The fun times

Dorian woke up super sick this morning.  Major fever and snot.  Poor boy.  So, he got his iPad and Tylenol.  He loves technology.



Marsi and Dorian also like to use our big tub as a slide.  They can have fun in there for crazy amounts of time before I have to kick them out in order to lock the door so Dorian doesn't ultimately play in the toilet.

Technology woes and update

So, My smarty phone went to technology heaven 5 months before I could get a cheaper one.  I decided that we are just going to forego the smart phone for those 5 months.  This was after my laptop died and my iPad was taken over by the toddler.

We have been homeschooling so I knew that I would need a desktop computer.  So, with our car dying in Texas, we looked at our situation and decided that the desktop computer would be the first thing to tackle.

So, I have this computer!  YAY!  The only bad thing is that I no longer can post to instagram. Boo. I also got my fancy shmancy Nikon D3300 so I have been trying to consciously take pictures with the good camera...with no where to put them. I think that I might have to resurrect the blog.

Dorian is almost 2 years old!!!!  How did that happen?  He still nurses 1x a day right before his nap.  I haven't figured out how to stop that and have it work at the same time.  We always get a week routine down and then at church it flies out the window and he is nursing to sleep in the mother's lounge.  We will eventually figure it out.

Marsi turned 4 years old in October.  She is our beautiful spunky spitfire red head to a tee.  She is in the process of learning to read and she is soooooo excited about it!  She gets discouraged every once in a while if it seems too hard, but I am trying my hardest to teach her that life will be full of having to try a bit harder so we can grow.  She is SO eager to learn.  "Mom, can we play homeschool!" is a sentence that I hear every day.  

Life is good.  We have been in Colorado for a full 3 years today. It amazes me how much this is HOME!  I honestly do not consider myself to have a hometown.  We moved a lot, got bullied a lot, my parents moved to Missouri (YAY!!) so there is no reason to go to most of the places that I have ever lived in.  I truly hope that my children can call Colorado Springs HOME.  I wish I had that sometimes and it is hopefully something I can do for my children. 

Endrit is doing quite well at work.  He still works at Chromatic Technologies Inc. as a research chemist.  I love that he is able to be in the lab getting his hands dirty and innovating like he always wanted to in graduate school.   

Me, I am a homeschooling stay at home mother.  Pretty much my favorite place to be.  I also care for a child of a single dad each weekday.  It has added an interesting dynamic to the home, but, as I have had him for a few months now, he is a really good kid and it is good for us.

With the desktop, I am also able to do more of the design I like to do.  Currently I am working on my 2017 calendar in the format that I have finally found that I like.  It only took me 30 years. I will also be starting my digital scrapbooking once I get the refresher on my Photoshop skills.  I can't believe how much I have lost on how to use that program.  

We love our home that we moved into over a year ago now.  We like what we do.  The kids seem to be happy a majority of the day.  We have our share of troubles, but we are happy.