Bloggin Slacker

I have good intentions to blog frequently, but life kind of happens and it doesn't happen. I have a rare moment of quiet at home right now and thought I should take advantage of it. Hannah is at school, Isaac is finishing up his nap in my bed (it started in the car on the way home from preschool) and the baby must be asleep because I am not currently being kicked and punched! This is a moment to cherish! Rather than trying to figure out if something died under the porch, I will sit at the computer and write. I think writing is a much better option!

The back porch does stink and I do think some animal crawled under it and died. The plug in air freshener is helping, but it still is pretty bad. The hot weather hasn't helped the situation either. The problem is that getting under the porch to check it out isn't an easy task. Maybe this weekend Aaron can pry off some boards and look around.

We are finally over the swine flu in our house. Aaron and I have remained healthy while Hannah and Isaac had a good week of feeling pretty yucky. All in all, it wasn't that bad. I would say that ear infections were much harder to deal with than this flu. It certainly wasn't as bad as I was expecting with all the hype. If I catch it, I do have to go on antiviral meds just to make sure there aren't complications. I'm not worried.

Other than that, life has been back to the school year routine. I'm enjoying teaching 5 days a week and Isaac loves preschool. Hannah is having a great time at Kindergarten, though she is having some difficulty getting use to the full days. She is extremely tired at the end of the school day and 6pm melt downs have been common. We have also had to wake her up most mornings even when she has fallen asleep by 6:30 the night before. She was sick last week, so that didn't help, but I can tell the days are long. Hopefully she will adjust to it in the next few weeks.

The kids did enjoy time at the Palouse Empire Fair and really liked the rodeo! I LOVE the rodeo. Aaron hasn't been to many of them, but he watches with me! The kids were also very excited for Sunday School to start up. I was excited to see that they each have several other children in their classes. It's so fun to see them excited to go to Sunday School!

I hope to blog again soon. The leaves will start falling in the next few weeks and I always get great pictures of the ids in the fall leaves, so I'll be posting those! Hopefully I'll blog again before that...