Back to School & Back to Blogging!

Wow I can't believe it's been a year since I've blogged! A lot has happened! One major thing is yesterday all 3 of Jones kids entered school. Gunnar 3rd grade, Lily 2nd grade, & Molly Kindergarten. No more kiddos at home. It is such a weird feeling to hear no noises in the house. Molly was sooo excited to start school, she was counting down the hours. All three have great teachers this year so I'm looking forward to a great year. Since all 3 kids are in school I've been wondering what I should do about work. I'm really not ready to jump full time into nursing yet since I have the cheerleading in the evenings and the kids are in so many activities too/ So I've decided to do some subbing at the grade schools. That way I can keep the kids hours and schedule and still be working some. After volunteering in the school and working at the preschool I realized I enjoyed it so I'm going to give it a go see how it turns out! Speaking of cheerleading it starts full swing this week with our first football game this Friday night and with the Varsity squad competing at State Fair Saturday. Since the stage collapsed at the State Fair last Saturday they have moved our competition to the convention center downtown. The girls have worked all summer on this routine so I'm excited to see how they'll do!
Another major thing going on today is my sister-in-law is having surgery...again. Last November she had a mass removed from her right side that was diagnosed benign tissue. After not feeling better she seeked more opinions form different specialists, come to find out the surgeon did not take "the mass" out like he said he had. After a PET scan a couple months ago it did show uptake in the mass so they are thinking it is a low grade sarcoma. Today a team of specialists are going in to remove the mass so please stop and say a prayer for her and the doctors. She also has a blog that talks about this at www.fromthegrove.blogspot.com Her July 23rd post is her explaining the surgery and mass much better than I just did and asking to lift her up in prayer because this is a very difficult surgery since the mass is in a funny spot. Praying for and Love you Shannon!
Another major thing is WE MOVED!! We moved in April to a huge wonderful house!! It was Kevin's grandmas house that is next door to his parents. It's so much bigger than are other house. The kids all have their own room and more bathrooms it's great! The kids have been having trouble getting used to the size especially at night we hear a lot of "I'm scared". Still 3 months later it's this way so I'm hoping soon everyone is adjusted. I love the house the neighborhood, the neighbors, the location, just everything about it except how much updating the inside needs! All the walls but 1 room are white so it's like a blank canvas! All the doors and trim is that dark wood though and I'm not ready to tackle the project of changing all that to remodeling takes place waaayyyyy down the road, so I've been trying to match paint to the wood which has been difficult. I finally painted the living room last week and love love love it! I'm not near finished but already love the color and feels more like my home! Since this place was Kevin's grandmas it has been hard to make it feel like ours. A lot of the furniture is new to us also so with new house, new furniture it doesn't feel like home. I'm hoping now with the kids in school I can get walls painted & pictures hung and start making this feel like home!