So it's been awhile...

Sorry,
I know it has been a few months of nothing from me, but since so far I have no comments I figure no one would miss me and my misadventures in Texas.
Anyway, the past few months have been crazy, thus the no blogging.  Where did the time go?
As is typical, the end of any year goes by extremely fast with all the holidays, especially with kids and trying to wrangle them to holiday events, school, sports and of course the ever popular holiday pictures.

The end of October brought us warm weather for trick-or-treating and we had some friends from our play group over here for that.  It was a lot of fun, but the mosquitoes were out in full force.  Call me crazy, but I would much rather trick-or-treat in the snow than with bug bites.

November was crazy with school for the 5 year-old and his soccer games.  Did I mention we have all day kindergarten and I love it?!  For Thanksgiving we ran the local Turkey trot, I pushed the kiddos in a stroller for the 5K, hubby ran the 10K with his brother who was visiting and they also ran the 1 mile fun run with C.  I was so proud of him because he ran the whole mile.  Must not be my kid though...he loves running and I don't.  For Thanksgiving dinner we thought we would go Southern and cooked a turkey wrapped in bacon on the grill.  It was awesome, but then again, anything with bacon always is.

Of course December brought Christmas and this year we traveled to PA to visit family.  I travel with the kids alone all the time, but told my husband he had to travel with us and not meet us there because the airport would be a madhouse and I was right.  Weather is always a factor when traveling up north in the winter, but we did well.  It did snow twice while we were there and of course I fell in it on the way to a holiday party!  The boys loved it though and my older son really misses it.  S had his second ear infection just in time to fly home, but thankfully we were able to start him on antibiotics.

January was back to the grind for school for my older son and for me.  Then S had his third ear infection so in early February he had tubes placed and he's been better ever since.  I didn't realize how much he wasn't talking until the tubes were in and he could finally hear!  What a bad mom I am.  He had some words, but certainly not as many as big brother and I just figured they were different kids and he was on par whenever we went to the peds doc and they asked the "milestone" questions.  Wow!  Apparently, I have two talkers for kids, because he talks all the time. (Wonder where they get it from?)  I still don't understand everything he says the first time he says it, but it is getting better and his yelling and screaming has calmed down.  I was so worried about choosing to give him surgery, but now I am so glad we did.

That is all for now.  More to come though as I am taking a hiatus from school.

Take care Y'all!
Bluebonnet Yankee