Happy Birthday! ...and in Limbo

Today is Dave's birthday. He's getting to be an old man now...hehehe...but I shouldn't speak to much because I'm older. We took the kids with us for a birthday late lunch at La Hacienda (yummy!). Not much else is planned because it's Monday and Dave has school tomorrow, but I hope he had a great day. Happy Birthday Dave!
We are now in limbo for our move. Our manager told us this morning that the former tenants of our new apartment are not out yet, they will be tomorrow. But that puts everything else behind and so we probably won't get to move in until middle of next week...which means we only get 1 day to move out. She said she may find a way to work around the dates so that we may have an extra day, but with Dave not getting home from work until after 9am and being in school until 5pm, leaving me with 2 active toddlers that don't let me get much done, an extra day does not help much, but it's better than nothing I guess.
Dave applied to 4 pharmacy schools for the fall. Two of them have already sent the "We're sorry..." letters. Those 2 schools were the only 2 that would keep us here in California, so now we will definately be moving out of state is Dave is accepted this year. Today, we received a birthday card for Dave from the school in Georgia. We thought that was interesting. Dave showed me the card and said, "Is this good news?" Keeping our fingers crossed.
Please keep us in your prayers that the best situation for us will happen, whatever it is that Heavenly Father has planned =)

Digital TV update

Some of you might remember this post from almost a year ago complaining about digital tv. I thought it would be appropriate to give a little update on that front.

It seems that, when it comes to digital tv antennae, you really do get what you pay for. At the time of the first post, I bought the cheapest, $10 antenna @ Wal-mart. It looked to be standard bunny ears with a knob to fine tune. Even in the summer on days w/o wind we would still get pixelation and a crappy digital signal. We constantly had to adjust the knob and recently, after the kids started bending and breaking the ears, to get the best reception you would lose one channel entirely but to get that one channel, the reception on the other channels would be horrendous. We finally decided to get a new antennae since the kids were destroying it. At Wal-mart we saw an antenna that had no bunny ear, just a flat disk that you rotate to fine tune it. then we saw a flat rectangle that said it had 360degree reception so no fine tuning necessary. BINGO! both of these were more expensive but we went with the rectangle. We plug it in and rescan and we gain 3 more channels we didn't have (granted they are the SD counterpart to the HD channels we already got, but still... its the principle of the matter) And the best part is...there has been little to none pixelating/bad recption on any channel! SCORE! so when it comes to DTV antennae, you definately get what you pay for.

One Of The Best Pieces Of Advice

...I got when I first became a mom. My aunt told me to let my baby's will become my own, then my will would become my baby's.
Schedules sometimes just won't work. One of the biggest lessons you learn as a mom...Sacrifice. Most of the time, we won't get what we want, our baby won't do what we want then to. When Jaron was a newborn, he would wake up for an hour at around 5am. Dave would get so frustrated. I did at first too. Then I thought about it. I could stay frustrated and look back on this as a horrible experience, or I could make it memorable. So I decided I would put a Kenneth Cope CD on and sing to Jaron until he fell back to sleep. Just the other day I remembered this experience. I really do look back at it fondly. It was a great experience and I don't remember how frustrated I was. I remember it as wonderful moments I had with my son.