I recently made a startling discovery.  As I was out perusing the rarely explored corners of the internet I found a few things.  Some old cassette tapes, a couple of mismatched socks, an adaptor that doesn’t fit anything, and hey, what do you know?  Our blog!  It’s still here!  I expected as I typed in the web address that I might get some sort of error message, but wow.  It still works.

It has been a goal of mine to blog for a while.  It gets lost in things like, a child who is causing some troubles, or a piano lesson, or a Cub Scout meeting, or work, or a dozen other things.  So it is my goal to write each day this month.
Strike that.
It is not my goal to write each day this month.  I’ve found that if I make a goal, and I fail that goal in some way, I’ll give up.  So if I make it a goal and miss a couple of days, I’ll just stop.   Or if I make it a goal and post at 12:03 am (thereby not actually posting on that particular day), I’ll just stop.  That doesn’t make sense, I know, but… wow.  That really doesn’t make sense.  But rather than make a goal, let’s say I’ll write more often.  All I have to do to accomplish that is repeat this process sometime before next May.

So life has moved on in the Nelson household.  Some big changes.  Three pretty big changes.

Change 1:
We have a visitor living with us.  Valya the Belarussian.  She lives in our basement.  She washes our dishes.  Sometimes she watches the children while We The Parents go Outside The House Without Children.  It’s great.  I hope she stays a long long time.

Change 2:
We (that is not We The Parents but We The Some Of Us Whom We Will Refer To As The Collective Whole) started kindergarten!  Benny and Nate both started kindergarten.  “How is it?”,  everyone asks.  “How are the boys doing in kindergarten?” The answer is: They both love it.  One is doing excellent, and one is doing… as we expected.   We get lots of phone calls from the school to tell us how one of them is doing.  We’ve mentioned this before, in other posts, like all of them.  So it is as expected.  Learning lots and having fun doing it.  And drawing others into our lives. One. Teacher. At. A. Time.

Change 3:
New house.  Yay!  We hadn’t expected to move.  We had no plans to ever ever ever move again in our lives, but then someone decided we should buy their house.  We looked at it and decided it cost too much, but they insisted we buy it.  So we put our house on the market.  And, shockingly, it sold.  Everything worked out.  It was amazing.  So we moved into a nice house, that is much larger, and has more land.  One of us had lots of trouble adjusting to it.  (Sometimes taking 5 minutes to find the bathroom… but we got that down) (It’s not that big).  We moved in late September, and after about a month and a half, it began to feel like we were moved in.  That was the point it felt like we could start to relax from getting things out of boxes.  We aren’t perfectly there yet.  We still have a few stray  boxes lying about, and not really any pictures on the wall.  And that playset looks pretty sad out in the back yard.  But we’re in the house.

So that is the very uttermost basics of what has been going on over the past few months.  I didn’t get a video made for our two year anniversary of the boys joining the family, but we were in the middle of our move.  It was my goal, but I didn’t get done before the anniversary date, so I gave up.

Here are some pictures from over the last weekend.  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner in our new house and decorated for Christmas.  Oh, and before I go, keep in mind that just because I haven’t blogged, doesn’t mean I haven’t been around.  I post on twitter (@erphed) (that’s different from last time) and Facebook, and Streamzoo (@capedan),and we are both (We The Parents) are both on Instagram (@erphed and @pharmacist39).  So here. are some pics for you!

The first day of school. That would have been a good blog post.

Moving out of the old house. Probably would have been a good blog post, too.

Benny's birthday. Hmm. That could have been a nice post, too.

The carving of the pumpkins. Mostly done by children. Minimal injuries.

Decorating for Christmas

Our Christmas Tree