Plans

I think I might try to start using this as a daily journal kind of thing, since I clearly don’t have the time/energy/inclination to spend time crafting meaningful posts.  I do find that blogs that chronicle daily ins and outs are interesting in their own ways, and give a nice picture of life as it’s really lived.  We’ll see.

In the meantime, just to bring everyone up to speed (“everyone” being, of course, the three people who are still reading here): M2 has recovered nicely from her (apparent) allergic reaction to amoxicillin, one ER trip later.  She had a miserable few days there, but once we discontinued the medicine she started slowly showing improvement.  Now she’s bouncing off the walls and getting ready for her preschool Christmas program (all two songs of it).

The house thing is ongoing.  We put an offer on a foreclosure, which was accepted.  However, there was one furnace issue (we knew about it) and one crawlspace issue (we didn’t) that we decided need to be remediated by the bank, not us (there’s loads of other issues with the house, but we’re prepared to take those on, since they’re largely cosmetic).  So we’re sending an addendum back today, and we’ll see what happens with that.  It would be a good house for us, I think – it’s basically the house we’re currently renting (same model, same layout), but with a substantial new addition in the back that makes it possible for every kid to have a bedroom.  But…we’ll see.

In the meantime, I’m trying to scrape together Christmas presents and hoping that Amazon is serious when they say that the stuff I ordered yesterday will be here by the 24th.  Dissertation is currently dead in the water, but I’m still paying tuition and registering for diss credit, so I guess I’m still in the game.  Trip to in-laws on the 26th – wish us luck!