Wasting Time

The house is silent except for my snoring dog. Jake is busy working on homework, Reagan is sleeping and I’m feeling extremely full from dinner, and one too many cookies. I wanted to reward Jake with some chocolate chip cookies, and to make them healthy I used whole wheat flour. We all know that doesn’t make them any healthier, but does give you that full feeling. I started on my table sanding today. Whenever I start a project like this I always wonder what I thinking. I forget how sanding takes forever and dries my hands out, but I keep at it. I’m determined to finish, and to make this a beautiful table. I want my kids one day to fight over who gets this table. I’m just hoping that I can get this whole project finished before the big move back to the USA. Jake played with Reagan while I sanded the chairs, or should I say chair for 2 hours. Whoever had this table before put a wax finish on it, and it’s eating away my sand paper. Reagan started saying Dad tonight. I think the reason is that Jake kept repeating Dad, Dad, Dad all afternoon to her. She also took 3 steps to him. She never does this for me. She is so close to walking all together. She is able to stand for such a long time now, and can go from sitting to standing without holding onto anything. She has also mastered getting down one step.

I know that I have not really mentioned our move in the blog. The details are that in August we’ll be heading to Maryland. This is a very exciting move, but also sad. We have loved our time in England, and all the traveling we have done. I know that both Jake and I would love to keep traveling Europe, but that would mean we would never leave. It will be nice to be back in the continental USA. It has been almost 6 years since we have lived in the continental USA, which is a little crazy. We are excited to have so many friends close by, and even family is closer. I hope that we’ll even get some visitor while on the east coast. I do feel sometimes that I spend my whole life moving. I used to be upset about it, but now I sort of love it. Don’t get me wrong I hate the packing, unpacking and shipping the dogs part, I love the moving someplace new and everything different. In the almost 6 years Jake and I have been married we have moved a total of 7 times. I know nuts, but it has started to slow down. We have been in the same house in England for the past few years, and hope for the same in Maryland. Until it’s time to move I’m just going to focus one day at a time, and enjoy the last bit of time here. That is wishful thinking on my part! I’m sure something with the move will stress me out and give me another wrinkle!

I’m so excited for our cruise in the next few weeks. It will be great to see so many different places before we leave. I think that Reagan will have traveled more in her first year of life then most do in a whole lifetime. I’m a little nervous about what to pack for her. How do you pack for a kid, for a whole week on a boat? I’m sure we’ll find a thousand non-toys that she’ll love. She loves toilet paper and paper towel roles. If you give her toilet paper she’ll sit and rip it apart for hours. We had a Pottery Barn catalog and she shredded it, and had the best time of her life. I told Jake some people have a ball pit, but we had a paper pit.

Sometimes when your teeth hurt a lens cap is the best thing.
Not a great picture of the Mommy, but I love that you can see her 3 teeth.
Not really sure how Reagan did this, but I left the room and she took a picture of herself. Word to the other Mommies watch out because little kids have extra long arms.