I am counting down the minutes... the minutes to the end of the seminary semester deadline. No matter how diligent Caleb is during the semester, it always comes down to a nightmare week or two before the semester is over. He even took 3 days of precious vacation time to try to get all of it finished, which I have to admit, I was NOT happy about! As many of you current and former seminary wives can attest to, this means your seminarian is literally gone all waking hours of the day and honestly some of the sleeping hours too! Consequently, things at home suffer and let me tell you, suffer this week they have!! I have been trying really hard to stay on top of the housework for the last few months (which is difficult when literally the minute you put something away it intrigues your child and they want to play with it again). My grade this week is a big fat F-! But in a mere 30 hours or so, we will have Caleb all to ourselves... for a few weeks until summer class starts. :) Since Im pretty sure the only thing Caleb is going to want to do for at least a little while on Saturday is sit on the couch and play with the kids, I am hoping to get LOTS done. After all, I only have about 6 weeks till this baby rocks our world!! Ive got a ton to do!
The big news of the week is that Uncle Matt's back at the Costons! He got a job at LifeNet Health, where Caleb works (and many of our friends too for that matter) here in Virginia Beach. So he is here indefinitely! The next few weeks before summer school will be filled with building him what we affectionately call "Matt-yard Hideaway". (its funny if you know that the name of our fence/deck business is called Backyard Hideaway) :) We live in a little 2 bedroom so there is literally no room for poor old Uncle Matt. So, we are building him a glorified shed in the back yard. :) Some people we tell feel bad for him, but not us. By the time they are done with that thing, he might have it better than we do! :) I might actually escape to Matt-yard Hideaway with a glass of lemonade myself. :) Goal for this weekend... take the contents of the shed to storage, tear it down and take it to the recycling place and if we get ambitious, clean up the garage. Lofty, but possible. Progress pics to follow...
3 comments:
I hope caleb comes back to you very soon!!
I am sure matt's place is going to be so great! BTW, where ARE you going to put child #3??? :)
Are the 30 hours almost up? I'm glad to read what's going on with you. About your previous post, asking myself what my motive for writing is also a struggle for me. I still find myself re-writing or deleting sometimes and think that I need to post more pictures of what my kitchen looks like when I have been neglecting it...*Sigh* : )
kel- as much as i hate it, he will be in with us for at least a few months. g stayed in with us for almost a whole year... hope its not that long for this one!
bethany- well, it looks like the 30 hours are not going to be enough time for poor caleb. so if he gets the extension he filed for, it will be longer. boo hoo... :)
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