Gilli Update:  Gillian is a new person and it's not even been all that long for her new diet.  She's gluten free now and she's got 1000x more energy and pep.  Nice to have my little girl back again.  Her cheeks are filling out, and she's running around like a looney.  She started the fitness challenge at the gym this month and after a few days is feeling pretty darned good.

Cheerleading Update:  There is someone out there listening to me:)  No only did they decide to have Aidan's team not travel next year, they also decided to have their practices on the same weekend day, so our weekends during the season are not going to be completely shot anymore.  Hopefully, my parents won't disown me now:)

Aidan Update: He's moving to another school next year, Eisenhower Intermediate, so they're getting them ready to move up.  They had all the kids try several different instruments and they decided that Aidan will play the Baritone, based on how he did with the other things.  Hate to tell him that he's going to have to lug that thing to and from school!!  At least he doesn't have to walk to school, uphill both ways, in the snow to get there, the bus comes to the corner at 8:45!!!  Talk about a sleep in!

Fae Update:  She's been a tagging fool!  She's set up a lot of locations for the kids at the gym to tag at, which puts money into our account.  Woo!  She's also become the goto person at the gym for anything having to do with tagging, which is cool.  Still losing weight too:)

Me Update:  Well, if you've been following along lately, you've seen that I was in a serious accident last Thursday.  My shoulders are still hurting, my neck is still and driving is not a fun chore, especially since I rolled my car three times.  Driving 1.5 hours each way is not fun at all.  I'm getting through it, but I'm going to see the doc about my back, and another one about how to deal with some of the stress of the trauma.

Yesterday was better, hopefully tomorrow will be good too:)

It's April, Aidan will be turning TEN in six days. DID YOU HEAR ME? TEN!!!

Am I old enough to have a Ten yr old? No, I agree, not mature enough by far, that's for sure, but he is Ten, and I was there when he was born. Thankfully he does look and act a lot like me

Aidan's turning Ten in a few days, Fae is celebrating another anniversary of her 30th birthday (the last one!!!), Gillian is finally growing and Cheerleading season is almost over.

I've spent way too much time under the sink in the kitchen, for what started as a small leak in the faucet. I do know a lot about plumbing now, but once I get the instahot installed, I'm never going near another wrench again. Nope, not gonna do it. At least until the next project comes up.

So the kids only have one more competition and then the season is over. My weekends will be mine again...well, mine when Fae doesn't book us for 47 MEEEElion things to do. I'm going to do some house stuff pretty soon I think. The whole plumbing thing helped me realize that I'm fairly smart and can make some right decisions.

Aidan is getting into programming now. He's been talking about a video game forever, and I just downloaded something from Microsoft called XNA - it's a game programming engine. We've been doing a little each night, and it's fairly well done.

Gillian is changing everytime I look at her. I think, at Seven, she's warring between wanting to crawl on my lap and cuddle, and be independent. I can't get over how much she changes all the time.

I love my job, I truly do. My boss is open minded, gracious, and just a pleasure to work for. It's just such a pleasure to be able to make suggestions and get feedback in a respectful way, even when I'm totally being shot down.

Fae's working with a friend of hers, doing her books, helping her with planning and shopping and doing other things for her. The woman she's working with is a high paid, overworked consultant, so Fae's been making it easier on her to get things done, and bringing in some extra cash which is really nice.

The car just came back from the shop, the Van that is. 700$ for a new axle, oh goody!

Anyway, just thought I would try to get into the habit of writing, so there you go.