Tyler was playing with my camera the other night and this is the only picture that turned out, you can see how rosy Connor's cheeks are from his cold.
This is a picture Ty took after breakfast one morning a few weeks ago, notice the cinnamon sugar still on his face from breakfast.
Well the last month has been pretty crazy, we are 6 weeks into Brian's 10 week absence. We are all ready to be done. The boys miss him and ask regularly when he will be home, it's starting to feel like that is the only question they ask most days. I am really missing Brian, and he is really ready to come home and not have someone telling him when and how to do every thing in his life. I FINALLY booked my tickets to fly our for his Basic Training graduation. I am going with the wife of one of his Army friend. I will be meeting her for the first time when I stay at her house the night before we fly to Oklahoma together and get to see our husbands and then share a hotel and rental car with her and sit next to her on a plane and oh so many other things I'm a little worried to do with a total stranger. Our husbands spend pretty much every waking hour together, they even attend church together and are in the same Platoon and have decided that they want to be friends so their wives should be too. I am glad I am not traveling alone and at least if I get stuck somewhere or sick or something there will be someone with me.
In the next month I have many an online H&R Block class to do, at least 1 test to take after I finish those classes, many butt in the seat classes to endure and all so I can gain the privilege of working again come January. I work with my dad and he and I have discovered there will be few experienced preparers (basically, him, me and our boss who has little free time from the paperwork to do taxes, and honestly far less experience than me) who will be working this season. We have to have at least 1 of us in the office at all times. Our office is open 9-9 M-F and 9-5 on Saturday, that means I will be working WAY more hours than the 12-24 hours a week I worked last year. I will be working many nights, which I haven't done since I was pregnant with Tyler(he's 5 remember) so it should be an interesting adjustment for us all, as my mom will be covering the time I am at work or my brother in law who is in school will be when we are both at work yeah should be really interesting.
Connor has been sick this week so we got to stay home today and just relax while my parents took Tyler to church. He is doing better but we are trying to keep him out of the cold to avoid the Bronchitis that is ever present in my family.
I took Brian's car into the shop to discover it had a broken axle and the brakes were on too tight, both of which I've suspected for months, but Brian assured me were fine. $200 later it is doing fine, and that price was much lower than I had anticipated it would be. My Expedition has been acting up and so it gets to go into the shop tomorrow morning, hoping for a similar price to fix but I'm sure I can't get that lucky twice. And why did they both decided to need to be fixed at the same time, oh because I was actually going to put money in savings this month, silly me.
All in all we are all doing pretty well and are really looking forward to some time to relax over Thanksgiving and Christmas break, but mostly being together for Christmas.
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