Work, vacation, school and play. That's what we've done in the last month.Thanks for visiting!
In reality though the time has flown. Jason isn't in school yet for the next semester so he's been completing projects around the house. His major accomplishment is the riding lawn mower he picked up off craigslist for free. No, we don't need a riding lawnmower, but he's going to fix it up and then try to sell it. The people who gave it away were moving and didn't feel like doing to work themselves. We've got it pretty much diagnosed to the diaphragm in the carburetor. I know what but not where or how so don't ask me any more.
He also built steps for Alisabeth's playhouse (they're a little crooked, but get got all of the wood for free off craigslist and the nails too, so we'll fix it later.)
His latest accomplishment however is finding an old water leak in the basement that spread slowly through the walls. I, being the paranoid person that I am, decided to pull out the 4 bottom feet of the entire wall(s) which was effected just to make sure we've got it all. So he's torn apart our old bedroom and is cleaning it up and getting it ready and prepared for the time that we have the money saved to fix it. Because we're doing it all ourselves it isn't going to cost much at all, and as a bonus we're replacing the current insulation with a higher grade just cuz. Also there was no moisture barrier down there so we're going to put that in and we're still considering making some adjustments to the walls to include a better closet for that bedroom. . . I'll let you know what we decide.
As for me I've been auditting. School districts started and we're hitting them hard. The school district year end here is June 30 and because of requirements by the state they have to have an audit done and finalized with a good opinion before October if they want to get their money for the next year, but it takes at least a month for them to get everything from the previous year finalized and compiled for inspection, so we've got about a month and a half to perform comprehensive audits of 6 school districts with a team of all new people who have never auditted before (with the exception of Nick who went on a few as a helper last year). It's been a blast.
On the up side apparently I've been impressing my boss. Even though I have less experience than Nick I've been given a significantly larger portion of responsibility. . . I feel honored and sort of confused because I don't really think I do a lot more than him but my mom says to get over it so I'm trying to.
I also had some really exciting news in that I found out I was pregnant about two weeks ago. The down side is that I miscarried about four days later. I share this for two reasons, one it saves me from having to tell people in person which I really don't want to do, and because Jason and I both felt that this was God's way of telling us that pregnancy is possible (a fear we have had for more than a year) but that it's in his hands right now. We're okay with that.
As usual when I get stressed: I wrote a book. :)
I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but I did eventually turn in the first part of the other book I wrote to a publishing company. . . we'll see if they ever write back, but at least I did it.
Alisabeth has also been making strides. Because of school schedules she will start in preschool every day starting the second week of September. We're sad about this because I never wanted to put my kids in daycare like this, but it means that Jason will be able to focus and graduate by the summer of 2013 so we're just going to suck it up and do it. She's adjusted well to preschool and has a few good friends there so she no longer screams when we leave her. She also has one more week before she can take out her earrings and be able to wear different ones. She's excited. I adore that little girl.
That's us in a nutshell for the last month.
