thanks to my sister's poor memory skills, while figuring out where she was 10 years ago I realized that this week 10 years ago I became pregnant with Elijah.

Absolutely, more than any other event of my life, being pregnant with Eli changed me the most. Granted, I did not know about him yet, it would take until the week of valentines to let the nagging little tendrils convince me to buy a pregnancy test.

But this is the week that started it all. This week ten years ago saw the conception of my family.

January.... saw Brandon leave on his first pipelining job in Louisiana, and I began my stint of *only parent at home*. Ean managed to make it to 7 years old.
February... My life became about remembering to walk to the store before it got to hot and praying really hard that we would be able to leave Arizona before the weather was really too hot.
March... B and I spend our 9th anniversary apart. As well as his birthday. I start packing, and the last week of March we leave AZ for CO.
April...B is home in time to help me find a house here. :) he spends all of April home. I turn 29.
May...we get used to walking everywhere we go...again. Ivory and the girls come to see me!
June... Ivory and the girls leave. so sad! The boys and I leave for Kansas to visit w/ b
July... I am nearly killed by a drunk teamsters fireworks. Get to bring the car home and drive a little over 800 miles in a day to get home.
August... Im sure something of worth happened in aug, but I just can not think of anything!
September ... Back to school. Using a curriculum for the first time. supplement it excessively.
October... Back to Kansas! Dad came with us and we celebrated Elijah turning 9 at a NASCAR race. Drove back home and back to real life.
November... All of November turns into *countdown till dad gets home*. B gets home the last week of nov, and there was much rejoicing.
December... and here we are.

I do not know how long B will pipe line, as long as the economy holds this way anyhow, but this year taught me that we will be ok. No matter what we have to do to make it work.
We a zillion times better off today than we were the same day a year ago.

rearranged the school room (aka, the back hallway) today. Hopefully it will work better this way.

B and dad should be home late tonight. yay.

I am considering pizza for dinner...

Yesterday, beside a little retail therapy, I pretty much just laid around.

oops just missed a call from B and dad... and from the sound of my message, dad cannot figure out how to end call w/the iphone. lol.

I am not entirely sure I have ate anything more than a pickle today... off to raid the cabinets....

wow. this will make 3 post for December. Im pretty full of win.

B and dad left this AM for Reno to pick up the Jeep. I did my best not to pout and carry on like a little girl that I did not get to go. Tina is working this week and since I am her baby sitter, i need to stay here. That and since she is my sitter, my kids would be home alone when she worked... and while I have left them for ~an hour here and there, im afraid that they are too young to hang out for a whole shift.

so yeah, home alone with the kids.
again.

We were going back to school today (so we can be finished w/school by june) but I decided if B was going to get the jeep I was going to lay in bed all day. That and both the boys and my dad both exclaimed "You're making them/us go back before the 1st!" last night when I told the boys to go to bed, as school was in the AM. Thanks dad. :p I do find it ironic that the man that teases that he will call the truancy officer if the boys are not doing their school work when he stops by in the morning, gave the kids ammunition to stay off school for another week.

as far as school goes, Eli is reading much much better, and Ean is starting to give a damn. Both of their writing skills are lacking, but that is mainly because I can barely read their chicken scratch. Elijah id determined to start public school next year. I keep going back and forth between being happy that he WANTS to do it and terrified for him. I hated school. Not the lessons or homework, but the other kids and being the new girl EVERY.SINGLE.YEAR. really drained all the joy out of school. So yeah, half of me is excited for him, and the other half is nervous for him. :|

Christmas was great, as always.

aghhhhhh! the darn kids are really working on my last nerve.

I wonder if there is some way I could convince them to sleep for the next 2 days...