So yesterday marked the end of my old life and another beginning of a new life.  I have been talking a lot of new beginnings and changes but now it's been said by my lovely, wonderful surgeon.  I really couldn't imagine going anywhere else but to Mayo for all of this.  God really has been looking out for me and it took this last episode to actually open my eyes and see it.  With the end of this chapter in my life also begins a new year of my marriage.  On Labor Day it will mark 8 years.  It's been a wild ride and the last six months has been the scariest, invigorating, freeing and depressing time in my life.  I still get pretty emotional and I think it's even worse now that everything is finally done and I have just one more appointment with my OB there and I'm done with checkups for six months.  At the OB appointment we are going to decide how to best handle my cysts on my ovaries.  My surgeon made a point of telling me that they are clean and clear now. 

Our life has gotten a little bit more busy.  I joined a Women's group at church and so we had our first meeting a few days ago.  It is great group of women and it should be a great thing.  Tonight we have our first Neighborhood Group meeting.  I've never done anything like that before but I know that one of the girls from my women's group will be there.  Like I said it's a new chapter in my life and now things are starting to feel right.  I just hope that I'm still going to want to move when the time comes.  I have been talking to "The Hubby" about giving back to Mayo, whether it's by working there or by volunteering.  It really seems like a great place to be even though it was starting to get old being the patient.  Now that we're getting more involved in church and with "N" being in school it just seems right.  One of my oldest friends moved out here now and we've been really able to catch up and just let everything go.  If only we could get a family member or two to move here then I don't think I would move and I really would like to live here and become more involved in the community.

Yesterday afternoon my friend and I went out to coffee with the kids and it was a little stressful but it was a nice break from being at home.  I'm starting to not spend as much time at home, I have to work on being more confident in myself and I think to do that I have to make these positive changes in our lives.

"O" is now hooked on puzzles.  She can do 24 piece puzzles in under 10 minutes.  So now minus the one she broke in May, she has six cool puzzles.  I just bought her a few more on the way home from dropping "N" off at school and she's already done them.  I would start letting her use the 70 piece puzzles but I'm afraid she'd get too frustrated with it.  "N" is now getting into Legos, I guess we'll see considering we bought him Magnetix and now he doesn't even play with them anymore.  Plus with this move happening I don't want to keep buying stuff that will just sit in a box anyway.

I'm still trying to get used to how things are working now.  "N's" schedule, playing with the kids, trying to make individual time with each kid, time to hang out with "The Hubby" and all the fun things that life throws at you.  I really need to find the want to actually work.  I'm pretty much over the surgeries now and so now it's just trying to break out and doing something now.  I have to start making time to work on Kids Eat For and find stuff to review.  I don't use a whole lot anymore so now I find it difficult to do since that's really all I'm known for.  Well,  I guess I should get away from the computer since the kids are sleeping and I still have to clean the crappy kitchen, bathrooms and try and wait for 7pm so I can start doing laundry (really it'll be well after that since we have neighborhood group tonight).