Reminiscing, Goals and Tributes

This is what our lives have been like the past 2 weeks:

1. Our bedroom became the laundry room. Yes! We sprawled our dirty laundry all over the floor of our bedroom and washed a load here and there when we ran out of clothes. I know it sounds gross, but it really was effective.
2. A severe case of carpal tunnel. OUCH! My wrist hurts, my fingers ache and my arms are dead. Have you ever laid in bed with a heating pad on your wrist? They weren't quite made for that - If I never write a paper again, it will be too soon. . .or will it? I miss school already (ha ha. . .you don't really believe me do you?)
3. We started throwing away recyclable material. I know! We're awful. Don't tell Jeremey Willson. . .shhh
   
4. We still found time for television. Shows you what our priorities are, huh?
5. I found myself making more things for dinner that I could pull out of the freezer than ever before in my life (pizza, lasagna, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, hot pockets. . .o.k. you get the picture)
   
6. Justin went three or four nights without sleeping and I did it once. Bless that no-doze and diet Pepsi-Max. I don't know how he does it. I get less than 8 hours sleep and I'm a monster...no, really. I am. Ask Justin. Ideally, I would get 9 hours a night, but that doesn't always happen. After the kids came along. . .Oh, wait. This isn't a blog post about my sleep schedule. Sorry!
7. We spent numerous hours and over $100 to get graduation announcements out. Why? So we could BRAG about making it through college in two years with two kids! WOW! Go us.

So now we embark on the last week of classes in our undergraduate educations. Justin's pretty much done, but I have a few more projects to finish. Our goals for the week are to:

1. Clean the bathrooms (don't even ask how long it's been)
   
2. Cook an actual dinner for our kids (we found out instant oatmeal for dinner doesn't count, even though it's warm and nutritious)
3. Get the laundry done (it's getting hard to close the door to our closet now that it's off our bedroom floor and shoved into the coat closet)
4. Finish classes this week with our sanity intact.

This has been such an adventure! We are so grateful for wonderful, resilient kids who have put up with us the last two and a half years.

Tonight Ema asked Justin, "When will we be able to do something fun?" When Justin responded about the fun day they had yesterday she said, "No, I mean fun with ALL four of us".

Thanks to all of you who have helped us get through this semester - we really couldn't have done it without you!

Especially those who have helped with the kids - katie and jeremey, cooper and amanda, damaris and steven, steve and lynette, joy and robert, angie and ryan - thank you!

We Love You!