It's been many months since I've been here to blog...and MANY things have changed and many things are coming full circle.

Back in March, we decided that it was time for Tommy to find a trade or something since his boat building career was something that was pretty much taken from him in his 2004 car accident.  So, we packed up our life and house and moved to Orlando.  Tommy began school for auto mechanics in April after we "settled in".  Due to Tommy's schedule it was in our best interest that I continue to work at the hospital in our hometown.  Shortly after spending every weekend at my mom's, where I worked at night and slept during the day.  I also realized that about Wednesday of every week I was pretty depressed and it was affecting everyone in the family.  Our second floor apartment faces the southwest (where the sun is not until the afternoon) and we are literally in the trees so there is a very limited amount of natural light that comes in at all during the day.  I am serious it looks like evening in my living room/kitchen ALL DAY.  I decided that staying at my mom's might give us some consistency.  Tommy headed back to our apartment every week and we stayed with my mom.  Since I was sleeping during the weekend while he was at my moms with us, this started to be very hard on our marriage...because essentially we never saw one another.  After being at my mom's for 3+ weeks, I was lonely and overwhlemed and Tommy was lonely also and something had to change.  We decided to  terminate our lease.  All of us are going to move to my mom's in August, and Tommy will commute with a friend (who also happens to be a family member) that he met at school.  This will require discipline from all of us...considering that Tommy will need his sleep (because he will have to get up at 3am during the week) and the kids will need to learn to be quiet for him to sleep and study.  But I feel that having him home with us every night for dinner will be HUGE!

So, now we are slowly packing trying to get things in order.  I will again be arranging the move (with the movers and the truck and getting a bigger storage unit)....I will also need to help my mom organize her house.  She has lots of stuff that has been given to her by people that she loves...or that she feels is worth "something" so I need to help her pare down for her sake and for the sanity this will provide once there are two families in one house.

I am looking forward to this.  I am also still on the countdown to getting my house back....only 291 days!!