I'm alive!

Things are going well in our little corner of the world...Gage is 11 and starting to exhibit peculiar pre teenish behavior that is crazymaking, Maddie is 8 and is our little jock, currently playing basketball and loving it, Mace is 4 and nutty as ever; still won't wear clothes for long but is the most sensitive kid you could imagine, Lily is almost ONE! I cannot believe it! Next month, she will be one. Wow. She's still doing so well, she's in occupational and physical therapy and soon will be starting speech therapy. She isn't crawling yet, but manages to "scooch" around if she needs to, can do a 360 on the floor to get to something she wants and is sitting without support. She's also an uber drama queen and knows just how to play mom and dad.

Scott and I are doing really well..I think anyway. I guess it's all a matter of perspective, he might think we're doing awful lol But we're getting along and getting things done. No, we still haven't moved but it's looking to be in the next couple months. We still have floors to finish and some plumbing loose ends to finish, but it's looking good and it WILL be this Spring sometime lol

I am o-kay. I was thinking the other day, realizing Lily's birthday is coming up, that this has been the hardest year of my life. But you know, that's saying something. If this wonderful person coming into our lives has been the hardest thing for me, I've led a pretty charmed life, you know? It really is not that bad, not as bad as I thought it would be 10 or so months ago. It's one of those things...you wouldn't wish for it to happen of course but you find out if it does it's not what you had imagined it would be. Plus I've come to the conclusion that you do what you have to do, you muddle through, you get by. There was a time in my life when I said I could never manage a special needs kid. But I can, and I do, and it's not at all an awful thing.

I am however, dealing with baby lust. Again and for different reasons this time I think. But that's for another post, and it's for the great spirit to work on changing Scott's mind :)