The Update :)

I have a whole new respect for single parents. Especially those who don't get to live next to their all-too-helpful sisters and mothers. :) I have been thinking about updating my blog, but whenever I had time, I was lacking brain power and vice versa.

THE LATEST:

* Kyle drove with us back to ARizona. (Who am I kidding? - he actually DROVE the entire way because his wife is slightly stay-awake-at-the-wheel impaired and his 6-week-old son was stay-in-the-carseat-without-crying-for-food impaired. It was a LONG 25 hours). We landed at my parents' house and it only took about four hours for us to realize that staying with them was definitely NOT going to be a long-term solution to our ARizona time. We started a hunt for homes. We looked at exactly one house before we rented it. I guess we're not really bargain hunters. Also, the house was fine, the price was as low as they get, and it was only 2 blocks from my mom and about 6 blocks from my sister. Closer is better when I'm on my own. Kyle left back to Mexico, driving with our friend Jimmy, about 36 hours later. Bummer.

He arrived in Mexico on Sunday night. School started back for him on Wednesday, then was pushed to Thursday, finally pushed to Friday. He showed up at school long enough for him to take the two finals that completed his 8th semester classes - and also long enough for the governor of Jalisco to hold a press conference closing all of the states schools and universities due to three swine flu deaths in the last 24 hours. I love facebook because I saw the news in someone's status, checked the Guadalajara Reporter to confirm it was true, and had already checked plane tickets before Kyle even called me. He was on the plane the next morning at 7:00 am, and in Arizona by 8:00 our time. We had an entire week together - even more peaceful because my father-in-law took the three older kids to his cabin with him. It was a STRANGE week, for sure.

He returned to MX on Sunday the 17th, just in time to find out that the school had cancelled his final rotations at the hospital due to the swine flu. He just had to turn in his paperwork and he was officially done with medical school. WOOHOO! He could have come right home except for the fact that the school has to have a valid visa on file prior to graduation and this is a little something we'd been putting off. So, he is still in Mexico trying to get the visa sorted out just in time to cancel it and come back home - but whatever.

* Guthrie never did get registered in school. The elementary school right here in the neighborhood was adamant that they get his records from the school in Mexico prior to letting him start. The whole swine flue closing of the school made that a nightmare, so it just never happened. The charter school would have let him start, but their first grade classes were completely full. The poor kid has just been stuck at home the last few weeks - but whatchagonna do?

* Adeline started (And will be finishing this week) Pre-K at a cute little home preschool run by a gal in our ward. She loves it. It's only two days a week for three hours, a drastic difference from her school in MExico, but she's probably learning more in those three hours that she did in the whole week down there, so we'll take the little bit we can get. I registered both kids for school at the charter school in town. I am greatly looking forward to a five-minute drive to/from school versus last year's 30-minute drive each way.

* Sullivan is just chillin' with me and Truman. He likes to tell everyone his nicknames (Trumanski, Tapatio, Tru Tru Train, etc.) He also likes to punch him; "I punch him soft, mommy," followed by a slow-mo punch. Kinda funny.

* Truman is super sweet, fat, and smiley. He actually LIKES HIS PACIFIER!!! YAY! I think it took a lot of work to make it happen, but now my mom, Ash, and I can all get him to sleep with the paci instead of nursing.

* I had been working my two different jobs for the first few weeks we were here. After semi-coming unglued last week, I had to give notice to the one job. Since I was only doing overflow for the other, my stress level has been reduced significantly. I'll be picking up more work now in the near future, but am hoping that with Kyle here for the next month it won't be so bad.

Arizona is HOT, as always, but I really like being back in the states. I miss my Don Miguelon Tacos :( and my husband (not in that order), but someday we'll go back to visit. Maybe. If I'm ready.