Breather

It's been 2 months since my last blog post. Before that, there was another month break... so it's been about 3 months since I've been on here. Life has just been busy. I literally have been working on taxes or bookkeeping during pretty much every nap time or at bedtime. If I wasn't, then I was either playing catch up on house stuff, cleaning, etc. I'm tired. I think I did about 16 tax returns the last two months, including two company returns. The rest were individuals along with some CA state filings. While that may not seem like a lot at all, it is a lot when I am doing it during nap times OR at least it felt like it! It may have felt like it because 4 of those were in the last week before the deadline. Getting those 4 done in a few days while Ms. Priss was sleeping wasn't easy. I told Colt that there was a reason I quit my job! Next year, I just have to learn to say no during that last week or two! 

Now that that is over, I am hoping to have a little more fun in my breaks and get caught up on stuff that I want to get caught up on... along with starting to purge our house a little and get rid of stuff before our move. We (or really Kinley and I) move in just a month to Tyler. Colt will be coming behind us a month later. We close on our house in Tyler on May 3rd. Since that's just a week away, Colt and I actually spent yesterday setting up all our utilities. It seems like it came fast! The movers are coming to start our actual move on May 22nd. That's when Kinley and I will become residents of Tyler. The closing for the house here isn't until June 12th.  Colt finishes his last shift here in Temple on June 24th. Talk about a lot of dates! Since the house will be empty after May 22nd, Colt (and Josh too) will be staying with James for a month. We are moving that week in May because Colt happens to have a week of vacation that month. With his schedule, moving in June wouldn't have really worked out. I'll come back here to close on the house on June 12th, which happens to be Kinley's 2nd birthday. She has her 2 year appointment that day as well. Yep, she is going to have to get shots on her birthday. Depending on what time we close on the house, I'm going to try to at least bring cupcakes and let her go to the gym or to the park and play with her friends that day. Colt is working both the weekend before and after her actual birthday. Since we'll be in different towns, there wasn't an ideal time to have her party.  We're going to have to have her party a couple weeks late once Colt is done with work for the month and in Tyler. Although her little friends her age from here won't be able to come to her party, it will be a shorter drive for our families. I'll also be coming back to Temple  again on July 17th for Colt's graduation.

I guess I thought things were going to slow down... but now that I type all that out, it doesn't seem like it's going to slow down any time soon!

Kinley turned 22 months back on April 12th. My next post, I'm going to do a little update on her and what all she's up to since it's been a while since I've done one. After that, I'm hoping to start being able to blog/scrapbook a little more than I have been. I'll be back all the way in November 2016 when I do that... just about 6 months behind!