way behind... again

no matter what i do i cannot stay on top of the blog these days. i need to come up with a better strategy now that my time is completely eaten up by commuting, work, and general mom-ness. i'll think of something. there's too much going on to NOT post here :) so here's the crazy world of us: quentin's christening it went very well. he was not thrilled about sitting quiet and still in church following the actual baptism so mommy and daddy had to pace around the church to keep him quiet. by the end i had to take him outside because he wasn't even pacified by the pacing. he screamed through amazing grace, the final hymn. even though we weren't in there, everyone could here him. oops. he looked so cute in his special gown and almost everyone commented on how neat it was. i now want to take it to have his name and christening date embroidered on the inside slip, hopefully a starting a tradition for every baby who wears it going forward. sick sick sick we got our first daycare bug. quentin has had (a lot of) runny poop since saturday morning. fortunately he is acting totally fine otherwise. we thought it may have been a reaction because we tried barley cereal for the first time last thursday. then, unfortunately, jeremy was up all saturday night before the baptism throwing up every 45 minutes. he continued to be sick all day on sunday and even had to ensure he had planned an emergency route out of the church should it be necessary. at first we thought he might have had food poisoning from some fish he had eaten on saturday night, but when we got home late sunday night from the baptism i too was sick, so we knew it was a bug. since then everyone we were in contact with on sunday seems to have gotten it. fortunately it's a pretty quick moving bug. cancer hound abby went to the vet on tuesday for her 5th chemo treatment (out of 8 in the protocol.) unfortunately, she was very sick on tuesday (rejected her dinner, reluctantly ate it, and then threw it right back up) so they didn't do the chemo. the really bad news is that she has another tumor. they biopsied it and it's definitely another mast cell tumor which means the chemo is not working and the cancer has definitively spread. we could have this tumor surgically removed and then start an even more intense and painful chemo protocol, but we think we're done. she's not looking so good and we feel like another surgery and more chemo would just be torture. it's time to let our big bear go. :( job yesterday i got confirmation that my job is for real, and is not just a temporary role. woo hoo. another step towards financial stability. and no power suit shopping!!! extremely delayed monday real estate update we had 3 showings last week. still rocking the showings! and the absolute best news... we got an offer on the house!!!!!!!!!!!!! they low-balled us and also asked us to pay their closing costs and points. and buy them a home warranty. oh and it is contingent on them selling their house. not a great offer but it's something. at this point we aren't going to get a good offer. hell, any offer is a good offer at this point. we prepared a counter offer last night and we're just waiting to hear back. we added a clause into the counter offer that allows us to keep the house on the market while we wait for them to sell theirs. if we get another offer from someone else, these people would have 72 hours to secure financing no matter what is going on with their house, or their contract is null and we can accept the 2nd offer. fingers crossed!!!!