Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock

I know it's been quiet on the blog lately.  Seems like time is standing still.... tick, tock, tick, tock..... and I have only boring stuff to say......  except 66 days until we get on a plane!!!  That's exciting!  In the meantime, I'm on overload with new projects and hobbies and possibly switching some of KJ's curriculum, even though we're over a month into school already.  Here's what I'm up to right now:

• Homeschooling.
• Missing my work as a birth doula.
• Starting a business on Etsy --- sewing purses like crazy.
• Researching curriculum.  Ugh.
  
• Playing with my new camera lens and dreaming about going into business.
• Even better, becoming a birth photographer.  Is there such a thing?  If there is, that's what I want to be when I grow up.  If not, maybe I'll make it a thing.
  
• Trying to keep up with 2 community groups, 3 separate sports/lessons, CBC co-op, Awana, Reality, and church.
• Oh yeah, cooking and cleaning.  Blech.  And shopping.  Double blech.
  
• Teaching Tatum to sew.
• Imagining a similarly sized Ethiopian tagging along with Maci everywhere she goes.
  
• Dropping everything to spend every second with Justin when he can be home.
• Running.  Can't do the 5K I was planning on this weekend, due to some sort of hip injury.  Figures.
  
• Cuddling, laughing, and playing with my wonderful kiddos.
• As always, willing time to stand still so I can take in every second of this wonderful life I have been blessed with, even as I desperately wish for a fast forward button so that we can have Little E home with us.
• Thinking about a girls night out.  I think the last one I had was, well, never actually.
  
• Sadly noticing a chill in the air and a few yellow leaves on the trees.
• Trying to remember something from my two years of French class and anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Amharic language book I ordered.
• Hoping for new pics of Little E.