You can't imagine how CRAZY busy we are right now! The Collings family never does anything the easy way. I can honestly say life is never boring around here, I sometimes just need a little time to catch my breath.
So, we found a house that we really love, and decided we want to buy it. We will be closing on November 22nd, and moving on November 27-28th. We have spent the past two days packing and de-junking. We've lived in our house for 10 years, and I guess we accumulated a lot of things we don't need.
Steve Jr. is preparing for his mission. He has his mission farewell on November 21st, and will enter the MTC on December 8th. He will be going to Frankfurt Germany. We will have an open house after church onthe 21st (the day before we sign on our new house).
Steve Sr. has had a lot of success at work, they have had several sales presentations in other states, and have won the bid on several of them, which means he has to travel to these other states for start-ups. He basically will be gone one or two days a week for the rest of the year. He's the stake president in our area, so he is usually taking care of those responsibilities on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays each week, and sometimes on Tuesdays (if missionaries are leaving) and Saturdays.
I have a crazy school schedule. I'm in classes on Monday and Tuesday. I go to the hospital and "pre-load" on Wednesday. I spend Thursday in the hospital taking care of my patient, I'm gone 12 hours on Thursdays. Then Friday and Saturday is spent studying for tests and packing the house, and preparing my missionary, and studying my lesson for Sunday, and doing every other motherly thing I'm supposed to do.
Kaylea and Conner are the best! They are very patient with me when I'm working on my homework. They have helped so much with packing and cleaning, and are staying on top of their homework. Conner has started up basketball and has games every Tuesday and Thursday night. Wednesday is YM/YW for both of them, and Kaylea still runs, and dates, and works...
Now on top of each of our crazy schedules, we have Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Anniversary, and Christmas all coming up. I could be way stressed out.... or I could just go with the flow....I'm thinking I need to just go with the flow. Life won't always be this busy, and I appreciate everyone in my family for pulling their weight.
