After downing massive amounts of Claritan, I feel like a new woman! My allergies here just keep getting worse. What a joy! The great thing is, we won’t be stationed here forever. Someday we’ll be sent to exotic places like Iceland or Milwaukee and I can work on becoming allergic to those places. Such is life.

Jonas is starting school next week! He will be in preschool four days a week all afternoon, and speech will be starting up again for two mornings a week. I couldn’t be happier for him or for myself! The poor guy is bored to tears, and he gets curiously destructive when he’s bored. “What will happen if I swing from the curtains?” “How high can I fling a bowl of pasta?” I am eager for him to start performing these experiments somewhere other than my house.

Of course, I am totally stoked to be getting the afternoon to myself! Maggie still naps in the afternoons, and since her big brother won’t be around to poke her in the cheek and tell her to wake up, she may actually get some rest, and I may actually be able to spend quality, uninterrupted time scrubbing my floor or creating in my scrapbook room!

So, in short, I’m scrapping like crazy, and looking so forward to the crazy holiday seasons and to Jonas being able to spread his wings and explore the world. He is so ready. I’m so ready.