The Jordans- Cherish, Sean, Autumn and Emelia

True to form, life never goes quite like I expect it to. This morning, Autumn told me her throat and head were hurting. I checked her temperature: 99.8. AH! Now the great debate whether to send her to school. I told her that after I ran, I would come up to the school and check on her. I drove over to the trail head, but I just could not justify (or come up with the energy) 11 miles. I called the doctor's office and got the girl an appointment to get her throat swabbed. I picked Autumn up and took her over to Iris. She tested negative for strep. Actually, once I got to the school, Autumn did not look quite so bad anymore. I took her back to school. I did some studying. Some writing. Some lawn mowing. Some cleaning of the backyard. The raccoon's left a mess for me to clean up on the back porch. I also attempted to clean out the pool, but man, that was more work than I was expecting. I'm kind of freaking out about this message I got from t...

Trying to get over the disappointment of your flight being changed. I hope to sleep well. I have a big run in the morning. I slowed myself down. Our Raccoon problem. I guess Autumn is going to Maine. This came in the mail addressed to Autumn. She took the map, unfolded it and studied it for a while. I wouldn't mind going back to Maine. Your current wife and favorite airman. XOXO 184 days

This is how grown ups do their homework. I've been studying and trying to just get a little ahead in my studies so that on Friday, when my world gets turned upside down, I can take some down time! I love you. I cannot wait to see you. Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo 183 days (and it is almost over!).

Shark mouth. This is exactly what was happening with me. I'm going to give this until the end of the week and if those baby teeth don't come out, I'm going to call the dentist. My dentist had to pull all but 3 of my baby teeth out because of my shark mouth. The thing is, they look pretty loose, but shouldn't they becoming out before the adult teeth pop up?? Max the fish gave me quite the scare this morning. "Cherish. I hate you." After I took the girls to school, I came back to Autumn's room to figure out what to do with him. I realized he was actually not dead, but still alive. School pictures. I don't think I'm buying this one. Autumn's looks pretty good, but again, I don't know if it is $14 worthy or not. I made pot roast for dinner and invited Alison over. She came bearing gifts. Millie was in a mood. I made her eat a piece of meat (which she wouldn't at first because it was brown. Like poop.) a...

Your Current wife and favorite airman. xoxo 181 Days.

I've been going through something the last few days. It's difficult to talk about. Actually, you are the only one I would feel comfortable talking to about it. But nonetheless, I feel sad. I feel like something has been lost. I don't know why I feel that way, but I do. I feel like I am shedding layers of myself and I'm not really sure what is left. I think it is a shame that people make it their mission in life to spread unkindness. To search someone out and tell them something hateful and not even explain themselves. But the thing is, that person has no significance in my life, so why let them take from me? Or you? What was meant to divide, did the opposite. I choose you. I would choose you a hundred times over. At the end of the day, First thing in the morning, When I'm happy, When I'm sad, When I'm hurting, When I'm alone, I choose you. I love you. Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo 181 Days.

After lecture today, Ingrid grabbed me and asked me if I would go and check on our fruit flies with her. I said, sure. Our Wild type fruit flies were all dead. I hypothesize that our Professor may have over anesthetized them. I checked in other people's experiments and they had little to no movement in their wild type vials too. Maybe they were just a bad batch altogether. Ingrid and I left to find Dr Schwarz. She wanted to bring the dead flies with us, but I said that he was probably eating and we should leave the flies there. I feel pretty comfortable saying that they were dead. We walk down to his office he wasn't there. I told her that I see him walk to the cafeteria after class. So we walk down there. I spot him sitting down eating and I ditch Ingrid. I tell Professor that I was terribly sorry to interrupt his lunch but our fruit flies were dead. Ingrid comes walking up behind me holding the dead flies, in the cafeteria. You brought the dea...

Millie's roughed up elbow from her wreck out yesterday. Autumn's got some pretty buff arms! After church this morning, the girls told me they wanted to go with me when I ran. I told them that would be fun. We did 4 miles together. They rode their bikes and I ran down to their school and back. I'm so proud of them. This morning Millie really gave me the creeps with her spider question. E: mom, I need a tank so that when my spider egg hatches, I have a place to keep my spider. What? I have this suspicion that Millie is going to do me in!!! I love you. Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo 161 days.

We spent so much of the day inside and it was so pleasant out this late afternoon. I decided we needed to get out of the house for a bit. I think the yard is looking quite nice. There are brown spots, but that is where the weeds are dying. I need to edge. The girls wanted to ride their bikes. I think you can see in this picture, if you look at the clouds, the weather front. Sweet Millie. Shortly after I took this photo, the girls were riding and Autumn passed Millie. As she was passing, a car was coming. Autumn zoomed back over in front of Millie and caused a big wreck. There was crying and bleeding, but only Millie was hurt. She basically had some road rash on her. I was angry with Autumn because not only did she pass in an unsafe manner, she nearly got hit by a car and then wrecked Millie out. I asked Millie what did she want to do. Go home? Or press on? She decided: She wanted to keep going. That girl is so tough. They wanted to go to the la...

The girls are so interested in my science experiments that I'm doing as much as I can to involve them with them. Guess what? This lab will require us to check on the fruit flies over weekends and in the evenings. You know what that means? I'll be taking girls with me to the lab!! This was some of our equipment for today. There is a vial in the back with a foam stopper on its top. I was so curious about this vial. I picked it up and smelled it. It had an odor to it, but I wasn't sure what it was. In front of that is the Fly Media. It consist of white potato flakes and blue dye. We have a jar of yeast (food for the fruit flies). Paint brushes, and this sharp pointy thing. There is a bottle of "fly nap". The fly nap is what we used to anesthetize the fruit flies. That vial in the back that I was sniffing.... anesthesia. WOW!!! I'm a genius. I took some pictures and even a few videos to share with the girls and they are so ex...