success

have you been looking for us? we've been here. just hunkered down at the house like most people.
i am 99.9 % percent certain that our internet problems have been fixed. a big shout out to office specialists here in galesburg for figuring it out. long story short....the router that was installed, NOT BY ME, was assigned a static IP address and as most peoples internet service is...it has a dynamic IP address. so when the internet provider would change the IP address, as it does every 3 hours, the router would lose the connection because it didnt recognize the new IP address. the people who installed the router came out here multiple times and reset the router...it would work for 3 hours, but they would be long gone by then. they are out of davenport so they would have to schedule sometime to come back. it was a weekly thing. they blamed the internet provider, the internet signal was strong to the house, it was frustrating. i finally called in a third party, kinda "non-partisan"....and here we are today...4 days and no interruption of service!!
needless to say i have lots of backlogged pictures.....thanksgiving, nana's birthday, grandads birthday, christmas, new years, the move, fin's birthday, braden's birthday, lots of snow, etc. maybe i will just start new.

Most recently...Valentines Day. Did you all have a nice one? Ours was quiet, but nice. We enjoyed dinner out on Saturday and a lazy day on Sunday. Sean took Braden to 'Percy Jackson........The Lightening Thief' and finley napped, so i enjoyed 2 hours of quiet yesterday afternoon.

Today is Monday, the kids are off from school...they are still in bed. Why am i up you ask, who knows.

Thus, today will begin my 'a day in the life' of this stay at home (kinda) mom.....hold on to your hats!!

Here is one picture I can get to fast......this is our day to day dining room...right off the kitchen.