One Week Down...Three to Go!

Of the last phase of my husband's school that is.... I'm so excited about him being done and us (hopefully) being able to spend more time together as a family without the stress of him constantly needing to study. Not to mention the fact that sometime soon after that we will be moving! We are so ready to leave this place though we still don't have an exact date yet of when we will be leaving. I'm not sure how much longer after graduation we will be hanging around here to get things done around the house to prepare it for being rented out. Hopefully we will be able to get a lot done in the two weeks between classes ending and graduation so that we won't have to be here much longer afterward. I need a change of scenery.

There is still so much left to do before we move however. For example: sell the xTerra, find homes for the cats (Panda = YAY! Penny = :'( ), find someone to watch Quigley (our Australian Cattle Dog/Blue Heeler) for a couple of months until his FAVN bloodtest comes back negative and then stick him on a plane bound for Hawaii, find a place to board my horse for the next 3 or so years (I'm sad that I have to leave him for so long, but there is no way I can afford to have him shipped to and from Hawaii and he's such a good horse -- albeit untrained currently -- that we aren't really willing to part with him) -- and then drive him to wherever that may be, replace the carpet in the house, and find a property manager for the house. I'm sure there are many other things to be done in the next five or six weeks, but those are the highest on my priority list right now. I know that everything will come about in God's timing, I just can't wait until all of the animals are accounted for (they are my main concern).

On a totally different topic...one of my cousins had her second baby today -- a BEAUTIFUL baby boy! I'm so thrilled for them! They already have a little girl and she'd told me before that looking at pictures of Peanut Butter Cup was making her excited about having a boy. :-) I think being on the mom side of things now makes me more thrilled when I hear about someone else having a baby than it ever did before...maybe that is because now I understand and know how much love a parent has for their child and how amazing the whole experience of being a parent is. Babies and children are such a blessing! I'm so excited for my cousin, her family, and the new addition -- I can't even put into words how happy I am for them!

Speaking of precious baby boys...my little Peanut Butter Cup is still teething with no sign of the 'toofers' (ha ha) yet. Since I've never experienced a teething baby before I'm not sure if this means anything as to how much longer it will be before a tooth emerges, but for the past few days he has been pulling in his lower lip over his lower gums and just holding it there. Also, if I try to gently push his lip down so I can see the gums, he will pull his lip in like I just described and squeeze his mouth shut (it's so cute when he does it). If he decides that he wants my finger in his mouth though, in it goes. Yesterday he had my hand and he tried each of my fingers one by one -- starting with my pinkie and working his way towards my thumb. :-) He would put one finger in his mouth for a couple seconds, pull it out, look at it, grab the next finger, look at it, put it in his mouth, and so on and so forth. It was too funny! He was concentrating so hard. :-)

Well, I guess I'd better go try to get some sleep before Peanut Butter Cup wakes up. Goodnight everyone!