Odds and Ends

Well, Thomas is officially finished at Chili's, and I for one am very happy. It was nice to have the extra cash coming in, but I find greater fulfillment out of our time at home than with anything that extra money could buy. Also, with the greater responsibility I have at work with the committees means we REALLY need him to be home in the evenings so we can have time together now that I am away more.

We are starting to talk about buying a house. Nothing serious yet, but we are talking which is very exciting...and a little scary too. Since we know we don't want to stay here forever, we aren't sure if we want to buy now or not. However, if we stay four more years, we will have had a little time to build some equity into a home and that would allow us to be able to have a pretty good down payment on a home where ever we decide to move. Of course selling is always risky because you never know what the market will be when you want to move. Right now this area seems to be very much a buyers market, but that isn't good if you are trying to sell.

Possum is in his second session of swimming lessons, he has classes every Monday and Wednesday. He loves the classes, he takes them with my friends' daughter Grace and they are having fun. He is very daring, while Grace is more timid, so it has been interesting watching them progress. Speaking of Grace, when my friend was working a couple of weekends ago (Heather is also a nurse,) Grace got hold of a pair of scissors when her dad fell asleep on the couch and gave herself a haircut. Grace is three, she will be four in April, she is definitely not a hair stylist. Heather had to take her to get her hair "fixed."

Okay, so I am watching SVU as I am typing this, and John Munch is such a cynic. He is always going on about Big Brother, I think John and Thomas are related. Sofia is having "tummy time" while I am doing this and she is getting very unhappy. She doesn't like tummy time very much, but this isn't the first time I have had one of my children mad at me, and it won't be the last.

Tomorrow is grocery day, so it will be busy. We will go to BJ's and Kroger, and spend a fortune I am sure. We will go after swimming lessons, so we will have a long day. I am not too fond of our BJ's locally, which is a shame as the one in North Carolina was outstanding. I wish we had a Costco like we did in St. Louis, but there is not one close by, though there are rumors that one might be built.

Well, enough rambling for tonight.