Dearest Diary

Whew - things have gotten crazy busy lately! Last week I was completely down with being sick. It was no fun trying to take care of a household, your family & puppies while you cannot breathe and it feels like someone has punched you between the eyes. That sickness kicked my butt for almost seven days. I am so glad to finally be feeling mostly back to normal!

The puppies are doing great! They have almost tripled their size since we got them last month. They are doing much better with potty training and they  can last twice as long until they need to go out as they did before. Their chewing has gone up a couple of notches. If they see it they WILL try and chew on it. Doesn't matter what it is. That alone has taught me more than one lesson. I am pretty sure that their energy level has doubled in the past few weeks as well. One good walk used to tire them out. Now we have a couple and they still seem to find energy while I am the one wanting to take a nap.

Volleyball season has officially started in our household. We have either practice or a game every day during the week for the next month and a half. As excited as I am for our daughter to be involved in volleyball - it is surely changing up our schedule for awhile. One of the biggest is dinner time.

To most people it is just dinner time. But to us it is our family time. No phones or other electronic devices are allowed. Unless of course its like pizza/movie night. We stick to this every night during the week unless if at all possible. In saying this - practice unfortunately is cutting into that time for cooking & dinner time. So my new obstacle is to find enough dinners for the next month and a half that I am able to have cooked or cooking while I am gone picking her up from practice and ready to eat shortly after we get home.

I have the easy ones like hamburger, spaghetti, various pastas, breakfast & tacos on my list already. But I am hoping to find other ones that are a little more unique as well. Maybe if I find the time I can list out what we end up putting together to help you and your busy schedules out!

Well... time to go work on dinner for tonight. We are having something very simple that also happens to be a family favorite - hamburgers & potatoes. This week I think I am going to spice it up and add some grilled onions and bacon. Mmmmmm....

Well if you are still reading.. I'll leave ya with some funnies.