
Facebook makes it harder to stay motivated to update the blog. It is so much easier to write one or two sentences than to find the time to write out an entire blog. Plus, I feel like I am repeating myself here. Yet I think the blog is more important....something I want to keep up so the girls can look back and read. Really so all of us can look back and remember....Seth was just reading old posts the other day, and it seems that every time we can't remember when something took place, we read through the blog. So I need to be better.
So here's some random catching up.
Avery has mastered riding her bike in the past month. Sadie is still working on it. We're not quite sure what is wrong with us that we can't seem to get her to ride a bike without training wheels. I mean seriously. The training wheels have been off for a year now.
Seth is keeping busy busy at work, so that is a good thing. He had Fridays off (mostly) for about three months, but that stopped around Easter and he has been busy as can be ever since. He rewarded himself by buying an AR-15 yesterday. I've been telling him that only crazy people own that type of gun, but he was being quite persistent. (I also got my first gun of my very own a couple weeks ago...a Ruger 10-22.)
I recently finished another round of P90X. After I finished the first time through, I begged Seth to do it with me. He agreed to do it with me sometimes but told me I couldn't tell anybody (he doesn't "believe in doing exercise just for the sake of exercising". He has to actually be climbing a mountain or something). So he would work out with me a few times a week when we could both do it at the same time. I was doing a great job keeping it to myself, and then one Sunday at church, Pastor Terry was talking to the girls about it and he mentioned in his sermon that Avery said that Dad works out with mom but mom has to make him do it....something to that effect. I laughed all the way home that Seth's secret was blown. No worries, PT, Seth wasn't upset. :) Anyhow, I haven't been nearly as disciplined this second time through....the logistics of trying to wait until evening so Seth could do it with me made it a challenge. But I love doing it together.
Last week, Seth stayed home with the girls for a few days while I went to the IPPA convention. They did a lot of fun things...frisbee golf, shooting rockets, video games, ice cream. I appreciate Seth taking the time off...the girls love it and it makes it so much easier for me to get the most out of the convention if I'm not juggling getting the kids to babysitters, etc.
My beef of the week....it is now May and it still feels like winter outside. I feel cheated. I want a real spring. I want winter to go away. Permanently.
That is all for now.
ETA: I spoke just moments too soon. After all these years, I think it has finally clicked for Sadie and she was doing awesome on her bike tonight. Perhaps she won't end up as the 40 year old that can't ride a bike.