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July 25, 2004
Things are not so bad when you have a song from church stuck in your head all day... "Sing to the mountains, sing to the sea... Raise your voices, lift your hearts... This is the day the Lord has made, let all the earth rejoice!"
It seems like I am having somewhat of a problem keeping up each week. It could be because I am totally lazy these days – or that I have spent more time cleaning my house than on the computer lately.
Well, let’s see… I have some things to update, but not too much. I will start with the girls since I never seem to spend enough time talking about them in this diary. I am afraid, though, that I will rush through and not give an accurate depiction of their wonder and amazingness since there are so many other things on my mind.
Veronica
This girl is so smart. I am amazed at her grasp of math – at 3, she is doing addition and subtraction on a regular basis. I am not saying she is some kind of genius or anything, but her ability to learn and retain things amazes me. She counts in Spanish to 20 and English to almost 100. She heard some new songs the other day and remembers every word – she only heard them twice! She is a bossy little thing, always telling on her little sister and telling me what I should and should not be doing. She always makes sure that everyone has their seatbelts on before the car starts moving and is so helpful with the smaller children when we are with friends. She is anxious to start school in a few weeks and tells me at least once a week that she wants to “move to Florida and live with our people there.” She asks Adam every day what he did at work – she wants to hear every detail from breakfast until the time he arrived back home. She cracks me up and always knows how to make me smile.
Ana
She is in the thick of the “terrible twos”. I can’t believe how this child behaves at times. Only at home, though, when we are out she is mostly well-behaved. She is so sweet looking and so beautiful, but such a spitfire and awfully rambunctious. She had her appointment with the specialist and for the first time in 5 months her ears were clear! This means that finally, the infection is eradicated! However, due to the recent activity in her ears and her health, if she gets another infection, we schedule surgery for tubes – we don’t even need to see the ENT again before the pre-op appointment. We may have the test this week as Veronica seems to be coming down with a cold – this is when Ana gets the ear infections – right when she is in the midst of an upper respiratory cold. Back to the good stuff: Ana is hearing perfectly and her speech is at a level above her peers (probably because her older sister does not ever close her mouth) – she is talking so well and I can’t believe how early she seems to be having conversations. She wakes up with a great big smile on her face, laughing hysterically and is non-stop until she falls exhausted into bed at the end of the day. She knows how to melt our hearts in a way that prevents the certain doom she earns through her testing behavior. She is definitely my challenging child, but brings such joy along with the frustration, it is hard not to love her. :)
Okay… Now onto me and us and family and all that… I don’t know if I talked about my cousin coming for another week. Well, she did. And it was harder this time. She is 14 going on 15 and in spite of us having a fabulous time while she was here in June, she seems to have reverted a bit. She was lazy and moody and generally not pleasant to have around. Instead of it helping, it just made me want to kick her to the curb after the first day. Knowing that I have been feeling a bit out of sorts lately, I cut her some slack. It didn’t help. It is nice that we were able to go on a date one night and to church for a meeting another night, but the days were long and frustrating for me and I felt like I was doing dishes nonstop. I finally told her that she needed to get her act together or we wouldn’t invite her to come back. She was upset, but must have understood that I meant business because she did the dishes that day and cleaned up her room the next. Anyway… I do love her and want her to come back – I believe she must have been having a particularly rough teenage week.
Me
I am feeling better. Not every day, but certainly almost every day. I have some days still where my patience is so thin that I could leave the girls in their room until Daddy comes home – sliding food under their door and letting them entertain themselves. I, of course, don’t do that, no matter how strong the draw is. :) Those are the days that they watch too many movies (more than one is always too much). We have been going to the pool a few times a week and those days, naptime is rockin’. We all just about pass out after being in the sun and splashing in the water. I am taking half of the lowest dose of Xanax and it helps me sleep at night and I am much nicer because of it. I am starting to wake up at night again, so I may increase to a full dose a couple nights a week just to help me through the night until my mind starts to settle down again. I am overall doing much better and it helps having a clearer perspective on things. Which leads me to…
The Job
Adam has applied for jobs all over the eastern part of the country. He actually has an interview this week for a job in southern Georgia. This job would put us only a few hours away from our family in FL, but I am not sure I want to live in such a small town. I also don’t know about the quality of the hotel, so we will wait and see. He goes on Tuesday down there – quite a drive for a job interview – 3.5 hours one way. He has heard back from another place, but that won’t happen because he actually interviewed with them over a year ago (they weren’t advertising for the job with their company name – it was through a headhunter) and they weren’t crazy about his 3rd party-administered personality profile test. Whatever. What can you tell from something like that that is conducted over the phone. They never even gave him feedback and he was confused about some of the questions – the wording was intentionally vague. Weird. Anyway… There is a position in his company that may come available in TX. If it comes available, it is most likely his. This means we have to move again, which I am okay with. It also means we will be 1200 miles from our family, which I am not so okay with. I have already mapped out the route and happily, we have friends that live about halfway, so maybe they will let their house be the midpoint/overnight stay portion of our trip home at Thanksgiving. I am not supposed to be telling ANYONE about this potential opportunity in TX, so if you are reading this and you know me in real life, please respect that this is confidential information and don’t share it – not even with your sister or mom. We won’t know anything about TX until late August, so it is hard to be too anxious about it. It is all out of our control. He is qualified, the guy there wants Adam, and aside from the formality of an interview and a visit to the property, he’s going to take it if it is available.
Well, I am now on page 3 in Word, so I am going to sign off for now and say that I miss activity here on MT. I haven’t had many posting to my TTM board, but appreciate those of you who do take the time. I have submitted pictures over and over again and haven’t had any posted to my diary at all. It is frustrating, but at the same time, I am totally cool with just being lazy about this diary and picking it up when I can, so if that is how others here will treat me, that is okay too. Lol Anyway, I wish for you all a good evening and a blessed week. I will keep you posted if there is anything to share.
Many Blessings,
Holly
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