Because apparently a few people are still reading this

Been away for a while, but we got busy? Dog ate our blog? I think it would be easier to bring you up to speed if I really put some effort into it, but I just spent over an hour working on a slide show to put on here but UGH foiled again!! Ugh. Instead of taking extra chemistry classes as electives...why didn't I study web design or computers?? Eh, bye-gones.

Anyway. Since last posting in November so much has happened. I will try to keep it quasi chronological and then upload a a couple updated photos of the kiddos and then try, try, try to keep it up to date moving forward. [I promise.]

• Jeremy and I caught a football game at Notre Dame and experienced the ultimate in tailgating.
• We hosted a nice Thanksgiving at home with a full house and PUMPKIN ROLLS!!!
• Claire busted her mouth, BAD. Complete with two fractured front teeth and an intruded incisor that has since dropped back down from below her gum line. This prompted a series of questions and several discussions regarding the frequency in which she trips over and into things she ought to be able to see her way around. Enter the A Ha Moment: Maybe she can't see! And that is how Claire came to have glasses at 2 years old.
• We celebrated a wonderful, wonderful Christmas at home. Jack got ROCKED, ravaged and leveled by the stomach flu, starting on the 23rd and finally calling it a wrap on Christmas morning, poor little man. We had Nana and both Papas over to share the holiday. Each year with the kids is more and more fun. Jack was happy to explain to anyone that would listen that Christmas is "Da Baby Jesus' birthday and I get my blue sword with the red button." He got his blue light-saber, no worries. Claire asked EVERY single mall and Salvation Army Santa for a "Pink kitty cat named Livia". She got that too.
• Our beloved dog Tika lost her battle with cancer and we had to say a very tearful goodbye on New Year's Eve. We must have cried every single day for 2 months. Claire says her prayers each night before bed and asks "Jesus take care my Tika." And tells anyone who will listen about her Tika in Heaven with Jesus. Heartbreaking.
• We finally accepted that we needed a puppy/dog to liven our spirits and adopted an instantly loved boxer we named Ruby. She is a sweety and has brought happiness back to our other dog/large cat Bailey who had been rather depressed after Tika passed. Bailey is genetically a dog but is only a litter box short of actually being a cat.
• We had a case conference regarding Jack's progress in school and whether he was moving on to kindergarten [he is], but at that conference they gave us his file which listed his anticipated graduation: May of 2022 Ha, ha, ha....that means we are all old.
• I lost my job a couple weeks ago, not so funny...but we are dealing with it and I am in the hunt for a new one along with a TON of other people. Apparently, despite years of my parents telling me so, I am not special but am in fact like a lot of other people.
• It is time for some Spring Break fun!! I promise to chronicle our week! Stay tuned!