Yo, that house is ill!

Seriously. It is mad sick up in there!

No, but actually seriously...

Remember when "bad" meant bad instead of cool (or when "cool" referenced temperature?)? Now "sick" and "ill" are joined with "bad" and others to express good things, especially good even.

Around here, we have both meanings in effect.

First of all, the kids are sick. They have been for weeks. Lucas started, passed to Eliana and back again, I guess. Snot and coughs and trouble sleeping. Lucas missed almost two whole weeks of school over it. Gone one week, back the next and sick again the next. At this moment, he is sitting next to me crying because he is so tired and is trying to fall asleep. We did this for hours in the night. Mommy's tired too, Buddy. I feel like crying too sometimes. :/ Thankfully, thus far anyway, Marc and I are both healthy. (Thank you, God for everyday miracles!)

In other sick/ill things, we put an offer on a house. It is sick in the beautiful sense. It's twice the size of our current home and has almost every feature we've said that we want in a house (if we didn't just build our own). It is a short sale which means that the bank is willing to take less for the house than what the current homeowners owe. This means that we have to wait to see what the bank will say about our offer. It is a process that rarely moves quickly. It could be days, weeks or months before we hear back. In the meantime, we are trying to not get our hopes too high, but I have already begun paperwork for the (possibly) new school district for Lucas. We will keep you posted on that front. :)

Lucas has stopped fussing, but needs to sleep, so I am going to try to get him more comfortable and, hopefully, not wake his sister in the process. (Then, perhaps, Mommy can get a little rest too!)

Here are a couple of videos and a link to pictures for now. :)

Blessings and Merry Christmas if I don't get to it before then!

Late November 2010