{{{meara}}} That sucks. Drama and tension are not fun. Feh to them.

Stephanie, lots of offer~ma. The post-offer nausea is a sucky part of home buying but it seems like a great plan for everyone involved.

We had an awesome time at the kids' halloween party at our gym. One of the moms asked if I came directly from work (I was wearing scrubs). HA!

Hugs to you meara.

I got skull pajamas and socks at Old Navy today. Also found the bottles I was looking for at Michael's for like $.99. Win!

Oh, poor meara! I'm sorry for the drama and tension.

Boo on hurty-drama, meara.

Lots of house-ma to all who need it, and appropriate -ma to everyone whose posts I read but have slipped my mind as I type this.

Hairpats, meara. What a rough spot to be in.

{{{JZ}}}}

Meara, I hate that sort of drama. But we love you!

JZ, Ellie had a Mom phase but then went back to mommy/mama. I think she says mama most often. Frisco is mostly recovered from the flu. I actually really enjoyed my week home with him. He's so cute and smiley and learning lots of new words. Just this week, I deciphered pizza, chocolate and choo-choo. Ellie is doing well. She likes her new school/teacher/friends but I k ow she misses the old group. She's been sort of extra whiny/dramatic about stuff and it's a bit hard to take sometimes. She's very sweet 75% of the time but sort of mouthy/demanding the other 25%. We are working on it.

Joe and I are okay. Good, I guess. We feel the chronic, parents of young kids, never get to spend enough time together thing. But his current job lets him eat breakfast with us most days and that is nice. Im stressed about him deploying next Sept but it's still a long ways away. Im sort of struggling professionally. I decided to try to start my own practice. It's want I want but also, there aren't many options here in CS. I have one case that Im doing pro bono and it's interesting but having the kids in daycare and me not bringing in money is expensive. I can't work if they aren't in daycare but I can't just drop them somewhere if something comes up.

Wow, that was a huge post and it makes me realize that yes, we been through a lot of change.

{{meara}} you are loveable and wonderful and gorgeous and they shouldn't be adding drama to your life. Boo.

Offer~ma to Stephanie! I vividly recall that nausea. i had it big time on my first offer. Then that fell through and i wrote a throwaway offer on a short-sale just to make it "routine" for myself. Now i think that my soon-to-be-little house might have orchestrated the multiple outbids so that i would still be looking when it came on the market. At least it feels that way!

And JZ, pretty darned close! I'll be a little farther out, more like a 40 minute bike ride to downtown. But still "inner" southeast :) I can't wait to get started.

Back from Haflaween. Good ghoulish fun. Just for the heck of it I dressed as a cheerleader for Satan. Pic is up on fb. Now I'm back at KBD's and he keeps calling me Abby (as in NCIS).

Now time to de-goth and de-makeup and get to bed.

Barb, I finally got to look at the cake. I LOVE IT. Abby has fab taste.

meara, I'm sorry that stupid drama is ruining your conference experience. I hope it improves and you can have a good time.