Thanks as usual to Jennifer at Conversion Diary for coming up with this!

1.  Persistence pays - After several calls over the last three months, I finally got our $100 rebate from AT&T for signing up for DSL way back in December.  I sometimes wonder if they intentionally let stuff like this fall through the cracks because a lot of people wouldn’t remember or bother to track down the money.  A few years ago I probably would have been one of them.

2.  We’re getting a couch!  Sure, it is a hand me down from someone my in-laws know, but it is in great shape and it is even a sofa bed.  We own very little furniture - particularly for two Americans in their early thirties - so this is a very good thing.  Now we’ll have something other than kitchen chairs and two recliners (from my Grandma) to sit on once we move into the house!  Maybe someday we’ll even be able to have furniture that isn’t a hand-me-down…  ah, but I’m probably dreaming too big here.    I’ll just think of it as recycling and an environmentally conscious way of getting furniture.  :-)

3.  Can you believe Nathan is going to be one next month?  Me neither.

4.  Our flooring for the bathrooms, mudroom, utility room and pantry is in!  Now we just need to install it…  I’m excited about it though - we’re using a natural linoleum for all of those rooms and I think it looks really neat.

5.  Gregory so wants to play and rough house with his brother but Nathan just isn’t quite there yet.  In another six months or so they are going to have so much fun together.  Right now though it generally ends with Nathan getting his head bonked, either against the floor or with a toy.  Gregory can be very sweet with him though, helping him back up and giving him hugs and kisses to make him feel better.  But he can also be the one who knocked him over.  Ah, siblings.

6.  It is very hard to do school on a beautiful May day after almost a week of clouds and storms.  It is hard to do school in May in general, but very hard on a day like this.  We did Latin, cursive, and Math today and decided to call it a day.  Granted it took us about as long to do those three things as it usually does to do the five or six things we do in a day so it isn’t like she gained a lot of play time.  Only six more weeks to go.  

7.  Six more weeks.  Six more weeks!  That is definitely the downside to schooling year-round…  but still, neither Emma nor I want to give up our five weeks at Christmas or two weeks at Easter.  We’ll be done on June 26th and we’ll start up again on August 17th.  In between we’ll have summer faith camp, swim lessons, a trip to my parents’ house, a visit from Matt’s brothers, perhaps a visit from some of my family, and (fingers crossed, knock on wood, all that sort of thing) a move into OUR HOUSE!!!  Or at least I can hope.  Matt has said that we’ll be in by the beginning of September, so we shall see.