Baby Jeremy Was Born

Okay, so this is old news. Our first nephew on my side--Jeremy Jacob--was born two weeks and one day ago. We finally got to see him when he was six days old. Sadly, I have no clue how long it will be before we see him again. I'm sure he'll have grown a ton by then.

As for us "down south" folk, we aren't exactly at a fun point in our lives. Yep, you guessed it. We're moving again. It's extremely irritating to have to pack up, once again, and live in a horrendous mess of our own belongings as we prepare to move. You probably know what it's like: All you want is to be in the new house, cleaning and organizing everything the way you want it to be. All I want is for it to be over with, so we can move on. Surrounded by boxes and random things that we hauled down from upstairs, I'm having a hard time getting motivated to do anything. Who cares about putting away laundry and washing dishes when it won't make much of a difference? And then there's my writing...don't even get me started.

We're just moving into a different house across town, unfortunately--not back to somewhere we might call "home". Someday....

We move on Saturday, hopefully. We don't really know what's going on, though. We might get the keys Friday, or maybe not until Sunday. And our current landlady wants to move back into this house on Sunday. Really? So we get one day to move. Fortunately, I'm not at all concerned about cleaning this house. It was pretty gross when we moved in, so I'm just going to sweep and wipe off anything that is visibly dirty.

How did I manage to go from babies being born to venting about yet another move? I guess what I'm trying to say is that we're missing out on basically everything by being stuck here. But that's our own fault for moving here. ;)

Resuming Life, Post-Wedding

Well, we're back to our routine of work and...life. We were both ready for the old routine after almost two weeks off from work (and our critters are very happy about it). Those of you who were there already know how everything went. For those of you who weren't, go ahead and visit the tab that's called "Our Wedding" for pictures of the wedding and pre-wedding activities. Okay, it's not quite complete--I'll try to finish that page soon.

Everything turned out perfectly. All that stress and worry--in some ways, it helped everything run smoothly, although it seems like it was for nothing. Especially worrying about the weather. It was an outdoor wedding at the end of August; the weather could have turned rainy or too hot, or even too windy. It was none of those. It was the perfect day.

Until we were driving off. That was when we found out that our honeymoon flight had been cancelled. It shouldn't have been a surprise--this is hurricane season, after all. We weren't able to catch another flight until late in the week, so we ended up camping out at a resort all week instead. It worked out perfectly, because my family was going to be camping there over the next weekend, anyway, so we got to see them again.

Still, now we still have to plan our real honeymoon, since we were only reimbursed for the plane tickets (not the bed and breakfast). On top of that, we are moving this month so we need to get ready to be out of this house by October 1. Sometime soon, I'll need to send out thank you cards, as well.

PLUS: We have a new nephew due to arrive very soon, and I'm getting anxious to go back to Fargo and meet baby Jeremy.

I really shouldn't be blogging right now. I started to organize and go through things upstairs, but got distracted with the idea that I was going to get some writing done (the kind of writing that will earn money). I haven't written a thing in the past month, which has been nice, but...I could have made a lot of money if I had. I definitely needed the break, though. Planning a wedding is a full-time job.

The point of this post was to say "hello" since I've been MIA for the past few weeks. I promise, I'll try to get some more pictures up soon. Until then....