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Things are settling down around here thank heavens I'll take that and a bag a chips!  Our three year old is quite enjoying her time at preschool albeit a year early but she is doing really well so we can't complain.  I of course am enjoying the free time to nap ( since I'm up at the crack of dawn for early morning seminary) or other things that would be harder to do with a toddler around like cleaning my oven ( it needs it I slow roasted a brisket last week even with a drip pan).  Nice to be able to do the cleaning that's hard around small kids I might if I'm lucky even get around to prepping some more walls for painting.  The upstairs is my pet peeve at the moment.

I have less and less jumps and nightmares concerning our 15 year old and her seizures.  Her doctor seems quite confident and thorough in everything he does with her so that calms me down.  Someone who's been doing this over thirty years helps.  I hate the stress it's caused me, the lack of sleep, the run down feeling but as time goes by I heal a little bit more emotionally and physically who could ask for more?  It's great to have our biggest complaint be that we all got this flu/cold that's going around.  But now we're done with that too.

We had the opportunity to purchase a newly used washer and dryer set from friends of ours and now everyone wants to do their laundry.  Woohoo!  Teenagers cleaning their own clothes I'm set!  Not a have to because their baskets are full and they're out of underwear, want to.  It's a miracle!  We also bought a tool chest which hubby is thrilled with.  I never seen a man so happy cleaning and organizing a garage I tell ya.  Gold to me absolute gold.  He let our three year old daughter help him too nice bonus, sweet.  On top of that didn't want me 'interring' so it he knew where everything was.  It was like a vacation from scheduled reality around here.

The heat although it's trying to hold on for dear life here in St Louis is finally on it's way out the door.  Fall is coming.  The crisp weather not quite but we are getting there and I'm totally excited being that it's my favorite season!  Halloween, Thanksgiving and my son's 14th birthday are getting closer.  Isn't life amazing?  What a wonder to see our children grow so fast.  Even though they can't remember infancy we as their mothers sure do and then we start to think, I wonder if that's how my mother felt.  If she stood at the door or the kitchen window smiling at how brilliant and grown up and mature her kids were getting.  Hopefully not the flip of the coin, 'Will my kids every grow up?!'  Definitely not.

Being that Missouri in this area is so wooded you can only imagine the magnificent colors that we get to enjoy in the fall.  It's so beautiful that time of year and it's almost here!  It's hard to play with little ones outside in this heat, they dehydrate so quickly so I know it isn't just me that's looking forward to spending more time outside.  Even though I hate the raking and the pruning and the acorns crunching under my feet it's still an excuse to be outside enjoying the sunshine and sweet smells.  Hopefully we'll get some painting done as well.  Can't wait!