Two Years Later


It is 2 years since my last blog post.  I can't believe it has been THAT long.  My oldest is 8 years old now, and my little one is going to be 5 next month.  We dabbled in homeschooling after 3 failed attempts at various schools, and now that we have a routine for the homeschooling, I have to get a job and the kids have to go back to the schooling world.  We are trying to roll with the punches, love what we have and learn from the rest.

I think there is so much to write about, I don't know where to start!  We are in Austin, Tx now and I love the weather, the city, and the people here.  I very much miss our friends in Minneapolis.  The kids are older now, and it is harder to make connections with people when we aren't going to playgroups every day.  There are play groups, but no kids for me to use to encourage my kids into the car.  Meeting new friends isn't enough to motivate them into the car. . . and I tend to be too distracted with looking for a job and keeping the house livable to fight them on going (and there isn't any moms that I am excited to see. . . there are some really awesome people, don't get me wrong, it was just nice to have the known factor or people we already have a connection with).  We did actually go to playgroups all the time when we first got here last May and June, but there were SO many times that we didn't see anyone there that was obviously AP or there was no one at all.  Everyone here looks AP, so it is hard to pin point the "right" group.  By "right", I mean they are expecting us.  Perhaps being in school and having all the school events will allow us to meet some people in the neighborhood.  We are in Barton Hills neighborhood now, though I am going to be moving into an apartment soon.  Jay and I are getting a divorce.  We are getting along fine as friends, but we realized that for many different reasons, we do not work as a married couple (some reasons are not mine to divulge, and others are minor things, that you would think we could work through, but really we have tried).