I've been neglectful of my blog. I've had lots of ideas, but not as much time recently to get to putting them down.
We've had a birthday. Logan just turned 10. It's hard to believe that I have a 10 year old now. It certainly doesn't feel like he's been in my life for 10 years, it's flown by so fast. Add to it that to a certain degree I'm still in "little kid mode", and there've been some big epiphanies when it comes to Logan and how quickly he's grown up.
We've had a few set backs. Nothing we can't handle, nothing traumatic and devastating, but definitely set backs. We're flowing along fine now, but for a while, things were a bit stressful. I think that both of us have learned to let go of some worries when it comes to things we can't control and made it easier to see the solutions in the future.
We just had a wonderful weekend in the mountains. We got to stay at Jeff's parent's condo there, enjoyed a few days of hiking and I got to indulge in my photography again. It was wonderful. With staying at the condo, the costs of travelling go way down because all we needed to do pay for was a bit of food for ourselves we could cook there and gas to get there. I did learn not to listen to Jeff when it comes to hiking. A "simple family hike" all but turned out to be almost mountain climbing. In his defense, the flooding in the Canmore area where we were, altered a lot of the landscape there and that simple family hike became far more difficult.
I am now taking care of extra kids again. Always an adventure, but has been a really positive change. Grady has a friend to play with, Olivia's friend is Grady's friend's big sister, and Logan can go out after school and play with his friends. So it's a win win when it comes to entertaining the kids. Grady is exhausted at the end of the day, so getting him to bed has been a breeze. I'm in a better routine, getting more done around the house and getting the kids to the park. I've gained some weight back though, because I can't go to the gym as much. I was going to start riding again, but some cats peed in my bike trailer and then mice got into it. I sprayed the hell out of it with vinegar and rinsed it out with the hose yesterday, and though it smells like vinegar right now, I'm going to spray it down with Febreeze and hope for the best. I'd like to be back on the bike tomorrow. It's going to be a lot of work...I'm going to hurt for a while. But if I can get the weight down a bit, then I'll be happier.
I'm back to gardening. It's a wonderful way for me to relax and wind down. I get to play in the dirt, planting beautiful flowers. I have a small garden full of tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and cucumbers. It's a veritable salad in there! I have two herb gardens and I've pledged to be more consistent in using my herbs. I can't wait for them to grow and get lots of lovely fresh herbs for cooking!!
Jeff's still working like a madman up north, but his rotation changed, so we had to adjust our lives to that again. That's becoming a yearly event in the spring, his rotation changing. However, we needed the financial boost, so this isn't a bad thing. Actually, it's rather nice, because his rotations out are shorter, but it hurts the family time a bit. As always, we make it work, and it works fine for us.
Life rolls on. Everyday is something new, something else we have work with. Grady presents some challenges, but we're adjusting to him as well. He will be four next week. Mind boggling. Mr. Attitude though...we're definitely working on that one.
Olivia just sails along as always. Happy, floppy and crazy, she just skips through, playing and being a girl. I'm finding that she needs a bit more attention in regards to the fact she's a girl in between two boys. I have to carve out time for just her and I. It's a lot of fun and I look forward to watching her grow. She has such confidence and love of life. She falls a lot and looks like a walking bruise, but she gets over it and is off and running again.
Everyone grows daily, learns daily and then teaches me something I didn't know, sometimes about myself and how I have changed and grown myself.
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