I miss Daddy.

I've heard an awful lot of that lately. And its because Todd's hardly been home. He is usually still in bed when the boys leave for school at 7:45, and he gets up, gets ready, and leaves with only enough time to say goodbye to the babies. Then the boys are home in the afternoon at 3:00 and 3:30. Todd SHOULD be home by about 6. But for the last several weeks he's not been home till 9:00 or 10, or later. And the boys are in bed by 8:30 at the latest. They are all old enough now to notice that things aren't normal, and that Daddy should be home, and that they miss him terribly. And I just feel bad. There's nothing I can do about it. He's working alot, he's at church, he's doing side jobs for extra cash.. .all because he loves us all so much. Yet my kiddos would trade it all, just to have daddy home at night.

Kendyl this morning realized Daddy was still here after she woke up. And she came in and was talking on and on, trying to convince daddy that he needed to stay home, and go shopping with us. And she was letting him know how much she's missed him. It just about broke his heart. She's just now starting to become a daddy's girl, and he's totally eating it up. And to know that he's missing out on opportunities to soak in the affection bothers him.


Other than that, things have been going ok. We've been pretty busy. We've been going to the park alot, and I've been doing a lot of cleaning. Well, not so much cleaning, as washing clothes, packing them away, and sorting out the new seasons of clothing. That, and packing some boxes and bins. All to start the process that will be ahead of us.

It sounds like the money from our financial provider should be in this week, which means we get to go look at houses. I'm kind of looking forward to it, but not really. I know the house we get next isn't going to be a forever house, and most likely will only get us a few more years along. . and I DREAD moving. I dread moving into a house knowing full well that I'll be moving again. Blah. Don't look forward to that. And it just kind of takes the fun out of looking for a new place to stay, knowing it will be a 'crutch property' as my sister in law so lovingly dubbed it. Just something to get us through till we can get what we want. Our trouble is there's a house out there. That could be our forever house. . .but is just about 40,000 out of our price range. Strange when you think in the scheme of things it only adds about 100 a month, but that's just more than we can go right now.

But, we're all hanging in there, and doing ok. I'll try to do a bigger, more specific update on the kids later this week. There'll be lots to update. Dallas and how well he's doing on the meds, Gabriel, and his unwillingness to even TRY to read, when we KNOW he can, Kaleb and his rock to the head, and Kendyl and her discovery of princess dresses. . . so much to say, so little time right now!!!


More later! I promise!