Time to post

I have no idea how people have the time to keep up their blogs! I myself have been struggling with time management or getting done everything I need/want to get done in a given week. But I do realize that I haven't posted in ages and thought I better update everyone before heading down to the treadmill for my 4 1/2 mile run. Right now I am training for a half marathon. I will be heading down to Florida (Walt Disney World to be exact) to run the Disney Princess Half Marathon the first weekend of March. I will be running with at least two of my friends..possibly more. My friend Jaime from Maine will be joining me and my friend Jane from Colorado will be joining me also! I am very excited to see both of them but I haven't been able to see Jane since they flew the KY coop over 4 years ago! I am looking forward to this time and obviously preparing to run the half marathon takes quite a bit of my time since I am not an overly fast runner. I run about a 12 minute mile though I do hope to get it to the 11ish mark.

Homeschooling seems to take a LOT of my time also. I am really enjoying the time that I have with Mackenzie and love to see how much she is learning. She is doing well and it makes me happy to see her growing and being challenged. I don't have the answer to how long we will do this...though I am leaving that up to her at the moment. If she wants to homeschool again next year, than I plan on doing it again next year. She is pretty proud that she got a question right on "Are you smarter than a 5th grader."

Ainsley is loving being in school and when I am available I volunteer in her class. Sometimes that is every week for a couple of hours and sometimes it just depends on whether I have a sitter. She loves her teacher A LOT as do I. She is a great teacher and the kids in the class are pretty good. They just had a Polar Express day yesterday which involved LOTS of cool things like hot chocolate, wearing pajamas to school, getting bells on their desks and watching the movie:)

Ellie is doing ok. We have had a few health issues and concerns in the last couple of months. She has been complaining of headaches so we finally got an MRI of her head last Friday. The doctor called to let us know that everything turned out fine, except that she has some opacification in her maxillary sinus'. She put her on an antibiotic to clear up any possible sinus infection that she might have and has sent us on the the ENT. She will see the ENT this afternoon after school. She has been having quite a few tantrums, enough that I don't like to take her out very often. So that has been difficult for me. She has speech weekly, OT and PT on a every few months rotation and various other doctor's appts, so she keeps me hopping. She is doing pretty well with preschool though starting up with the tantrums a bit again. Not sure if she is regressing or if her behavior is cyclical based on the fall season...we really have no idea. She had been doing really well at the end of last year and the very beginning of this year. Hopefully, it is just a developmental stage and she will move out of it.

Jeff has been traveling quite a bit also, which in the past hasn't been a big deal, but in the last few months has become more stressful for me. I don't get a lot of breaks from the girls what with homeschooling and not having a lot of reliable sitters to call. I am in the process of trying to hunt down more sitters but once again it is one of my most difficult challenges!

Me...I am hanging in there. Depends on the hour/day/minute you check with me. Overall things flow along smoothly, but I am looking forward to the Christmas break and having Jeff home for a while and the girls off school!