided it wanted to eat! I’m so glad my tastes and it’s coincide)
 
Ok, Miles starts pre-school on Tuesday. I’m pretty torn between being SO ready for it and being so NOT ready for it. I know he needs the socialization and interaction and I want him to have it. He’s pretty ready for kindergarten as far as knowledge goes, but he has no real interaction with kids his age. On the flip side, he’s my baby. That’s all. I just don’t want my baby to be growing up. I’ve been looking at pictures that I have saved and stuff on the computer and we have them ranging from birth to recent and I miss that little bugger. But seriously, he’s ready to go. He gets to get on a bus at 8:30 and ride to the school. Then spend all day with friends and the teacher, learning and playing. And it’s back on a bus to come home at 1:30. So I’ll have 5 hours of ‘me’ time. Time to catch up on housework and correspondence and bills and then once el nino is born, time to take care of a newborn! Lol
 
Let’s see, what else? Oh yeah.
 
Robert (my lil bro) has been helping out financially quite a bit. He’s down in Virginia awaiting his A-school starting for the US Navy. He should be done by the middle of October and plans for a 2 week leave before being sent to his first duty station. We are all hoping desperately that it’s not Iraq. He was told there’s a 60% chance that it could be. He’d much rather have Japan or something. Can’t say I blame him! Evidently, the army is a bit short on it’s availability of soldiers to do the tours over there, so they’re starting to send sailors. L If praying is your sort of thing, please pray for him and his safety, as well as the safety of the soldiers/sailors that are already over there.
 
Chrys (the baby bro) is a sophomore in HS now. L And he acts like it. With all the crap that goes with that. It’s a constant battle around my mom’s house with his attitude. I just noted to him today that he acts like he’s smarter than everyone he’s ever met. He didn’t take it well, but honestly, it’s hard for me to hold my tongue when someone has an obvious attitude problem. And his is more obvious than an elephant in a chicken coop. (does that mark me as being a Midwesterner?!) He has a girlfriend, Taylor, that I think is adorable, but they ‘fight’ all the time. Not out and out fighting, but the obnoxious bickering that only teenagers can do. He ‘feels’ like she doesn’t care about him and she ‘feels’ like he’s suffocating her. I told them both that I ‘feel’ like they should get over it and shut the hell up! Lol Ok not really. I’ve told them both to chill out and stop acting like they’re married. They’re not and should just try to enjoy being friends and stop worrying so damn much about commitment. They don’t need it right now and I’m not entirely sure either one of them even understands it. Hell, I don’t understand it most of the time!!!
 
Ok, I’m sure this seems abrupt but the kiddos are hollering for food (sheesh, I know I fed em last week!!!) and I got to get them off to bed soon anyway.
 
Love you all and feel free to leave copious amounts of notes. Or just email me!
 
Tia