We Are Having a Slow Month.

Oh my goodness, ya'll. I cannot hardly believe that I haven't been in the hospital for a whole fabulous month with Princess B.

I should tell you that my house is clean and my laundry is caught up and that I've been getting lots of sleep. But well... my Momma taught me not to lie.

I will say this. I am more caught up than I've been in a very long time.

Embrace sloppy success, right?

I did enjoy celebrating my birthday this past weekend with the hubby (date 51!) before he started the Criminal Justice Academy. A Japanese dinner, a cupcake, and some of the Office on dvd... the evening was fabulous. And it wasn't spent in the hospital, which is always a plus around here.

Big D started the academy this week... rather unexpectedly... which is another tale in of itself, but anyway, he has spent the past few days sweating, vomiting (gross!), running, studying, and test-taking. And he has spent the evenings groaning, moaning, washing, ironing, starching, and polishing. It will be a long 11 weeks, but he is doing a great job!

I've been feverishly working to finish up this semester so that I can maybe possibly enjoy life for a month before starting spring semester. One 17-page paper done, the other in the works.

Savannah has been cracking us all up with her funny tales and silly sayings. I have the first parent-teacher conference of the year with her teacher on Thursday and I must confess that I am a bit nervous. Who knows what she has been saying about me. For example, yesterday at the dentist they turned on the Disney channel for her, to which she informed them that "My mom doesn't let me watch that junk after 10 am." Thanks, sweetie. Great honesty. Now we'll work on tact.

Brooklyn is a bundle of energy with an emerging personality. Her therapy keeps us running in all directions (4 days per week) and she isn't eating much right now so we are doing weight checks and labs too. Sigh. And we are keeping our fingers crossed because as delightful as the holidays probably are in the hospital, we'd really like to spend them at home, pleaseandthankyou. We are headed back up to Cincinnati in a few weeks for further testing and meeting with the developmental specialist, neurologist, and feeding team. After that, maybe, possibly, hopefully... we might get released to every three months visits. But I didn't say that out loud.

That is all that is going on in my house. We are having a slow month.