How long has it been?

I haven't blogged in well over a year. Lately I've been reading some blogs, both friends and strangers. Some of them, like CakeWrecks, have me laughing so hard I cry. Some, like Sweet Baby James, make me realize that blogging can record precious memories.
So since the last time I blogged, Hannah has:

• turned 2
• been diagnosed with a life-threatening allergy to cashews and other tree nuts
• had tubes in her ears
• become a big sister
• planned her 3rd birthday party, which is less than 2 weeks away

I have:

• fallen in love with teaching first grade
• gotten pregnant (that was with baby #2 - it's been a really long time since I posted anything - I'm NOT pregnant with #3)
  
• given birth to another beautiful baby girl, Lily Marie
• recognized even more blessings in my life

One unexpected journey our family has been on is DH's firefighting schooling and EMT training, leading to his search for a fire fighting job. This was all the result of an unexpected layoff due to the "economy," but we know it is a blessing in disguise. He has discovered his passion and purpose, and we have learned to be much more satisfied with much less.

My current goals are:

1. balancing a full-time job with 2 kids
2. De-cluttering
3. training for a half-marathon
4. losing the rest of my baby weight
5. possibly becoming more "green"

So I intended to go to bed early tonight, but that will not happen. Time for me to count my blessings and get to sleep

My blessings:

1. Toby
2. Hannah
3. Lily
4. My job
5. My home
6. My friends
7. The great doctors we've had in the past year
8. My parents, brother, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmother, and in-laws
9. That Hannah won't tee-tee in her bed, she'll only tee-tee in the potty (that's what she told me on her way to bed tonight.)
10. That Lily is "talking OF a storm" as her big sister puts it
11. And that somehow Lily already seems to be getting a couple of teeth and hasn't complained about it at all (so no one can see these teeth except me, but I swear they are there)