Countdown to 40 and did I mention how much I love my new laptop?

It has been way too long since my last post!  Things have been busy here, and I have been having a blast with my new, "mid-life crisis" present.  It arrived last week, and is so awesome.   

I can now post from any room in the house and no longer have to share computer time with the kids.  Yesterday, I browsed the web while DH used the desktop.  I pinged him a flirty IM and he ignored it.  Or so I thought….he just didn’t know how to ping me back.  Married flirting is pathetic at times! 

With my brand new, shining laptop I can even sit outside and post.  Not that I have done that or anything, but I can if I want.  It will be a nice option this spring and summer while the kids play outside.  I love being mobile, no longer chained to the computer table.  Now I just have to get the digital photo stuff wired to it, and I can post more exciting pictures of my kids!  Oh, and those before and after pics of the house, since the work is complete, will be posted soon…having gone several thousand dollars over budget.   But what is a few  g’s here and there.  Ugh!

In other news this week, my FIL is waiting on the results from a US of his heart.  He has a pace maker, has had 5 bypass surgery 15 years ago, and has been having some abnormal heart beats.  I am hoping all is well, and they will just have to adjust his meds a bit.  He is so dear to us, and my kids adore him, so I pray he can have some relief soon from the arrhythmia’s.

My birthday is Wednesday, but given the fact that this week is pure chaos, we opted to go out to dinner OOT with all the kids this past Friday.  We went to Red Lobster and stuffed ourselves.   Bill and I had several people come up to the table and tell us we were brave, and that we had a beautiful family.  Bill drank 7&7, and I had a big, ice cold mug of beer.   We had so much fun talking together and watching the kids.  I asked Bill if, given the fact that we are not practicing birth control, if he would be upset if we got pregnant, and he said "No way.  It is already chaotic here, what difference would adding one more to the mix make?"  The way he said it was hilarious, sort of like, "What’s one more among friends?"  Too funny.  Only problem would be changing my blog name to "and baby makes 7"  Or it could be "and baby makes 6…7….8 and so on".  Or maybe "40 and still popping them out" as one friend stated.   Will have to give it some thought.  Also want to wait for my FIL to get his pace maker adjusted and his heart back in normal rhythm as a pregnancy announcement by us would give him a coronary for sure.  ‘

The countdown to being ‘fortysomething’ is down to t-minus 1 1/2 days.  Fabulous 40, here I come!!