GOOD NEWS

Well the good news keeps rolling in!

1)Peter was offered and accepted a full time position with his unit. This means that we will be here in Tampa for at least another 2 years.

2)So we decided to buy a place to live. On our first outing with tyhe Realtor, we found a town home we liked. Then we decided later in the week that we wanted to see it again and maybe put in an offer. But we learned it was already under contract. We were disappointed, but kept looking. We let our agent know we would be interested in that one if that pending offer didn't work out. I started to pray that if it was meant to be, that the original contract wouldn't go through. That Monday our agent, Dale, called and let me know that the contract hadn't worked out, so we put an offer in the next day. Then we found out there were 4 other offers for the same home. We raised our offer a little bit and waited. Tuesday we found out that our offer on a townhome was accepted and as long as there are no other glitches with appraisal and inspection we should be homeowners at the end of August. I'll post pictures of the place as soon as I can. So now I need to get cleaning, sorting and packing. But we are excited.

3)Meg's MRI came back perfect. She had been complaining about dizziness (the room spinning) since December so we took her to the Dr. and he ordered an MRI to rule out any tumors or anything. We had that done on Wednesday and got the results this AM. We are very relieved. Obviously we will continue to watch her and may pursue further testing if her dizziness persists or worsens, but otherwise we are a lot less worried than we were before.

4) Madie has decided she likes two naps a day and we are loving having some sort of schedule, even if it is always subject to change.

Here's hoping we soon have better news to post about our potty training efforts. Things were going really well for about three weeks and the last 5 days have been miserable. I finally had to go buy another package of panties, because we were going through all 10 pairs before lunch and I couldn't keep up with the laundry. Potty training has been an eye opening expereince as I have realized I am a lot less patient than I originally thought. A bummer, but we will keep pressing on.