Well, Emma ended up leaving early :( Fay called Friday afternoon and said that they had a change of plans, Tylor was homesick so they decided to leave Sunday instead of Wednesday. No matter how awful those two girls act, it's always sad to see Emma go :( After a couple of days you kind of get used to the din and it just becomes part of the house... it has been
so quiet around here... even though there are still two kids here :) Maria was bored probably 2 minutes after Emma left... she's been moping around ever since. It will probably take a few days to once again get used to the change in the house. We are all sad and feel the emptiness Emma's departure has left. Maria's got a whole month 
and a week or so before school starts to relieve her boredom... last week she said she was ready to go back. She was ready to go back to school last year around the first week of June! :) I'm so glad she enjoys school so much.Well, we ended up getting a new car on Friday!!! We had been somewhat shopping around for the past month or so off and on since the truck will be payed off in September. We decided last year that when we payed the truck off we needed to get a 4WD vehicle, since the winters up here are usually pretty bad (we really lucked out last year)... that and really I was having a very hard time trying to decide where to put 2 car seats in the minivan... the middle row of seats is short and leaves room for someone to climb into the back row - so the seat belt stretches across the opening to get into the back row, so not a good spot for a car seat... so really only 1 car seat can go in the middle row--- so do I shove Duncan in the back or the new baby? I really didn't like either option - don't want to displace Duncan and don't want to have a new baby all the way in the back row... so anyway, long story short (wait, didn't I just give the long story?) ;) Ideally we were looking for something with 4WD and 3 rows of seats... that proved quite difficult to find... especially for what we were willing to spend... we were almo
st thinking about the Ford Escape - which did not have 3 rows, but we figured we would keep the van for when we had Emma... but then really, we go down to Sparta to pick her up in the winter months too... so then we saw a Mercury Mountaineer that was a little over the price of the Ford Escapes we had been looking at, and it had 3 rows of seats! Well, we called the car dealer and set up to go in and look at it... of course they had let someone take it on an overnight test drive... but the dealer said that the Ford Explorer was pretty much the same vehicle... we said "but th
ey don't have the 3rd row of seats" and the dealer said that they did! At first I wasn't really convinced, I still thought the Mercury was a little better - the 3rd row could fold 50/50... the second row folded maybe 70/30 (2 seats and 1 seat)... and the Explorer was a little more expensive... of course the girls were immediately in love with the Explorer! We test drove it on Wednesday, then talked about it all night and decided to take it on an overnight on Thursday... by then we were pretty much sold on it. It is roomy - and two car seats will fit in the middle and Maria can still sit in the middle comfortably with both car seats... and the 2nd row folds in 3rds, so it doesn't matter which spots the car s
eats go in... the 3rd row only folds all or none ;) but that's not really a big deal... the girls were equally comfortable in the back row or the middle row :) and the front seats both have the lumbar thing :) It's a very smooth and comfortable ride :) lots of extra features... and in looking at the safety rating it's the top of it's class! :) Five stars in all category but one, which was 4 stars! So, we're actually quite impressed with it! And we stretched out the payments over 72mos, so amazingly, we're not going to be paying much more than what the truck payments were!! Of course now I have to stop giving soccer mom's in suvs the evil eye!! ;) LOL!! Never thought I would be driving an suv!! It's a little more necessary up north here though... and not too many minivans have 4wd...12 days to go before my due date! Of course every day I think is going to be the day... I just keep getting more and more miserable and ready!! I keep thinking that it can't possibly get any harder to walk, and then it does! ;) just got to think that very soon now I will have less to complain about ;) of course I'll have a different set of complaints ;) lack of sleep probably being the #1... poor Mike - I know he's ready for me to have this baby too --- he's suffering from a lack of sleep now... my having to get up 20 times a night to pee, flipping around all night trying to get comfortable, having restless legs, and the snoring! :) Of course he will still be suffering from lack of sleep when I have the baby - but he'll at least get a few couple hour stretches of sleep in... :)
I've been trying to pass the time by making baby booties ;) which I think
I went a little too far with once I found 2 patterns that I really liked... but they are so darn quick and cute ;) Now I have about 10 other crochet projects either to finish or to start and can't decide which one to work on... it's definitely a good hobby to pass the time with :) I'm so glad I picked it up! It's all thanks to Maria - she got a learn to crochet book from a book order at school - I learned it to try to teach her, but of course it's kind of tedious and monotonous, so a little too boring for her to keep her interest in it... but every now and then, when she's reached a certain level of complete and utter boredom she will show a renewed interest in it...
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