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.