Thursday, November 13, 2008

Lacking complete motivation






Hey there!

Hope life is treating you well.

We are doing great. Had the chance to meet up with some dear friends from our first adoption group to China last week end. We had dinner out and just enjoyed chatting and seeing Laura and her beautiful family.

Not much else going on really..... just lacking motivation in many areas. The house looks like a tornado blew through, I have washed the same load of laundry 3 times in 2 days, and you could feed a small village with all of the snacks and drinks strewn about in my car.

I never realized just how OCD I am until Logan came home. I did great with just two kids, held my own when Mia came home..but now...I am totally out numbered. I thought for sure that God had given me a child after my own neat-freakness in Logan. Remember my posts from China about how neat he was? WAS is the key word there.

Oh well, I know there is more to life then having a picked up house. But there is just something about those fresh vaccuum tracks going across the carpet that makes me all warm inside.

Maybe my attitude is this way because I am sooooooooooo ready for it to be Thanksgiving. It is my favorite holiday, and we are headed out for our 7th annual camping trip with our precious group of friends. Out into a national forrest for a whole week!

No clock, no tv, no cell reception. Just room to run and play, 6 nights of campfires and s'mores, and the most amazing down time I have ever known.

CAN'T WAIT!!!

love,
claire

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Busch Gardens!
















Just wanted to post some pictures of our week end trip to Busch Gardens, and some of the halloween festivities in our hood.

We went to BG with 3 other families, and everyone had a great time. Logan was a riot, and Mia even was able to let go of some of her fears and really enjoy the rides and the huge sand pit/play area.

All is well here. We are loving the cooler weather, and can't wait for our annual Thanksgiving camping trip. We will be playing hooky from school for a few days, we lost some vacation days due to a few hurricanes. the kids are really upset with this decision, but I think they'll be o.k. (:

Hope all is well.

Love,
Claire