It's all about sleep...

Okay, sorry for the barrage of posts this morning, but I'm really getting behind on my journaling and I'm sure there's someone out there just dying to know what's going on with our family. If not, don't tell me. It keeps me motivated just thinking there is. ;-)

Our biggest news is that we've decided not to put our home in Provo up for sale. I'm thrilled to report that instead, my fantastic cousin Ali and her hubby DJ will be renting it for a couple of years, and I couldn't be more pleased. I was really worried, to be honest, that some investor would swoop in, buy the house, and fill it with single students. Nothing against them personally, because I WAS one at one point in my life, but we have such fabulous family neighbors on our street, and it seems to be one of the final family holdouts in Provo near BYU, I just couldn't do that to them. And I couldn't choose better neighbors for Ali than the ones we have here, and I couldn't pick a better fit for this place than Ali and her cute family. I had also worried a lot about listing the home and then trying to keep it show-ready after Justin leaves for Saint Louis - all by myself for a month. I get the shivers just thinking about it. Now, all we have to do it live in the home, wait for the movers to pack us up, and hand over the keys. It's fantastic. That's the number one thing helping me sleep better at night.

The number two thing is the negative pregnancy test I took a few days ago. Yes, I was worried. Nay, terrified. Not because of any miscalculation of my own, but nobody believes me to this day that our sweet little Matt was not an "accident", but an honest to goodness "surprise". So irregularity, even post-partum, makes me incredibly sleepless. Enough said. 

Finally, the little shadows that were keeping me up at night before all this have resolved, as well. Audrey's sleeping in her own bed at night again, all night long. And Matt *drum roll* is getting consistent TEN hour stretches at night! Halleluja, and he's only three and a half months old! I just love that kid! The trauma and his crankiness seem to have ended when I finally quit nursing him, something I've struggled with since then a lot. It's not guilt, because he definitely has done better on formula. It's emotional, actually. After all the trauma I actually really miss it. Oh well, how can you argue with that sleep schedule?

So there you go. Everything you've wanted to know (and probably a little you didn't) about our family these days. We're doing great, thrilled with Justin's job and getting excited and teary all at the same time about our impending move back to Saint Louis. We can tell school's almost out because Justin has spring fever and senioritis, Audrey's all but grown out of her toddler bed and is in need of an upgrade, and our van might just make it to the end of the year but no further. It's time to move on. No news yet on the housing situation there, but hopefully that will be resolved in the next couple of weeks as well.

Thanks for reading! :-)