Shelby's Crocus  Spring is finally here, officially! Yay! SOOOO glad I can say "winter is over", at least as far as the calendar goes :) Life is becoming busier as Shelby's home shows and our school events come into season. I subbed for Greenmont on Friday, which was good for me and so nice for my teaching ego. Hopefully it was as good for the teacher - I'll have to follow up and make sure I'm making the impression that I want at this school. Shelby and I took the kids to Greenmont's Family Fun Day yesterday, and they roamed the school well enough on their own while Shelby and I worked the bounce house. And we won a night at Magic Castle from the raffle that we invested in! Afterwards, we, and a couple of the kids' friends, enjoyed our first root beer stand meal of the season - Mmmm! The warmth of the season has hit often enough to allow the trees to bud and the crocuses to bloom. All of these things seem to brighten the place, and our spirits, a b...

So, I realized that it has been nearly two months since my last written post, which is not what I wanted from this blog. I get busy, or frustrated, or blah, and the blog settles to the bottom of my list. So here I am to bring things back up to speed and to catch up. First of all, we're still here. So there's that. We remain a family of seven, dreaming and creating our life together, and supporting each other through the frustrating times. We are all lucky in that respect. Shelby has finally received her promotion and is getting paid the appropriate salary for that jump! She is so awesome and has deserved the title and paycheck for so long - we're all so proud of her, especially me! It looks like Annie will be her Field Coordinator once she gets through the admin process, which will be a great help. So we pretty much have the green light for the Dayton area (unless fate changes that), and also Indiana, which Shelby will also allegedly have both hands in. We're looking a...