January 8, 2010

still so hard to believe it is january of 2010!   here's the latest...  jim and jackie rolled in on dec. 27th.  we spent the week enjoying the kids, doing some house hunting and just settling in and catching up on rest.  on sunday, jim had a horrible cough and rattly breathing, so we took him up to the hospital er and he was promptly admitted with a case of pneumonia!  5 days later, he's still up there, but we are hoping that today is the day that he gets released to come home!  

the kids all went back to school on monday.  the transition back has been quite smooth. clara has had a great week and has been her sparkly, smiling self and has stayed healthy...at least this week!  she IS however, antibiotic free and has been feeling great now for going on 2 full weeks and THAT is something to celebrate!  she went back to gymnastics wednesday night and had a blast.  she was SO happy to be back there and flipping and turning and cartwheeling!  the boys have had a really productive week of studying and I have seen both of them making good efforts to really sit down and crack the books.  it helps that during the week now the Roberts family is "status unplugged"...meaning no t.v., no video games, and no computer unless it is for a school related project.  it's also been FREEZING outside so they've not been in a hurry to run outside and find their friends either.  all in all it's created a wonderful environment for studying!  even clara is reading for an hour and a half at a time!  

i found a workout buddy here.  she's fun and i enjoy her company and it's awesome to have some accountability again.  we meet every monday, wednesday and friday afternoon at the gym and have a great, solid hour's workout, then scoot out to get on with the rest of the day and picking up of children, etc.  it really makes the workout go by so much faster when you have a friend to chat with and i find myself really, really looking forward to workout days now!  which i SO need right about now.  hopefully, the accountability and keeping track of my weight watchers points will help to get some of this "insulation" under control!

i feel like i may freeze to death.  it's 16 degrees right now.  wicked cold.  miserable!!!!  the air is so cold it's painful when it hits your skin.  i can't seem to get warm.  my hands are so cold...even inside in the heat that they hurt and i feel like my fingers are losing sensation.  it is hard to type this it's so cold.  

that's about it for now.  i'm too cold to type any more!!!!!!  i have to go move around before i freeze solid!