Almost 6 months, again

I'm still here... Kind of. I think of this blog often. I have lots of things I want to write. I'd like to write about best and worst practices in parenting (not all mine). I'm trying to figure out how to do that. I am still teaching, but I'll be taking a break next semester and after I catch up with work (maybe by March???), I'll be able to think about writing here.

We're getting ready to enter a new era around here: adolescence. Little oNe will turn 13 soon. She was almost four when I started this blog.* I can't decide if I'll blog about adolescence or not. I'll probably blog about some things in general, but not in specific. I think I will learn a lot from my girls in the next few years; I have continually been learning from them, but I think the pace of my learning will accelerate as they get a little older.

Reminiscing...I have a friend who has 3 kids who are about the same spacing in age as our 3 are. Her oldest just turned 4 and her youngest is about 6 months.  It's crazy for her. I hadn't seen her in a while, and I commented on a FB post she made about how I remember those days and that it will get easier. She thanked me and said how hard it was when the all cry.  I remember.  This post was one of my lowest times. Maybe you can't really read and see how bad it was, but this blog does document for me so many memories.  I always wrote this blog for the family. I was lucky to meet a few kindred spirits along the way. Though I don't talk to them as often, I still count them as friends and am happy for the connection to them through blogging.




*Hey, I missed my blogoversy. Oops!  I guess I missed it in 2013, too.  It looks like I got it 2012.

Hey look! Here I am!

Wow... 6 months. I remember when I used to blog multiple times a day on this blog. Alas, times change. I've been super busy with work and teaching so I'm barely blogging anywhere right now. So why am I here?  An aura occurred. Yesterday. Morning. It wasn't very long. Zig-zaggy C on the left side. I've been feeling like I might get one for a couple of weeks. I've been taking my Co-Q10, but also forgetting. I think, after lots of stress, I might need to up the Co-Q10.

What else? We survived our first year of Middle School with oNe. She's 12 now. After the first trimester, I wrote and never published, how oNe was doing super well in school, but how she wasn't enjoying it. That's putting it mildly. She despises middle school. I hope it's better in 7th grade, but we'll see. She is doing well, academically, I just hope she can enjoy school a little.

twoK is a completely different kid than last year. She is 10. She made a new bff, and in the process came out of her shell and made several new friends at school. She's much more confident. She likes the new house! She did her first sleep over last night. I'm kind of shocked at how much she's changed in the last year. She's still my snuggly girl, but she's growing up. Oh, yea, and she looks like she's entering adolescence. She's going to beat oNe most likely. I'm not ready....

Three-a is my 8-year-old softball player. She's still my happy-go-lucky (too fun loving sometimes) girl. She's doing well in school, but is very much the kid everyone likes and not the studious kid. She's loving Star Wars (we're finally showing it to the girls) (serious Sci-fi geeks take the introduction of the classics to their children very serious).

MWH is still most wonderful. We'll see if I come back sooner than 6 months. I hate shutting this blog down, but slowly....