catching up

We've had a rather busy/chaotic week and have fallen a bit behind in posting to the blog. Where to begin..hm...well, we've been administering antibiotics to all 6 cats this week, morning and night. If you think getting medicine down a little kids' throat is hard, whoa...try forcing it down 6 cats throats with an eye dropper at 6am. Awesome. Most of them are finished as of today, a few of them have a bit to go. thankfully, everyone has recovered and the house is back to its normal state of activity, aka chaos, with Landa dragging gloves and scarves all over the place, and Marvelea eating any food she can manage to find. What in the world will our cats do with a baby? Oh , clarification on the quantity of cats we "have"..we only claim 5 of them as residents. The kitten, Dewey, is a boarder that we are still trying to find a home for. Of course, he is a kitten, and therefore, the most active and tends to be quite a handful. He's a dear, just a terror sometimes. We have a prospective home or two, but if you know anyone, we're surely open to referrals. We prefer to only take 5 to Allentown with us.

In house news, we had inspection on our prospective new house this past Monday. Went well, few minor things we'd like to see them clear up before we buy, not sure what we'll do if they refuse. We also found out Monday that in order to get the rates we had been looking at for our mortgage, we would have to either sign an agrement of sale to sell our current house or list it on the market by the end of this past week. Pressure. Fun. We had been hoping to sell the house to our neighbor, friend and pastor, Andres, and had been going back and forth with him since December. We hadn't heard much from him in the past 2 months regarding the house, and in the meantime, had another friend interested. Still...the timeline of 4 full days to get an agreement of sale signed seemed essentially, impossible. Well, God continues to pave the way for us on this journey to Allentown...we spoke with Andres, and he gave us a solid answer of YES, I WANT THE HOUSE by Wednesday...we worked up some numbers with our awesome realtor who has been a super help in both buying and selling...Thursday he came to look over the house with us, and by midnight Thursday, an agreement of sale was signed! So, we have settlement on the new house March 27, and settlement for selling our current house on May 29. We'll move most things up to Atown before that point, but are welcome to stay until Jonathan finishes out the school year here. So most of the major things are in place...now its just a matter of negotiating with the sellers of the atown house, and helping Andres get things in line for our sale in May.

Jonathan has some interviews with Allentown School District personnel coming up in the next few weeks, so please pray that those go well and we have some sort of set up that leads us right into next year. We're taken care of through the summer if he finishes out his current school year, but absolutely would like to get things set in stone for the fall...though generally the education system isn't quite cooperative with such a timeline. As far as my job goes...it ends when it ends...and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to find something to immediately start up in Allentown and keep part-time throughout next year, but uh..yea..chances of that are slim when you're a pregnant chick job searching in a recession. So who knows...maybe I have to be serious about Arbonne, maybe I will find some sort of work-at-home option (top pick in many ways), or maybe I can begin some sort of employment that will lead to a full-time position when I'm able to make that transition after the baby. My latest obsession is wanting to work for the IRS so I can be a governement agent of some sort, and investigate people in some way, but that's probably because I've been watching way too much 24. My secret dream used to be the CIA, so I guess I've leveled out in some sense. Ha. Oh the search for adventure I find myself in way too often. Really, i'll take anything that's fulfilling and intersting. Money is great, but I miss having a job I believe in, and miss working for a cause/organization that I feel confident supporting. My current position is far, far from either of those things. It'll all work out..for now, I know I have to keep pursuing the things I have natural abilities in, develop other skills, and enjoy the fact that I have a lot of time in the next year to complete some schooling/tasks/whatever that I normally don't have a chance to. Still want to master French and Spanish, and truly would love to pick Arabic lessons up again...maybe i WILL work for the government! I need to start watching more pratical tv shows.

Anyhow, sorry, that's all quite "astray" from the main purpose of this blog-baby updates-but I suppose this stuff is directly related to having a baby, and will greatly define some of his/her life at some point. In real "baby news", we have our first ultrasound Friday, I'm kind of nervous...I can be such a doomsdayer and just almost expect to hear the worst news. HA, like today, we get our taxes done, and OWE money. Being married with no kids and 2 decent salaries sucks...I hate tiered income brackets. Oh well. We'll make it. Just annoying. So yea, Friday is a bit scary, as is next Friday, when they screen for crazy things (not sure I agree with that stuff in the first place...). I've never been a fan of the "medical" world or the "doctor knows best" approach to life. If I'm dying, go ahead, fix me up...otherwise, I just don't believe that they have all the answers, and don't feel like its healthy for our society to be so reliant on tests and screenings and nerve-wrecking hypothetical scenarios. We'll see how Friday goes, I guess if we really clash with this doctor in terms of our philosophies on health and pregnancy, we can figure something else out. I just don't want this to be one big science project...it's a natural process of life and I feel more comfortable proceeding with that frame of mind.

My mom bought me some summer maternity clothes. Wow. Maternity clothes can be cute and such, and she's a master at finding bargains, so I'm not gonna argue. I just can't quite picture me filling out pants that size! Phew! The baby is already racking up clothes and costumes...looks like he'll be wearing a fleece dinosaur suit most of the winter. Supposed to be a halloween-type costume, but when my mom asked Jonathan what he though of it, he said, "Awesome, our kid is going to wear that all winter long, those suits are great." Not sure what kind of species-identity crisis this child will grow up with, but you can all look forward to pictures of our baby wearing animal costumes I guess. She also got him/her a Christmas outfit..holy crap, we are going to have a baby this Christmas. Only our third married Christmas, and we'll have this little kid bobbling around on the floor dazzled by the tree lights. Wild. How do we approach Christmas in a sustainable way? Ug..the insanity begins.

Ok, time to get things wrapped up and get ready for bed. I think my posts never show up with the correct time, but it's 9:30 and we go to bed early these days.