EOSY Update!

Apologizing in advance for the lack of paragraphs...apparently blogger doesn't like them today :( How has it been since April that I blogged? Time flies when you are having fun....or raising kids....oh, wait, is that supposed to be fun? ;) School is out, and I am so glad. We finally have a pool to go to, and some more friends WITH pools who invite us over from time to time, and the weather is quite mild for almost half-way through June. Now, if we can just be healthy, it could turn out to be the best summer ever. Georgia has had the longest, worst cold of her little life. Nothing serious, just long and symptom-filled. Then right at the end of that, I got a stomach bug, which passed onto Jaylan and then Kaleb. So it's been a good ten days since I've had a decent night's sleep. I find myself napping a lot lately, and threatening the boys with naps should they prove loud enough to bother me during said naps. So between illnesses and naps, we are having a good time swimming and working out at the gym we joined for the summer. I did my first triathlon. It was hard. Harder than I expected, hopefully because I pushed myself harder than I thought I would. I'm anxious to do another, but it's really inconvenient. They start early, early, and I have to haul a bike there (which doesn't fit in an SUV) and hope Jeremy doesn't have to work. It's almost just not worth the trouble right now. I'm hoping to get in another one or two before the end of the year, though, even if they are the ones that are at the gym. Those count too!! Jeremy is working like a dog, late nights, weekends, the whole shebang. We are both anxious for this particular job to be over. It's been a rough one more than just for the longer days, but also for the job itself. He has learned a lot though, and I think we are both anticipating a promotion with our next move. Of course we aren't expecting, but hopefully anticipating. He's ready, but there still has to be need and opportunity within the company....it's a right place, right time kind of thing as much as it is anything. Regardless, we continue to be very grateful for his job. Kaleb and Jaylan both had really great school years. Kaleb's grades are fantastic, which is what is expected. He continues to excel academically, and is reluctantly reading some really challenging books this summer. I say reluctantly, because even though he is reading them, and liking them, I have to MAKE him do it every day. Jaylan has proven to be just as "good" at school as Kaleb. He excels much more in the charm department than Kaleb does, a talent he most certainly inherited from my better half. He is becoming such a sweet and loving kid. I tell him he's the sweetest thing I have. He also made a profession of Christ earlier this year, which we are over the moon happy about. We are still waiting on the Holy Spirit's timing with regard to baptism. Both boys also finished a spring season of football (THAT IS WHY I hadn't posted since April!!). It was short, and hard, but fun. Jaylan played tackle and did a GREAT job despite being the smallest one on the field every week. Kaleb never came off the field for his team, playing both defense and offense on a team of kids his age and a year older. Jaylan, too, played both ways and on all the special teams. We were super proud of them both!! Jaylan will return to flags in the fall and Kaleb will remain on the "rookie" squad. We are looking forward to them having great seasons, both personally, and their teams as well. And Georgia, well, she's a toddler, so she's making changes so often who can keep up? She's so spoiled by everyone. Being the littlest is such an easy gig. That said, the sibling rivalry has begun. She is very jealous and isn't coping very well with her brothers being home all the time now. She has to share her mommy most of the day, and she isn't happy about that at.all. But she's a pretty easy-going kid, and having a daughter still makes my heart swoon. I didn't even know my heart was really missing a place made just for a daughter, but we can just share stuff (like matching shoes and painted toes) that I can never share with my boys. Plus, by the time the boys were two, they'd already begun their preference for their Daddy. Which is how it should be. And, while Georgia likes her Daddy alright, she will, I presume, forever give her female parent the slight preference. And if I'm wrong for being the slightest bit happy about that, well, then I don't want to be right ;)