Cambria went pee pee on the potty 2 days ago- she was exactly 2 years and 2 months old! She also went again yesterday! And she ran to sit on the potty when we got home from going out to dinner after Zack's basketball game tonight! This is incredible! She is totally initiating this whole potty training thing. Everyone told me potty training girls was much easier than boys....my boys wouldn't even stand near the toilet until they were 3! Lol! We are not pushing the potty training issue on her at all, she wants to do it!
Zack got his report card for grading period 2 the other day, and he got straight A's again. Whew!
I can check Jacob's grades online and he has straight A's.
Joshua is in 1st grade, and they don't do A's B's C's yet, they only do E's and S's and N's and I's on their report cards. He is in the top reading group. He is a math whiz and can do a lot of math problems in his head.
Zack kicked butt at his last fall travel baseball game of the season a few weeks ago, and got a game ball! So proud of him.
Life seems perfect right now, doesn't it?! Ha ha things are never perfect in anyone's life, I am just choosing to focus on the positives now. There is that lingering issue of the sick family member with stage 4 cancer that wishes to remain anonymous. Very hard to deal with that when you are forbidden to tell anyone about it. I mean, I can talk to D about it, but he just lost his mother last month. God, I can't believe my MIL has been gone for a month already. My FIL is coming out to visit pretty soon for a few months. The kids love playing with him.
I have finally started working out again. After months of being persuaded to go to this new class, I finally have gone the last 3 weeks in a row! It's a 90 minute class...half cross fit and half spinning class. Good Lord, 90 minutes and I'm still alive to tell about it! Ha ha! It helps that 2 of my friends teach the class.
November is national adoption month. As always, I am thinking about Cambria's birth mom and also her entire birth family. I'm sure they all feel the loss of one of their "own" not growing up with them. I'm happy we have an open adoption and they can watch her grow up across the miles. We keep talking about trying to get back to NC to visit her birth family, but I just don't know when we will have the time. We are going to Hawaii for 2 weeks this summer....part of the time in Maui with 2 families we are friends with and their kids, then we are trying out the new Dis.ney Aul.ani resort on Oa.hu! It looks amazing! D doesn't get any more time off this summer. I told him he needed to take off Zack's bday in June, but he thinks he can only get the early shift that day. Bummer.
The vacation might be a little over the top, but one thing we have learned is that life is short. Order the dessert. Enjoy life. This time last year, we had no idea D's mom had terminal cancer and would be gone soon and not around to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas this year with her husband, kids and grandchildren.
I am going to start addressing holiday cards this weekend....after the turkey dinner. And not a minute before!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Wishing you all wonderful time spent with your families and good health. It really is priceless.
Enjoy what you have as you never know what might befall any of us. I liked the comment life is short so eat dessert first.
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