One Hot Week

Yay! What a stinkin' HOT week it's been so far! I'm pretty sure Monday dragged on for a long time because of the heat. It also didn't help that my baby didn't want to sleep in his car seat. After many errands, we were finally able to make it to the Lego Discovery Center. The kids played for hours and then they got to pick out their Lego set for swimming across the pool without floaties.

Our second son is still overcoming his anxieties about swimming without floaties, but my husband is good at encouraging him to try hard things. It might seem cruel to some that we force him to do this thing, but if he was ever pushed in or happened to fall into someone's pool unprepared, we like to know that he'd have some sort of idea of what to do to survive it. He is definitely satisfied with doggy paddling right now, and we hope to one day work on stokes. He did go off of the diving board at a public pool and had a blast doing that. So there is happiness in swimming for him. Our daughter, who is younger, has also learned to swim across the pool. Her form is a little different since she doesn't mind putting her head under water to swim. When she uses her arms, she almost takes long strokes and kicks pretty strong. She may or may not take a breath when she lifts her head out of water, which can be a scary moment for her. She, therefore, prefers floaties as well at this moment. Our baby is loving the pool right now. He splashes and laughs, except when being splashed. I'm pretty sure he enjoys it because the water is no longer freezing.

Other than that, we are listing our home for sale this week and are trying not to be crazy as we are getting ready for photos and showings. Anyone need stuff? We've got plenty of it! We feel almost embarrassed to leave our beautiful home with an amazing backyard, which is why we jumped at the opportunity to buy it, but a new job opportunity that would better prepare us for the future is at our door and we are signing up. A few of the benefits would be more family time with dad on a regular basis, opportunities to earn more money without sacrificing more family time than he currently does. Seriously, he's gone for 11 hours each workday whether he is working 4 tens or 8-5 for the week. Yes, I know lots of people have worse working scenarios, but we all get to choose what we do with our lives and personally, we don't want our kid's childhood gone before dad can really spend time with them. So, our fork in the road is taking us out of state to New Mexico. My husband will be selling health and life insurance and any prayers or good thoughts offered in our behalf will be accepted with gratitude. We've already met many of the people he will be working with and they are all kind and helpful. Seriously, this agency is going to be amazing to work with. They all happen to be from the valley as well, so they know exactly what we are going through as we get this started. Here's to a new adventure!