I'm Back!

Okay, so I had abandoned my blog, thinking that perhaps it was pointless, since I was (I thought) the only one reading it! Well, by special request, I am back! Thanks, dear friend, for taking an interest in our life!
As a quick recap, the past month has been fairly uneventful, thankfully. Rebekah finished up her second set of riding lessons, Anna and Jonathan finished up their second set of gymnastics, and Elizabeth just about finished me (kidding, sort of). She's got more will than even I do. Our current battle is over her eye patch, which she is supposed to wear for two hours every day. We are on our second (or hopefully, third) box of patches. 20 to a box. Since September. Not good. She has an appointment with the optometrist tomorrow... Yikes!
No, seriously, things have been quite smooth. None of the kids have missed a day of school for sickness this winter, which is almost unfathomable, considering what their friends have been home sick with. I've been much better about going to the gym; three or four visits a week for the past four weeks! I've been going after work, which gets me home at about 10:15pm, but it's so much easier to just stay in the car after I leave work. That has been one distraction keeping me from my blog. A minor distraction, though.
The MAJOR distraction has been my family tree. I kind of go through spurts with it. I'll go full out with it for a month or so, and then leave it for about six months. All I need is a life event (someone to add or 'modify' on the tree) and I'm hooked again! I LOVE researching and digging. It's like a big huge puzzle to figure out. I can't remember exactly what got me back to it this time, but I'm in deep. I think I've added 300 people to it in the past three weeks. Yes, 300. It's bad.
We're on March Break this week. Today was great. My dad registered us for Pedals, Pipes and Pizza -- and event sponsored by the Royal College of Organists. Dad and I took my four kids, and Rob and Trevor came too. It was fun! The kids got to try the organ, go up to the gallery to look at the pipes and hear a presentation about how the organ works. Then there was a pizza lunch! Our kids were quite interested in it and I think Rebekah was quite taken with the sounds the organ could make. Neat experience. I can't find my camera right now, but I'll post some pictures when it materializes.
The only other thing that we've added to our life is a paper route. We are delivering our local newspaper, three days a week. The kids are quite excited about it, and even though we have 38 papers, with four kids running to houses, it takes about 20 minutes to complete.
So... that's what we're up to! If I think of anything else that needs to be added, I'll write about it!