Yeppers, it’s been awhile. Lots has gone on, lots has changed.

School started in August, wooohooo! After a while, Suzanne stopped crying and Ethan finally started using the bathroom at school (after the threat of no electronics after school came into play) things finally settled in their routine.

The big yehaw news is that I got a new job! Yes, that is why I have disappeared off the face of the internet. The big wide world of full time employment tends to do that to people. Naturally, like any mother, when faced with rearranging priorities, the mother continually slides down the scale of importance and then she finds herself looking at a blog that hasn’t been updated in eons!

The good news is that although I’m neglecting my blog outlet, it’s due to enjoying working, enjoying getting to know new people, enjoying driving two hours a day, and then embracing my family time for all they are worth when I am at home.

I have to give a big pat on the back to my hubby during this adjustment time. He has really stepped up and become Mr. Dad during the week in new ways. He is now in charge of getting the kids off the bus, helping them with their homework, keeping them on a bathing schedule, and getting dinner ready for the evening. Luckily, his part time hours at the church really allow him to be flexible, so he has also experienced first hand staying home with sick kids, and scrambling to get snacks to school for various parties. I always knew I had married the perfect man for me, and he has really proved to be worth his weight in gold these last two months. Love you honey!

Now more about my job. I really was looking for part-time work, but nothing was going well. A few posts ago, I wrote about being a pair of penny loafers in a flip flop and high heel world. Well, I found out about a job opening, decided that even though it was full time that if God wanted me there, he’d put me there, and lo n’ behold He did, and He did it fast! I started the day after Labor Day and have smiled on the way to work ever since.

I don’t want to spell out the name of the business b/c I don’t want my blog to come up when people search for it, however, I can tell you that it is a great place to work! There are homes for kids who are abused or who have been in the penal system and need some readjustment time before entering the ‘real’ world again. While I don’t work at the site of the homes, I work in the administration side of things as an Administrative Assistant and Board Liaison. The liaison part is a fancy title that means I arrange for the board meetings and take minutes. hehe! Anywho, just knowing that I help the CEO do her job means that indirectly I help kids get taken care of. The mission statement of the job I work at is “to show Christ’s healing love to youth and families in crisis”. So on top of helping kids, I’m working at an organization that recognizes Christ and wants to show his HEaling LOVE to hurt people! That’s just awesome!!

Of course, there are all the other bonuses, like insurance, retirement, and for the first time ever, I get paid to take lunch! SwaaawEET! I’ve never had a job that did that before!

Other than that big life change, other big things going on include my son being ultra smart (is that new?) and my daughter being ultra sassy (she’s chanting “I kicked him in the nuts” while boxing on our new Wii).

Other things our family has done lately is Josh and I went to a Wee Kirk church conference in Oklahoma, and then we took the kids to cabin on the Buffalo River and saw the beautiful Fall foliage. Oh, and it has been raining like nobody’s business here in Arkansas. Someone joked that we finally figured out why it was called “Ark”insaw b/c we’d all need boats before it was over with.

So what’s new with you??

Oh, and Keith, if you are reading this…”Hi!” lol!

I promise I will update this weekend! Three months is wAaaay too long!!