I'm still alive and kickin'. I know it's been a few days since I last posted and my last post was such a "downer"....don't mean to be downer to anyone. Think of it this way, if I'm posting in my blog, I'm forcing myself to do something "normal" and refusing to let myself sit around and be depressed!

We went down to Tombstone again on Saturday and stayed the night. My grandparents came over with my two oldest and stayed the night as well. They had a fun time swimming in the motel's pool on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Then on Sunday after lunch we headed to Tombstone. We got there in time to see the reenactment this time and my grandfather was so wonderful to watch our puppy for us so that we could go see it and the rest of the town. It was a funny sight, my grandfather sitting outside of the tavern with a baby bassett hound attached to the leg of his chair. They got so much attention from the people going in and coming out it was too funny! I think my grandpa enjoyed the attention as much as the puppy!!!

After the reenactment, we met up with my grandmother at the Courthouse again. It was more fun with the two olders as I was able to actually "teach" them a little more about the exhibits than the younger two had the attention for last time. After that, we walked downtown and visited some shops. We stopped by the Epitaph which was the old newspaper printer and we picked up a reprint of the newspaper printed the day after the "Shooting at the Ok Corral". I haven't had much time to really look it over or read it yet but it looks interesting. After that, we went on a wagon ride tour through Tombstone. The driver tells about the points of interest along the way, Wyatt Earp's house, etc....it was worth the $$$ as it gives you a visual layout of where things are/were. After that we had dinner with my grandparents and headed home. We got home around 10:45pm and only got the essentials unloaded from the van as we were all tired.

Today we made a Walmart run to get garbage bags along with some other things. Got home and started unpacking the kids' trip stuff. They came home with at least 2X what they left here with! Gotta' love Grammy's!....

I really miss her and wish they lived a little closer to us. They are only 6 hours away but it makes for a looonnnggg weekend so we don't do it much. Maybe hubby will get that Albuquerque office and we'll be even closer to El Paso!!

Ok, on to another topic. This is a secret now, so don't tell anyone....(VBG). My husband informed me this weekend that he will no longer "worry" about having another baby. I've had "baby fever" for at least 5 months now and have been hinting here and there but not pressuring him in any way. We finally had the "talk" this weekend and it started with him saying "You REALLY want 5 kids!?!". I told him I'd at least like one more, but that I didn't want to pressure him into it as it's a big responsibility. Well he thought about it for awhile and decided that it wouldn't be too "horrible" if we had one more. Yay!!! Becky, iffin' things happen this month, it might be that May baby that you've been bugging me to have! LOL

Things are kindof "rough" still with mom. I've made huge strides as far as that's concerned though. I've somehow managed to "remove" myself from her situation so that I can be "here" with my family again and get things on track. I was too involved in her "stuff" that I didn't have anything left for my own family. I haven't turned my back on her or anything, don't want to give the wrong impression, but I've just emotionally removed myself from her problems. I've done what I can do and the rest is up to her. I can't go "down" with her, but I'll be here for her when she wants to come back up....

We're getting the olders settled into life here again and we're working on "spring cleaning" the house so that we can start school again on Monday. Good thing we school year 'round because we take so many "life breaks" that it takes us a whole year to get things done. I've also gone to two homeschool meetings this month and have found some new focus for history and science this year. For science we're going to major in the human body and minor in the SL's science projects. For History we're going to major in Arizona history (because we're here right now) and then minor in the ancient history from SL. Hope I don't confuse the poor kids! If it gets to be too much I'll drop the SL stuff and go with the topical stuff as it's relevant to us right now and they'll retain more of it than reading from books or textbooks about it later.

Ok, that's all the exciting things going on around here.

Jen