good news

This was a good week.

We got another offer on the house.  It's actually the same amount and same closing date as the previous offer.  What little we know about the family though makes me feel better about this situation though, it simply worked out so perfectly that it was meant to be.  Plus I feel that it will be a good family moving into this amazing neighborhood.  So we are making plans to move mid-December.  Those plans are very vague at the moment.

Husband got some encouraging news at work.  The depressed economy has trickled down to affect his company and made for a slow, sometimes discouraging year.  No promises yet but it looks like next year will be much better.

We are all recovering nicely from our apparent strep throat.  We must have caught it early because we didn't have any obvious symptoms and started on meds right away.  But sometimes being given a diagnosis is like being given permission to admit you don't feel great so it was nice to allow ourselves a few quiet days in the name of recovery.

We've taken to playing board games with the girls in the evenings again and it's been wonderful.  They are silly simple games, like Candyland, Kerplunk and Go Fish, but I love having this fun interaction with them instead of just watching movies or going for a drive.

The big girls draw pictures for me all day long.  Lovely is starting to follow suit and her new favorite toy is a pen and paper.  She's still mastering how to actually get the pen to write on the paper but my three budding artists are adorable when they are all hard at work, laying on their bellies to create a masterpiece for me.

I've been converting old home movies again lately.  I've found some gems, like my adorable sister at age three (everything is cute at age three), the pageant that I did in college, my grandparent's 50th anniversary party, footage of my great grandparents, and the crazy antics of my siblings and me.  I even found one from the year I was born. But the most amazing find was a video from 1950-1956.  I have no idea who took it or how it appeared in my parents' collection (without their knowledge) but seeing my dad as a baby is incredible!  And to see my grandparents so young and youthful is pretty incredible too.

Husband's elk hunt began.  As always, I was hoping for an opening day success story because I'd rather him stay home and play with us instead, but no luck yet.   Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I taught Relief Society today and I really do love it.  Preparing my lesson always takes me several nights spread across a few weeks but each time has been such a great experience so far.  I'm learning a lot and really feel like each class has been guided.  Hopefully I'll get to teach one more time before we move.

onto another busy week...