Life Lately

I was all excited last time I posted about this whole Music Mondays thing, thinking, "Surely I can commit to blogging once a week!"

Um, or not, apparently. Oops.

Here's what life's been like lately here:

So I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but I basically am a hermit whenever it's time for report cards. I'm a hermit to the tenth power when report cards coincide with P/T conferences. This time I also had to enter a whole quarter's worth of grades into our online system since it took me a) nearly a quarter to figure it out and b) a simple email exchange with the lovely helpdesk to get my grading scales correct on there. But I survived and things went (fairly) well despite the crunch.

After getting through that general craziness we took a road trip last weekend. It was Scout's first car ride that was longer than 10 minutes.We have now learned the difference between his potty whine and his "I've never been in the car this long and don't know what to do with myself right now and why am I clipped to this seat belt because now I can't roam where ever I want to and I don't like it" whine. Let me just say that when your long road trip begins with a solid 15 minutes of whining you questions your life choices a little. It wasn't too long before Danny taught Scout how to live it up in the backseat by cozying up and falling asleep, and Scout only did some minimal chewing on the seat belts and seat cover, so it all worked out. Squirt got the boot from the backseat, though, and rode either in my lap or on the floor by my feet...not that he minded as long as he had a blankie to snuggle into. (Pictures to come another time...)

I know there will always be people that think we're crazy for having 3 dogs and who think we are even crazier for taking all 3 on the road, but we're thankful that Scout has been relatively easy-going. We've had to do a lot of learning along the way so far and so has he, but there's nothing that affirms our choice like watching our boys get along so well together.

Tim's been busy on the house again, too. He finished up around our new door to the backyard by mudding the new drywall, painting, and adding trim. It looks awesome! Everything was cleaned up and nice again until one day I came home and two cabinet doors and drawers were missing and their contents were moved around. I couldn't complain for long, though, because Tim has been working like crazy to install our dishwasher. Our house currently has two -- Michelle and Tim -- but we thought a newer model would be nice. And guys, it's ALMOST DONE. I told him we won't know what to do with ourselves with our extra time. I may have to take up a new hobby! Or work on an old hobby again! Oh, the possibilities. :)

So on the agenda this weekend is cleaning in all the ways I've been behind for two weeks on cleaning and a few school things...along with the usual time with hubby and puppies...and it will be wonderful.