jeez - I'm so behind!

Okay - I kept saying I'm going to blog more, but didn't. LOTS of things have changed.

The move to Atlanta didn't happen. Lots of turmoil here - relationship-wise and work-wise. Luckily, things are working out relationship-wise - details of which will not be discussed here - but the work stuff is still in turmoil. We decided not to move to Atlanta - besides the fact we started to have "issues" and were unclear about our future, it just wasn't cost effective. $800 a month for day care here for twins verses $2200 int Atlanta with a waiting list of minimum of 6 months, and $600 a week for a nanny until we got into daycare - well, you do the math! So I took severance and took a few months to decide what to do. Plus since I had 48 weeks of severance and treatment for my Hepatitis C took 48 weeks, that seemed like the perfect time to take care of it. So now I'm Hep C free! Hooray! (I didn't have it very bad to begin with, just kept testing positive with low levels of the virus.)

So now I'm taking classes and trying to get into nursing school. I'm waiting for the yeah or nay vote from the school. If I get in, I'll start in January. If not, I'll get into medical billing and coding and the digitization of medical records. I'm taking Chemistry, Microbiology and Anatomy 2 right now. As it turns out, I'm kinda glad I don't work at CNN any more - having heard the changes they made in the department, I would NOT be happy there any more.

Duncan looked for work for ages and the only job he got offered was to be a night cab dispatcher in Atlanta 4 nights a week. So he commutes up there 4 days a week and is home 3 days a week. He likes the work, the pay sucks and he misses the boys terribly while he's gone. We keep hoping for something closer for him, but several things have prevented him from finding anything suitable here. In this economy, even though the expense of him being away from home and commuting that far eats up half his check, it's better to be able to say you have a job than don't have one.

Logan - my sweet beautiful Logan! What can I say! That boy has grown so fast. He's now as tall as my chin! He needed all new clothes for school this fall because he outgrew the ones from last year. He's now a Webelo Cub Scout and is a real go getter in scouting. He says he wants to go all the way and become an Eagle Scout. If he does, he would be the first boy in this pack to go all the way. It's relatively new pack, but the Cub Master and Assistant Cub Master were both Eagle Scouts and are terrific guys. I asked him what he would say if someone called him a nerd for being in scouts. He said, "So what? I'm a nerd. If L L Cool J can be a scout and be cool, why can't the rest of us? Indiana Jones, Mike Rowe, Bill Gates, and lots of presidents and astronauts are scouts too." Logan has gotten all As since kindy, too. If we can only tear him away from those darn video games, there's no telling what he'll do! He does say that he wants to be a builder when he grows up and volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama. (Ah, I love that boy!)

Malcolm is a huge chatter - he loves to talk. He talks like a 4 year old to me. He's a good helper and likes to help me do laundry or help Boop (my mom) pull weeds. Andrew is a cutie, but sometimes a handful. He's A LOT like his daddy! Smart, but a little devil at times. He's not as talkative due to having so many ear infections as a baby, but he's very skillful with manipulating toys or figuring out how things work. He also is a tumble weed and can do a somersault with no hands. They're both very huggy little boys and they ADORE their big brother Logan and their Daddy.

With all the financial turmoil going on, we moved out of our house in Loxley and in with my parents who lived nearby. It's a little tense occasionally with so many people and different personalities, but in the long run it's going to be good for us all. With Duncan gone during the week, I need help with the boys while I go to school. And with me not working, we couldn't afford to live in our house any more. This was the only option we have for now. I'm guessing when I finish schooling and can get a job, then we'll move out on our own. Not exactly what I would have thought we would be doing at this stage in our lives, but we just have to motor on through the turmoil given the economy.

So that sort of catches me up todate. I need to upload some pictures and start posting more though! I hope I'll do better.