It's been a while, hasn't it?  Not so much that I'm entirely against you, dear Xanga.  More like I forgot about you altogether.

Instead of catching up, I'm just going to tell it like it is. 

This morning the girls woke up at like 6:45.  I was grateful to see that the sun was already peaking itself through our blinds.  After I nursed them, I stuck them in a crib to play with each other a bit.  They sleep/play with Reid's teddy bears.  Okay, Reid doesn't have terry bears that he sleeps with, but he has teddy bears from when he was just a baby too!  SO CUTE.  Anyway, they didn't last very long in the crib (wishful thinking on my part!), so after about twenty minutes of mommy-pretending-she-has-quiet-time, I took them downstairs where I fed them delicious foods and changed their diapers. 

We're still using cloth diapers, which I'm incredibly glad we decided to go with.  Not only are they cost-efficient, but they are pretty easy to handle as well.  Granted, sometimes I'd like to not have pee-pee hands, I'm so used to it that I think the girls could poop and pee on me and I wouldn't even change.  (EXAGGERATION OBV.)

So Aidan broke his ankle this week.  I'm pretty proud of him for being such an awesome trooper about it.  I'm telling you, this kid is made of steel!  Except not since he broke his ankle.

Me?  I've been trying to get down the rhythm of keeping the house clean, laundry done, and maintaining a modicum of sanity.  Ha!  Actually, my running hasn't been as frequent unfortunately, but I'm starting to get a nice routine.  It's been really hard getting structured since moving here.  I don't know what my deal was--the fact that I didn't have a true routine for three months because of transitioning, or that I was just a lazy bum?  I am thinking it's the former.  Either way, I am feeling SO MUCH BETTER and more normal.

Micole helps me a lot (thank goodness).  I am seriously grateful for her help.  Just the fact that someone ELSE is changing diapers is handy.  Some days I just DON'T WANT TO.  (THEY HAVE ACID PEE, I SWEAR.) 

So Micole helps sweep and fold laundry too; she also helps with the kitchen.  She helps with tutoring Aidan, and holds and cradles and kisses bebez and feeds them too.

Sometimes I feel so lame that I hired someone to help me, but then I remember that I'm on an island very far away from family and have new friends and I just can't be too proud to admit that I can't do this all by myself.  I have Reid, but there's no point in wearing ourselves out when we could just get outside help.  He works outside of the home for goodness sake! 

Today I organized my medicine cabinet and plan on cleaning the baseboards of the bathrooms.  (Seriously, I doubt they've ever been washed down in their existence!!  Gross!  Downstairs bathroom has been wiped down and I realized that they really aren't orange, but white!--SICKY!)  I feel so powerful when everything is nice and clean.  As though I have control of my surroundings rather than my surroundings being in control of me.

Oh yeah, about that.  The washer/dryer are going to be picked up on Monday (the ones from the housing facility), so maybe we'll stop looking like white trash!  I'm really excited!  Also, I went nuts yesterday (in the good kind of way) and started weed-eating the backyard and got really excited about the yard possibly looking nice.

I'm crazy for a nice looking yard/house.  Hey!, we're stewards of what God has given us!  It's important to take care of what He's put in our possession!

Speaking of "He", we've been reading a chapter from Proverbs a day, and saying the Lord's Prayer on top of our daily devotions as a family.  I'm really loving it a lot.  First of all, Proverbs is an absolutely awesome book.  I wonder why I haven't read a chapter a day all of my life.  My brain would be impacted with so much wisdom.  I love the wisdom of the bible.  So I literally feel a change in my actions, perspective, and mood. 

Oh, and I'm going to start running every other day again.  I can't believe that I haven't made time for my favorite thing.  It's kind of a love/hate sort of thing though, honestly.

Also, for dinner I made chicken thighs and green beans (last night).  DELICIOUS.  We had a family night filled with Connect Four (Daddy is a Champion and Mommy is not :( ), and an APPLE PIE.  I'm never going to lose weight with my love for cooking.  Except that I really do make healthy, simple foods!  .... except for the apple pie part :(

This brain dump has felt really nice.  Thanks, Xanga.  <3