This is going to be a great year! I can just feel it. Our nanny was helping a friend look for work and, based upon what she found, decided that she needed a raise. She also decided that the best time to tell me this was right in the middle of my workday and via text message. Ugh. I simply could NOT focus the rest of the day and by the time she came to drop off the kids, I was ready to just tell her to look somewhere else. But, we talked. We REALLY like her and didn't want to look somewhere else. When it came down to it, she wanted $30 more per week. I told her that we didn't have a problem with a little extra but that I didn't want to have this conversation in another three months and that she cannot tell me stuff like this via text message and in the middle of my work day, again. I have been on the low-income side of life and I know that $30 means a lot to her...and not a big deal to us. But, geez, her timing and method need help!

Work has been going extremely well. My boss asked me if I was interested in ownership of the small one-off projects that are always coming up with our clients. I don't have any desire to be a project manager, but she assured me that my role in "managing" would be very very limited and I'd mostly just be working within my own team. So, I said I'd do it. It will be good because it should keep me home. There is no reason to travel to do small projects like this! I asked her at the end of the year if she could please keep me in mind for any work that would keep me home as long as possible with the baby and toddler. This really fits my skill set and interest, too. Yay for win-win situations!

On the house front, we found a house. I just fired my fourth realtor yesterday. I'm sorry, but "I've been so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to even acknowledge that I received your e-mail three days ago and now my servers are crashed" in THIS housing market and during THIS time of year AND when you can reply on your mobile phone is pure bullish!t. We were so excited about this house that I found all by myself and we finally got to see it today with a guy I called up yesterday evening. Hubby and I were instantly in love...for totally opposite reasons. The only bad part is that we are 60 days out from being able to close because of our lease. Hopefully, the owners will be okay with that. And mortgage rates are 3.75%!!! Geez, I won't be paying that loan off a day early. I can't believe how low they are.

Sadly, I am down to nursing the baby just at night and in the mornings. I just can't give it up completely, yet. Not sure when I'll totally wean him. On one hand it is nice to be able to wear regular clothes, again. And on the other, I miss the sweetness/bonding of a nursing infant.

That is all for now (as if that wasn't enough).