Sorry, so delinquent!

Okay, life has been crazy this month and I apologize right now for not keeping up with this blog! I gave up anything that takes away from my family for Lent....computer, tv, laziness and food has been limited to the minimal amounts...well, at least for another few weeks!
Katherine and I took a trip to Orlando, Tampa and Tallahassee, FL for a choir trip. We left last week and got home this past Wednesday, at 2:30 in the morning. By the time I crawled into bed, got back up to go find a pillow, not to smother hubby with, but to actually put my head on, it was 3:30. Thank heavens dh got up and got the kids ready for school at 5:30! I didn't even hear them. I woke up to the sound of the shower at 9. Figured out later that it was Katherine :) She was required to be back in school by 10:30 and she didn't seem to have any difficulties with that.
It was a really great trip with a great bunch of kids...this was no football trip! These highschoolers were perfectly happy to sit and sing along with The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Pocohontas, etc. I just sat giggling to myself just how "bad" I was compared to these kids at this age!
We spent an entire day at Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, then the next day at Kennedy Space Center, dinner and then went back to Universal to watch Blue Man Group! What a thrill. The kids attended clinics by four different conductors/composers and also did an exchange "concert" with the Gulf Shores Children's Choir. They reminded me a lot of the Red River Children's Choir, where Katherine sang before we moved.
We picked up the kids' old babysitter and she stayed with us for a week. It was a very exhausting few weeks as the day before we picked M. up, we drove three hours just to look at this van and decide within seconds to buy it. We then had to drive three hours back home, go to bed, drive four hours the next day to pick up M. and then drive back! Paul had to leave the next day or so after all that and I tried desperately to get my house in order to leave M. more free time to just be with the kids. By the end of last week I was exhausted and the 14 hour bus ride didn't help! The choir director at Katherine's school kept us hopping every second. We left the hotel almost every morning by 8 and didn't return until after 10pm! My body clock still is off! Oh, and the cell phone she so desperately wanted is now at the bottom of the lagoon below "The Hulk" roller coaster. She had it for a whole 30 minutes! Luckily At&t let us just purchase a new phone and transfer the info to the new phone, so I was only out $18.75.
All the kids are fine and seemed to do well without me. Paul got home the Saturday after I left and then took M. home on Sunday. He then turned around and left yesterday. At least he has a nice comfy hotel room to himself to sleep in!
I took Megan to Sylvan Thursday for testing. She is really struggling with school and we are hoping they can offer some advise/help as to how we can help her. I really am at my wits end at trying to get her to learn/retain ANYTHING! We are dis enrolling Rebecca from gymnastics as we can't afford the lessons when Megan's tutoring is so much more needed. Rebecca has been a good sport about it as we told her we'd try to get her into a summer camp or something.
Kimberly went to see an orthopaedic specialist on Friday. Her bit of wisdom was that Kimberly has soft joints and hopefully by age 5 she will outgrow it. She showed me very specifically how to pop her "nursemaid's elbow" back into place (our visit to Children's hospital last week ran $627 for a whole 5 minutes and no tests).
Well, I am falling asleep while trying to think of what to catch everyone up on. I'll have to get some new pics on here as I've heard some complaints as to my Christmas photo!

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Love and blessings,
Kris