So life is crazy once again. I haven’t had a spare moment to get online and write this past week. Mike is gone all the time and both kids decided to give up naps. I’ve yet to perfect the one-handed nursing and using a laptop maneuver and the laptop doesn’t scream if I ignore it for two seconds… Add to that the fact that I still can’t lift even the laundry basket without feeling pain and the chaos mounts. Mike keeps telling me that the highest expectation I should have for any day is just getting to shower. Granted half the time I can’t even accomplish that, but it frustrates me none the less. So one of these days I get around to actually writing all the random blog posts I have in my head…
But as an update to the last post, I wanted to say that we did find a house in Austin. Amazingly enough we are closing this week (I had no clue such a short wait was even possible). It’s a great place that is still in Austin (although it feeds into a suburban school district). The neighborhood is really diverse. We are in an older neighborhood (Lamplighter Village) – just a block west of us is subsidized housing and a block north there is a fancy newish subdivision. Just east of us is the commercial district that of course has the ubiquitous Starbucks and the big grocery store, but also a Halal market, a used book store, and both an Indian and Ethiopian take-out. We met our next door neighbors who have lived there since the neighborhood was built (back when they could raise goats in their backyard) and they seem really nice. The house is a 3/2 with energy efficient updates and there is a playhouse in the backyard (Emma’s excited). We hope we can feel at home there and become part of the community soon.
So anyway… that’s the craziness for now.