Basketball season is upon us yet again.  Jacob started practice this week with a YMCA team.  Only a 5 week game season.  So, it should take us up into early Spring!  Yay!!! 

I don't like winter, so thankful that the last half of January has been little snow and milder temperatures.  Once again, hopefully we have made it through the roughest part of the winter.

All three of the boys are doing Cross Fit kids.  Joseph has been participating but they finally got a few more older boys so Benjamin and Jacob have been going.  I sure love to see them push themselves and struggle with finish a workout.  I think Benjamin really surprised himself with his capabilities.  I was asking the coach what her first impressions of the boys were.  She said Joseph is so aware of his space and body and he moves like a gymnast.  Jacob is very well rounded.  With Benjamin she said that most people think of athletes and quick and agile.  However, she said Benjamin is really strong.  I don't think he would ever get involved in the weight lifting side, but I think he would do very well.  They were doing an exercise recently where you had to turn sideways and throw a heavy ball across your body to your partner.  The coach commented that Benjamin has a perfect golf swing!  Now, there is a sport a never considered for any of the boys, probably because it has never been anything I have done, other than very random, once every 8 year outings.

I am still plugging away on my work from home stuff.  Every week, I think they are going to cut us off, but they don't.  Hard not to make hay when the sun is shining.  Last year we took a 4 month break, between contracts, but they indicated to me that the break would probably be pretty short this time around!

We have been busy around the house!  We have all been to look at a house about 2 miles away and everyone really liked it.  It is a lot of what I have always hoped for.  It is a for sale by owner and has been on the market over 2 months, which is very weird for this area.a  Maybe the Lord has blinded others to the house until we discovered it.  We have not yet put an offer on it, but will be making some phone calls in the next 2 days to see what we can figure out.  We technically will qualify, but it always makes me nervous stretching things.  It is 3100 square feet, 4 bedroom with office and partially unfinished basement, 3 1/2 baths.  Perfect location for JRs work stuff and directly across the street from a park, with lots of football and soccer room.  Just exciting to think about the possibility.  By the end of the week, hopefully we will have some answers!  In the mean time, we are boxing up things and de-cluttering so that our house will be close to 'show ready'.

We recently finished up the 2nd quarter, so officially half way through the school year!  Hard to believe.  Pretty soon we will be planning Jacob's 11th birthday.  He has had a recently growth spurt, as has Joseph.  Joseph now comes up to my shoulders!!

Off to get some more done..just wanted to check back in!