It's been awhile since we've updated each other on our lives/etc...and I thought it would be nice for the new people to learn more about us and for us to learn about them...as well as being a great opportunity to just catch up with each other's lives.
I'll start
As most of you already know, baby #4 (Aidan) made his way into the world in November....has it already been 8 months? Where does the time go??? Since then, life has been a crazy rollercoaster (as evidenced by the thousand color changes that I made to the site ). I've had a lot of ups and downs as I navigate becoming a mommy again after so much time. Andrew is now 9, Amanda 8 and Alex turned 5 in February.
I work in the Bio dept at our local U very part-time and continued working in the Spring. I was able to bring the baby in with me which was nice.
This summer is absolutely flying by...I worked for 5 weeks prepping a bio lab and helping teach two mornings a week which meant I was at work between 6-6am and came home about 9.30-10. (super yawn...way too early for me!) My mother-in-law was here for 3 weeks (ummm, those days didn't really seem to fly by though and I did enough complaining that I think ThuVan was ready to send me a pacifier or those little men with the white coats!) and since then I've been busy planning our very first familiy vacation in 10 years of marriage ..... I am also spending about 1-2 hours a day with the kids working on german...
Workwise I'm writing some bio exam questions for the ETS...it's all work-from home stuff and I've been able to do this in the evenings.
Other than that I've kept busy antagonizing the young pre-meds over at the sdn and putting my foot in my mouth around here... I painted my living room yellow...which in itself was an experience. Those of you who have been here long enough know how freaky I can get about...colors ...and we ended up painting the room three different yellows before I finally decided on the final color (which I'm happy with for now ). I'll have to post a pic. I'm even contemplating painting the kitchen orange 8O so we'll have to have some deep therapy sessions around here about that before I take the plunge!
So how is everyone else and what have you guys been up to???
kris
I'll start
As most of you already know, baby #4 (Aidan) made his way into the world in November....has it already been 8 months? Where does the time go??? Since then, life has been a crazy rollercoaster (as evidenced by the thousand color changes that I made to the site ). I've had a lot of ups and downs as I navigate becoming a mommy again after so much time. Andrew is now 9, Amanda 8 and Alex turned 5 in February.
I work in the Bio dept at our local U very part-time and continued working in the Spring. I was able to bring the baby in with me which was nice.
This summer is absolutely flying by...I worked for 5 weeks prepping a bio lab and helping teach two mornings a week which meant I was at work between 6-6am and came home about 9.30-10. (super yawn...way too early for me!) My mother-in-law was here for 3 weeks (ummm, those days didn't really seem to fly by though and I did enough complaining that I think ThuVan was ready to send me a pacifier or those little men with the white coats!) and since then I've been busy planning our very first familiy vacation in 10 years of marriage ..... I am also spending about 1-2 hours a day with the kids working on german...
Workwise I'm writing some bio exam questions for the ETS...it's all work-from home stuff and I've been able to do this in the evenings.
Other than that I've kept busy antagonizing the young pre-meds over at the sdn and putting my foot in my mouth around here... I painted my living room yellow...which in itself was an experience. Those of you who have been here long enough know how freaky I can get about...colors ...and we ended up painting the room three different yellows before I finally decided on the final color (which I'm happy with for now ). I'll have to post a pic. I'm even contemplating painting the kitchen orange 8O so we'll have to have some deep therapy sessions around here about that before I take the plunge!
So how is everyone else and what have you guys been up to???
kris
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