All. The. Things.

Can't believe I haven't blogged in over 2 weeks.  Life has been busy, busy and we've had just a few things going on (sarcasm anyone?).  As any full-time working mom of two little ones can likely tell you, there is never enough time in the world to do everything/anything as it seems lately!  Unfortunately, the realities of working full-time, maintaining a house, and keeping two littles alive and healthy doesn't leave much quality time to actually spend just hanging out with those little people. I would be lying if I said that fact has been really getting me down lately.  After stressing and worrying about it for months, we decided to do something about it. 

We realized the two things bothering me the most have been the lack of space in our current home and the fact that I feel like I spend very little time with the boys every day.  SO... we put our house on the market and I asked my boss to go part-time.  60% time to be exact.  Surprisingly, he was actually cool with it which I am so grateful for.  The details haven't been worked out yet, i.e. when I will start part-time, exact hours I will work every day, etc. but I'm hopeful that this will help me out with the time factor. 

Supposedly, in our area, homes are flying off the market and right now there is nothing listed in the same price range which is hopefully good.  We pray that ours goes quickly and also that we are able to find something a little older and a little bigger which would hopefully take some of the stress off.  It's so much work preparing the house for showings with two very little ones that we don't plan to leave it on the market forever.  If it doesn't sell within a certain amount of time that we have set for ourselves, then we will take it off and try again next year. Maybe it's just not the right time.

Along with the house and the part-time decision, we also have had a few other things on our plates:

* Our sweet baby Eli was baptized last Saturday.  It was a beautiful day and we were lucky enough to have our friends and family able to join us.  Our Church does it during the weekend masses and we shared the day with one other little one.  We rented a banquet room at a nearby hotel, and planned a dinner afterwards with our relatives, so I was busy preparing the food and cake for the celebration.  Eli received a lot of beautiful gifts and we are so grateful.  I'm hoping to get around to posting some pictures soon.

*  We took one of our dogs to the vet for a routine appointment where they told us that he not only needed to get his teeth cleaned, but one was actually infected and needed to be extracted immediately for a whopping $800! It's odd because he was just at the vet a year ago where they said his teeth looked fine.  I was under the impression that tooth decay is a rather slow process and it couldn't happen that fast, but apparently not.  He's actually there now and I hope that everything is going well.

* Tomorrow we have Eli's follow-up appointment with the orthopedic specialist.  I am SO nervous about it, mainly because I think I know what he is going to say.  We definitely have noticed a change in Eli's feet from the last appointment and we feel as though it's improving but I don't think it has improved as much as he wanted it to.  When I stand him up, he definitely puts weight on his feet but he also turns them in sometimes and ends up standing on the outside of his foot.  I can't imagine that is what they want.  I hope he doesn't recommend casts but I suppose if it is necessary for Eli to grow and walk, then of course that is what we will do.

* We also leave this week for a trip to visit Josh's parents and his twin brother, our sister-in-law, and our new baby nephew.  Josh's brother is in the Navy and has been stationed in Guam for the past 3 years.  We haven't seen him in 2 years since their wedding and we also haven't met our new baby nephew who was born 12 days before Eli.  He is being relocated to Virginia and is able to stop home for a visit before they have to report.  We are SO excited to be able to see them.  A lot of Josh's family are also coming for a visit also and his parents will sure have a full house.  We expect to have 3 babies two and under, 4 dogs, a set of grandparents, his parents, and the four of us plus other random guests.  It will be crazy and the 4 or so hour car ride to get there with two babies and two dogs will be great fun, but we are just so excited to spend time with them.

So just a few things going on at the moment, right?