Jo's Boys

Hi Guys!

Thank you all so very much for your very, very sweet comments.

I actually had NO CLUE that people were still checking in here.  I certainly do not deserve to have anyone come by, since I never seem to update!  But I will try to be better about that.

But not right now!  For some reason, I am having a wicked time with my computer tonight.  This probably has something to do with the fact that Oldest has been playing all manner of online adventure games lately and everything I am typing seems to get messed up.  So I have to shut down the computer and start over.

Read any good books lately?  I have listened to two on CD (while in the car going from place to place) that were WONDERFUL. 

~  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

What a FABULOUS story.  I absolutely adore this genre- sort of like a lower key Angela's Ashes (which was also phenomenal).   I was truly depressed when the story ended and then I was even MORE depressed to hear that there was no sequel!!!!   

~ The Glass Castle by Jeanette something or other (I am so lazy tonight!).  Walls, maybe?  Anyway, it was a wonderful story but do be careful - there's a drunk father in the story and he uses some seriously foul language from time to time. 

There seems to be some debate as to how much of TGC is strictly autobiographic and how much might have been fictionalized but I don't care - it was a great story. 

Yes, I am still married...

I have to remind myself this over and over again sometimes. 

Okay!  Just in case anyone at all is still reading my blog (Bueller?  Bueller?) ~

I wanted to come on and post and say Hi, I'm still alive, etc.

Let's see... some stats are now in order:

• My husband has been gone for nine and a half months.  He got to come home last month and see us for two days.  This month he gets to come home and see us for three days.  He's already been told that he doesn't get to come home at all in August.
• The bottom fell right out of the housing market.   We've pretty much given up all hope of selling the house.  We're trying to regroup and see what our options are.  We don't have a lot of them.  For now, he's out there and we're out here and he pretty much never gets to see us.
• He missed our 10th wedding anniversary, my birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween and all federal holidays in between
• The children and I are just now starting to get back into the groove of homeschooling and such without him.  I think the absolute shock of having him gone has worn away a bit and now we're trying to transition from "trying to cope day by day" to "trying to bloom where we've been planted."  It's a subtle distinction, but I'm hopeful that we'll make it.
• I've now lost 63 pounds in the last two years, 40 of which have been since my husband left 9 1/2 months ago.  Go me!  Except that losing weight sucks royal.

I took this DARLING little online quiz, thanks to Jen Ig, who is just wonderful and fabulous and her blog is such a blessing (see sidebars), and I found out that my wonderful husband is, in fact, EXACTLY like Col. Brandon. 

Except that he didn't come into our marriage with a random love child.  Which is always a bonus. (And, you know, my copy of S&S is packed and I'm sitting here racking my brain trying to recall whether or not the book actually has the girl being Brandon's or not.)

But I have always adored the character of Col. Brandon and yes, he's just like my husband.  Quiet, kind and sort of unassuming yet very strong when circumstances demand.  Very, very into duty.  Yep, I'm married to Professor Snape (Whoops!  Wrong movie!) Col. Brandon.  :)

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You scored as Col. Brandon, Your husband/boyfriend is most like Col. Brandon of Sense & Sensibility!  He is very attuned to your tastes and enjoys sharing them with you.  While he resists being flashy, he is very generous, though he will never be overbearing, even if he is correct.  The two of you engage in many pursuits together and enjoy a romantic, steady relationship. Col. Brandon 90% Darcy 75% Edward Ferrars 65% Edmund Bertram 55% Tilney 30% Captain Wentworth 25% Knightley 25% Who is Your Jane Austen Boyfriend/Husband? created with QuizFarm.com

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