aaah to still be in my pajamas...

HELLO!  I am so happy today!  OK, I was a little grumpy this morning, because I was out late at the hospital last night with my brother (more on that later), and I did not want to get up this morning when Shea came to wrestle with me in bed.  Anyway, I still haven't heard back about how my position will work out at my old job, but I might not hear back until the end of the week, so I'm trying to be patient!  I started packing again, and I am totally shocked that I am sharing a picture of what our main living area looks like right now.  It is a mess!

I received so many flowers on my last day of class, too.  I have them everywhere, which makes me happy, except they just add to the chaos a little bit!  At least its a pretty chaos, I suppose.  My last day at 4's was a little emotional for me.  Not so much because I was going to miss the kids - I will, but its not devastating for me.  More so because I'll miss working with Audree, and it feels like the closing of a season of our life.  I'm excited to move forward....it just got to me a little bit.  One of the moms made a book for each of us where they interviewed each kid asking them questions about us.  One girl said that in my spare time, I spend it trying to "keep my baby from crying", and another "playing with my husband".  Another girl said that I live "in a house with her son, and maybe even with her family".    It was so cute and thoughtful!  I felt totally overwhelmed by everything.  And now, its over!  I'm done!  No more work for a little bit - other than packing :)  One girl picked out this pretty scarf for me which I wore yesterday (with my new earrings that I got at forever 21 the other day).

This morning, I went out and hung the clothes on the line (I've been doing this for the past 5 loads of laundry, because our dryer doesn't stop on its own and one day I forgot about it and ran it for 6 hours!  Our electricity bill has been so high, I'm trying to make it up by hanging the clothes.  Plus, I kind of like doing it.).  And Shea played outside...in the dirt, as usual.

OH yes, and here I am in my strange outfit.  Nightie + leggings + random sweatshirt = what happens when you don't want to get dressed but need to be modest enough to be in your backyard.  Comfy at any rate.

And lastly, my 16 year old brother, Matt, has been in the hospital since Saturday night.  He has been in a lot of pain and they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him.  I was there last night for a couple of hours, and the poor kid is just so not himself at all.  He could barely smile and is miserable, but still has stayed so polite to everyone.  Turns out he most likely has a ruptured appendix.  I don't know how they didn't catch it, they "ruled it out" early on, and even now its not conclusive from the cat scan, but he could die if they wait too long and that is the issue.  They're transferring him to Children's hospital in Seattle now, and he will probably be going into emergency surgery, because worst case if it isn't his appendix, they'll just take it out and know for sure that's not it.  If you could keep him in your prayers, and my mom...she is really a wreck after being the hospital for four days being told it isn't his appendix and now hearing all of this.  Especially since she had a relative who died from a ruptured appendix.