Blocker Boys On the Go!

My husband has duty so he is gone for about 36-40 hours.  He will then come home exhausted because he rarely sleeps on duty.  Korvin is potty training, and Kenaniah is cutting a tooth.  Really could use some adult conversation right about now. 

I wonder some days where I got the idea that homeschooling might be for us.  I feel confident that I will make a good teacher.  The thing that bothers me is will I be able to maintain the house, direct school, and still make time for myself?

I just started putting time for myself back on the list of things I need to do.  Kenaniah is just now 10 months old, and playing by him self a bit more.  Korvin is turning out to be an awesome big brother. In fact so much so that it is making bed time a circus at our house.  The boys share a room so if Kenaniah starts crying at bed time Korvin gets up and gives him a toy.  If that does not work he reads him books.  All the while I just want them to both lay down and SLEEP!! Korvin likes to have the light on as he has recently started waking with bad dreams in the middle of the night.  Kenaniah seems to prefer the room to be pitch black, cold, and quiet so he can go to sleep.  Just another never ending battle right there.

Now the good news for the blog.  It turns out I have bouts of insomnia when the hubby is on duty.  So I will have plenty of time to write stuff, and keep it up to date.  The bad news is that the next day I might not be so up in the SUPER MOM rankings.  One day at a time! We have been dealing with duty days for months, and I still get very little sleep on duty nights.  That leaves me to wonder how I will survive an entire deployment with kids. That however is an entirely different blog post.

I hope everyone out there in the blog world is doing well.

     Well we moved.  When we arrived the people who had rented our house trashed it. So that turned into a clean up / kitchen remodel.  Then I took the boys on a three week trip around Texas to see family.  Now we are back home and getting in to a new routine.

     I am planning on attempting to start home pre schooling my 2 year old that should be a great learning curve for both of us.  We are currently in the middle of potty training so one step at a time.  I am compiling collection of resources to teach from and getting supplies.

Now that we are all caught up hopefully I will get back to the blogging.

It has just hit me like a ton of bricks that we will be moving in less than 6 weeks.  We verified what day our current renters are moving out of our house.  Then my husband  gets me the information we need to schedule the move online.  I am extremely grateful that the military is paying for us to move this time around.  I am also excited to not have to do all the packing of our stuff.

The boys and i will be moving few weeks before B does.  He will be staying behind to finish working, and to fix up our rental.  One of our dear friends rented his house to us so we are going all out on the clean up.  We even plan to paint a few rooms and the front door.  We have had to put so much money into our house in Virginia that is will look like an entirely different place when we move.

On the excellent news side there is an awesome park near our house in Virginia.  They had just finished the park renovation before we moved out last time.  The park has one of those awesome water play areas for the summer too.  I was envious with no kids to play in it last time.  Really I just want to play in the water area myself.  I am sure K1 will love the park in the upcoming summer.  They were putting in a nice walking track so that will be awesome.

On another plus side we are doing much better on our healthy eating.  We have only gone out to eat once in the last month at a sit down place, and 2or 3 times to a drive thru.  B taking his lunch to work is saving quite a bit of money.  It also is helping to keep the refrigerator clean since he is taking leftovers most days.  I do need to go pack his lunch really quick while both of the boys are asleep.

     Well today's good news, is that we still have renters for another month at the house in Virginia!!!!  That means not so much worry on the budget part.  I do hope they find new renters that want in before these guys decide to leave.  I think we are going to tell the property manager to up the rent which will work out even better.  So that was a big load off my plate in the money department. 
     The weather iscooling off so all the dogs found some long lost energy.  They have been running around playing like puppies for two days.  The cats on the other hand are looking for cuddly places to spend the days. 
     Getting the house ready for the sister in law to visit.  She is allergic to cats, so I will be scrubbing the cats and doing some extra vacuuming, and dusting.  I should probablly tell her thanks for coming so I get all this house work done.  Big plans for the weekend while she is here.  Photo shoot for the babies!!! Her little girl is four months younger than K.  Then getting ready for some scrapbooking and crafting.  It will be fun to have a little more girl energy in the house.
     K was pretty good today over all.  I mean for the day after shots he was awesome I suppose.  We made it out to get groceries, and other household stuffs.  Then he was well behaved while the AC/heater guys were here.  He also found it in his schedule to let me have time to call the DMV, and wait on hold for 16 minutes.
     Over all a very productive day in our little world. 

     Well today's good news, is that we still have renters for another month at the house in Virginia!!!!  That means not so much worry on the budget part.  I do hope they find new renters that want in before these guys decide to leave.  I think we are going to tell the property manager to up the rent which will work out even better.  So that was a big load off my plate in the money department. 
     The weather iscooling off so all the dogs found some long lost energy.  They have been running around playing like puppies for two days.  The cats on the other hand are looking for cuddly places to spend the days. 
     Getting the house ready for the sister in law to visit.  She is allergic to cats, so I will be scrubbing the cats and doing some extra vacuuming, and dusting.  I should probablly tell her thanks for coming so I get all this house work done.  Big plans for the weekend while she is here.  Photo shoot for the babies!!! Her little girl is four months younger than K.  Then getting ready for some scrapbooking and crafting.  It will be fun to have a little more girl energy in the house.
     K was pretty good today over all.  I mean for the day after shots he was awesome I suppose.  We made it out to get groceries, and other household stuffs.  Then he was well behaved while the AC/heater guys were here.  He also found it in his schedule to let me have time to call the DMV, and wait on hold for 16 minutes.
     Over all a very productive day in our little world.