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Back to school after another two days off. Our Valentine's Day was fairly uneventful. Eric and I are going to Mount Vernon for the night tomorrow, so we didn't do anything special yesterday. We'll be taking the baby with us, but one child instead of three will feel like vacation. The best part of the day was giving the boys their Valentine's I got them. I bought them four new books and we snuggled on the couch together while we read them. I can't resist buying them little heart shaped candy boxes for Valentine's Day and they get really excited when there is candy they are allowed to eat in the house!

It feels like there are so many details about the future that aren't in place yet and I'm trying so hard to stay patient while I wait. Our housing situation isn't settled yet, which is a problem because the Columbus Public school lottery forms are due on February 28th. I've been visiting Columbus Alternative elementary schools all winter trying to determine which three I'll put on the lottery application. It's made me very anxious for a couple of reasons. First, I want him in the right school. Columbus Public is a very different school system than Grandview Heights. Everything is easy here, not so in Columbus. The system is complicated if you want to get your kids in one of the effective Columbus schools. The lottery application took me all afternoon to figure out, and that was with a call to the school choice office. Add to that we haven't secured a home in the school system yet, and it all gets really tricky. Second, the thought of Riley in all day kindergarten in a new school district with no one he knows is enough to give me a nervous break down if I let myself think about it for too long. In Grandview he would be in half day kindergarten and would know almost all the kids in his class from preschool or other things he's been a part of in the community. Sometimes I feel like we're taking away so much from him by moving to Franklinton. Most of the time though, I feel like we're going to be giving him something so much more important than what he gets here. I have found a preschool that I like for Trey in Franklinton for next fall, which is a relief.

Evan has yet another cold. I pulled out the breathing machine AGAIN this morning. Now we have the boys bringing home stuff from school and Eric bringing home stuff from work at the homeless shelter. Poor little guy catches anything that comes into the house. Eric felt pretty awful with this cold, so I'm hoping Evan recovers a little more quickly. At least he's still a happy baby when he doesn't feel the best, he's probably just used to feeling this way by now. He's into absolutely everything right now. He's crawling fast and pulling up on everything he can reach. Time to get these three little boys ready for the day!