Three things

First, I have some business to take care of.  I forgot to add these words to the Master List of Words Max Can Say:

Bubbles
Hi
Sheshe (fishie)
Book
Hat
Ni Hao (learned from watching Ni Hao Kai Lan)
Emmo World (Elmo's world)

He's adding words to his vocabulary almost every hour at this point.

*Note: I realize it seems he knows the name for A LOT of TV shows. We don't watch THAT much TV, it's just that we watch the same shows a lot.

Second, I'm sorry that my posts have been so dry and boring lately. I know my writing has sucked recently and I hope when we can get our family on a reliable routine, I can carve out some "me time" during which I plan to blog better and more often.

Third, an update: John's off to his third day of training at his new job and so far he's happy going to work. Which is in stark contrast to his last job where he'd get all gray and grumpy and I'd have to literally SHOVE him out the door while he dragged his feet saying "I don't want to go! Ugh, do I really have to? Don't make me go!" Then, as soon as he got to work, I'd get a Skype text from him "I WANT TO COME HOME!".  I realize he's still in training, and next week, when he's actually DOING the job may bring on a different going to work attitude, but overall, we're really excited and hopeful about the career change.  I know he's going to kick ass at this job and get promoted like crazy.  I've forbade him to talk about money, he's really worried about how we'll live on his new, much lower, income.  But as far as I'm concerned it will work out becasue it HAS to work out.  I'm not going to allow myself to worry about the house in Utah not selling until we run out of money to pay the mortgage (probably around the first of the year). 

This summer, when we realized that we wanted to make a significant life change in the hopes of making our family happier, we knew it would be hard.  We knew we'd have to make sacrifices.  We knew there would be risks.  The easy part was leaving our old life.  We were done with it.  We were sick of it.  We were ready and excited for the changes ahead.  Now is the hard part.  Now we have to rebuild our life from scratch.  This is really hard and there are still so many unknowns. But, the good news is, we're already MUCH happier.