Another Month Gone By

Seems like time is moving in a weird way for our little family while we are trying to get to the next step and are stalled out in this basement. We both have started to hate talking to other people about what we are waiting on and trying to do to get a move on with life. Luckily, Claire is still enjoying life in a big house that she can terrorize and explore so we stay and try not to be impatient.

Projects

Another thing I'm trying to do while living here is be productive! It has been a long time working an hour or two a day on the storage room of my in-laws, but I am so proud of how awesome and organized it looks! Whenever my mother-in-law goes in there she has to look around to find what she is looking for, but that effect will fade in time. Now there are like things next to each other and the floor is clear of all the random stuff we used to have to step around or over. If it was my own storage room, there would probably be even more things cleaned out, but I don't want to over stay my welcome by throwing out what others find useful. It was actually quite fun cleaning and organizing, but the project is over and now I'm looking for more to do when Claire is down for her naps.

Claire

Speaking of our little sunshine...she is still as cute as ever! Sometimes she is a butt about what foods she will eat and if she doesn't like it she will throw it on the floor, but she eats things from most food groups. I don't know if she is my daughter though because she doesn't like carrots but can eat a full serving of peas...weird child. I recently found this picture of her first meals with baby food and it seems so long ago that she would even eat the stuff! Amazing how time flys. She loves when music is playing so we are searching for movies and TV series that have music she can dance to when she is bored. I think she is getting bored of some of the things down stairs when they are already spread out, but if I have cleaned up and put toys away, her favorite thing is to spread them as far and wide as she can.

Reading

Still going strong on reading the Book of Mormon and reading my 3 chapters a day has put me a little ahead since the calculations I did said you only need 2.66 chapters a day. Hopefully I'll finish before Christmas...or really before the craziness of my brothers wedding the weekend before New Years and get to take some days off. Honestly I don't care about taking days off though because it has been such a delight to be reading so much again. I like getting to know the story again instead of reading segmented chapters as a family and have to try to remember what just happened the previous day. We are finishing up Jacob today for anyone keeping track!

P.S. Sorry I was bad at taking pictures this week...be prepared for our Halloween pictures next week though!! Very excited to share our costumes with you.