Just Keeping Swimming

In Finding Nemo, the theme at the end is "Just Keeping Swimming," I'm feeling a little like Nemo these days. Except he's a fish. He has fins. He can breathe underwater. He won't actually drown. Man, I wish I was a fish. This blog has been ignored as I attempt to keep my head above water. I thought it would be fun to see what random photos are on my phone and use those to give you a little update.

I will hate to leave our current neighborhood. Last week Evy played with Sam in the front yard for about 30 minutes. Sam is awesome with Evy. After Sam got cold and went back home Evy played with some other buddies for 45 more minutes. I was inside the entire time. It was awesome. I'm going to miss these neighbors! 

I've been dropping the ball a lot lately. In addition to forgetting about pajama day at school I also totally forgot about Evy's dance pictures, missing the entire thing this year. I also forgot to deliver some items to one of my major clients at work. I don't normally drop the ball. Right now I have a huge sign on the door to our garage that says "FRIDAY. EVY BANANAS. CHARLIE JUICE." Hopefully this will keep me from forgetting our contribution to St. Patrick's Day parties at school. I snapped this picture the other day because I think the amount of junk that I (and most other parents) lug in and out of the house is kind of unbelievable. This is what I unloaded from my car at the end of a 10 hour work/school day. And this pictures doesn't even include the two kids who also got unloaded!

And this. These wood floors are the reason that my face is full of acne and why I have eaten a half of pan of brownies in the last two days. These are the wood floors at the new house. They are in really bad shape and we negotiated a repair cost with the sellers two months ago as part of our purchase agreement. We just learned that the original repair cannot be done. Great. The work was supposed to start in two weeks. We close April 1. We've met with two more contractors who have given us bids and it seems as though it's all going to come together now without going back to the drawing board on negotiations. But things were not looking good on Monday.