So many things have happened in a relatively short time-frame. And, while I do realize that most of you OBSESSIVELY check your Google Readers or Inbox for my updates, I realize that some post may slip through as you attend to your own busy daily lives (HOW DARE YOU, YOU KNOW? WEREN’T YOU INFORMED THAT THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND MOI? NO? WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE A BETTER LISTENER?) So, I’ve prepared an update post to catch some of you slackers up-to-date. We’ll call it…

My Summer In Bullet-Points:

• In March, Sir lost his job. Abruptly. With no severance pay. My blog also had it’s first birthday. There was no connection between the two.
• In April, we canceled Lala’s birthday party and any other festivities.
• March and April were pretty awful and scary for us – you know, with me being 8 months pregnant and no job and such.
• I got baptized on Easter…which was also Lala’s birthday.
• We joined a new church
• We made new friends and got to spend some awesome quality time with them
• Experienced labor with my first ever doula and friend who totally rocks
• I became a mother again to another baby girl, Rora
• Sir and I celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary
• Sir played lots of softball, serving as the pitcher
• Planted a garden that gave us a total of maybe 3 regular sized tomatoes, 4 Roma tomatoes and 3 cucumber squash (think yellow cucumbers)
• I got a job that allows me to serve my God and community AND keep my family a priority
• Went to BlogHer
• Became a Pampered Chef Consultant
• Published another article in a well-known series of book
• We gave up our beloved family dog, knowing that she’d be better served by a family not always on the move and with a family that could provide a bit more stability than we could.

This Saturday, I’ll be 24. It’s crazy to look back over this past summer (and beyond) to see the things we’ve mourned over and the things we’ve triumphed over. In a couple of days, we are supposed to meet with a real estate agent to decide what our best course of action is with this house. We are both so torn. This place has come to be a place of comfort…but, it’s too far away from the PEOPLE we love. We don’t know what our next move will be and make no promises that we’ll even know by Wednesday.

I’m currently pursuing going back to school. However, finances won’t allow me to do this on my own, so we’ll see what God works out in that area. TENTATIVELY, I have about a third of it paid for by Federal Grants, but need about 8,000 more dollars to finish up a Psychology Degree.

Soon, we’ll have to find homes for our 2 indoor male cats. These are the only remaining pets we have, and I was so hoping that some loving arms would find their way to us so we wouldn’t have to place them in a shelter. Unfortunately, it seems like this will be our only option as Lala begins to show more signs of allergies (and mine seem to be resurfacing) and as we prepare to move.

Then, there’s Sir, who slugs through the pain each day to try and do “normal” activities and the daddy he wants to be to his daughters. We’re about to embark on a completely separate journey regarding that, but unfortunately I may not be able to write about it for a while.

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