Monthly update

Well, I am a little shocked that it has been a month since my last post. Whoops! Where has the time gone? So the skinny on our life for the past month...
We put the house on the market and we got an offer on the house, and we accepted the offer. But we are waiting for the bank to approve the offer because we are hoping to do a short sale since the house market tanked after we bought the house. If we get the bank approval, and if they do the paperwork in a timely fashion, our closing date is January 4th. So the Pilz Family will go house shopping and move afterthe holidays.

Where you ask? What a wonderful question. We are looking at Boston and D.C. We want to be near family and are getting some really exciting job offers in D.C. and Suffolk right now, but not as many exciting ones in Boston. It is a challenge for Karl to decide what he really wants to do right now, and a bigger challenge for us as a family to decide where we are going. Naturally we a re torn. We have come to love this area, and will miss it very much. We love the weather, the community we live in, the proximity to all the comforts without as much hustle and bustle of a larger area, and all the many comforts there are to our location.

I have never been great at moving or change. I feel like a cat, clinging all paws spread wide to the bathroom door frame prior to a bath! It is not easy or fun for me to move. That is probably why we never made it overseas. I think I felt more adventurous prior to having kids, but the post-kid me does not feel so inclined. I can't help thinking that if we seem unable to take advantage of what our current areas have to offer, why would moving to another country jump start our inner tourist? But as Karl pointed out, we would have fewer responsibilities with a rental home overseas. But since we no longer have overseas job offers, I am not stressing about that any more. I do feel like grabbing the girls from school to go tour Williamsburg before we move though. I can't believe we didn't make it to Busch Gardens this summer either! I love that place, or I did when I was 14!

So here we are, trying to ifugre out the future and dodging our day to day challenges. The fun crisis-du-jour was Emily dealing with a round of lice. YUCK! I don't like pest. I pay happily for a bug spray service. This has always been lurking in the back of my mind as a childhood curse I was hoping to avoid and never experience. No such luck! Have I ever mentioned how thick her hair is? No, well, let me mention it now! Imagine all the hair on my head, and Karl's head put together, now give Emily just a little bit more than that. I saw something in her hair at a doctors appointment on Wednesday, and pulled it out to look at it. The hairs on the abck of my neck registered it as a possible disaster, but I tried to convince myself it ways nothing. I googled it at bedtime, and felt a dull thud. I told myself if I checked in the morning and found any more, well then it might be lice eggs. Yup. In the I found 5 more right away. Since Heidi had come for a visit, she was able to watch my kids while I ran to Walgreens for supplies. The combs I bought had little affect on her hair, and not wanting to dump major chemicals on her head, I began to section out her hair and pull any eggs I found out between my thumb and fingernail. Eeew! it took about 9 hours to do her head the first day. The next day took about 6 hours. I did a poison free shampoo that day to kill any adults that might be there since I never saw or found any. I still think that is weird. I have not found any eggs in the last 2 days. I am hoping Heidi doesn't find any either on her girls. Sydney and Josh and I seem to be fine. I hope we all stay that way.

Other fun things, we got denied insurance coverage for Emily's sensory therapy, but I got it back after about 6 weeks by using a new script with a different code, one that tags her as having Aspberger's syndrome. I am thrilled we can go back for the last few weeks we are here, although I am happier to report that my child has worn jeans 3 times this school year od her own free will, and 1 without any extra therapy from me! Woohoo! Major progress!

Sydney and Emily finished Little League. They stuck it out, and I am proud of them. They got trophies, and they are proud too. We may not be ball people, but Emily did get 2 runs in the season, and I think 4 total hits. Sydney at the end did quite well at bat. In the field she got better at the end, but had a habit of biting her nails and searching the ground for interesting plants.

We have started calling Sydney "Magpie" since you never know now what she will collect. The other night I could not find my phone. Karl found it under her pillow. I left it in her room at bedtime, so she popped it under her pillow. a good friend sent her a pair of cargo pants, and when she saw them, she looked at the pockets and said "wow! Mom, I could put a lot of things in my pockets!" She makes me laugh. I ratted her out at the parent Teacher Conference this week, letting her teacher know she can read. He He. Now she will have a little more challenging work to do. Crazy girl. Emily is doing wonderfully well in school and I will miss her teacher. She is awesome and the perfect fit for Emily.

A funny comment. The girls were watching Qubo, and an ad for some sort of Ab Excercise Gadget came on that promised to tone and shrink your midsection in a matter of days. Emily watched it, and turned to me and said, "Wow Mom, you could really use that! " So true! Thank you so much, I thought.

And Josh has taken his first few steps. He does it best when he is not paying attention to the moving part and just in pursuit of something. He is much more interested in the home than I remember the girls being. He loves to empty cabinets, dump spices, unstack cans, sit in pots, unroll toilet paper and dump anything he can find into the toilet. He also likes batteries. And wheels. And licking the floor. His best words are "Dis" and "Dat".

Well, we are off to decide our future! Keep you all posted!