Lets see, we got a few inches of snow here and the town shut down. It’s cold and pretty and nice to have snow days and nowhere to be, especially since our car has no heat.

Unfortunately, last night & early this morning we had a major animal emergency. N had to leave work early and we all loaded up in the heatless car to rush a cat to the only ER vet in our town, at midnight. We dropped a huge chunk of change (that was supposed to be for our Arizona trip) to save our kitty, Gabby. Today we’ve been recovering and getting things done in preparation for our Arizona trip.

After three months of grumpiness, Tylenol, lack of sleep, and crying we’ve finally made some visible progress. This week Everly’s first TWO bottom teeth came in.

It’s both exciting and kind of sad. Our little girl is growing up so fast. She’s also sitting by herself now which is also crazy to think about. We really need to get on the baby proofing ASAP.

First we have our trip to Arizona though, then we’ll spend a week visiting and driving back home in our newly repaired Nissan (that has heat).

Literally the day we get back my students have their first performance. We are meeting them at the show site on our way back to Indiana. It’s gonna be a crazy-busy week for us and we aren’t to sure how E is going to handle it all. Hopefully she does well and enjoys all the travel.

There are a number of things I am NOT looking forward to with regards to the trip. Things like not being with my students the week before their first performance and much more. I’ve been trying to act like my anxieties and stresses don’t exist. Dwelling on them will only make it unnecessarily worse.

Instead I loose myself on Twitter and on Facebook with the mindless. I am cuddling with my perfect baby girl and watching lots of TV too. Soon we’ll be in the thick of it (trip wise) and I wont have anything to anticipate and stress over anymore.

Forward motion and we’ll be through this just like we’ve survived everything else! Right?

Oh, I’ll be blogging the drama from the road- like I always do! We’ve got some Starbucks money thanks to two very sweet friends and we’ll be getting our WiFi on each day so stay tuned!