Another Update

I feel bad because I never blog anymore. So many things have gotten in the way and my life has gotten so busy! I want to update on everything, but I don't know if I can remember it all.

I'm home with Annabelle while Mitchell is at the priesthood session of conference and Joseph is playing with a friend. It's so lonely! I think that I'm spoiled because Mitchell and I spend a lot of time together. It's going to be hard when he gets a real job and works normal hours because I always want to keep him for myself.

We've really enjoyed conference so far. It's wonderful to hear so many inspiring messages. I'm excited to hear more tomorrow. I have to admit that I'm also excited that I don't have to wake up for our 8 am church. It really is just a terrible time for church to start!

We are expecting Baby Ellis #3 in November. My due date is the 27th, but I think the baby will be born the 18th. Both Joseph and Annabelle were born about 9 days before their due date, so I think this baby will be similar. I like patterns in things and I decided that this baby has to be born on and even day because all of our birthdays are even. The 18th would be a perfect number because it fits between Joseph's 16th and Mitchell's 20th. I also wanted the baby to be born in November because then we would have October, November, December babies. But it does mean a lot of presents all in a row. And I'm always pregnant in the summer...

We've been having a pretty difficult time lately. We stopped getting food stamps at the end of February, but Mitchell still doesn't have a job. He went on a field trip to LA at the beginning of the month that cost a lot of money and then buying groceries has put a huge dent in our bank account. It's so hard when we don't make any money of our own. We are hoping that Mitchell will start some work sometime in April. The company that his brother works for is supposed to start giving him work and it will all be done from home. If he can start doing that, we will make more money than we ever have before, but we don't know when he's starting. One thing that's sad about living on only student loans is when we run out of money at the end of semester. It just happens to be that Easter and our anniversary are at the end of this semester. We think we might be able to go to a movie for our anniversary, though, so that will be fun. Mitchell has class the whole day anyways. We are going to have Easter dinner at Samantha's house and that will be fun, too. It's good for us to learn to sacrifice things that aren't necessary, even if they are things that we really want and feel like should be a part of these special times.

I'm hoping to be able to remember to blog more often, but I always say that and never do it. Maybe if I keep my fingers crossed...

All By Myself

Mitchell just left on an Illustration student field trip to LA. He will be gone until Saturday night. The longest we've ever been apart since we were married is about 1 day, so this is pretty huge for me. The kids have never been away from Daddy for more than a day of classes. It's definitely going to be a big adventure for us this week. I don't do very well being alone, especially with my depression, so I'm going to be trying to do lots of fun things with the kids. It doesn't help that I think I have an ovarian cyst because I've been in a lot of pain the past couple days and I woke up with a sore throat today...

I'm going to take this time to get a lot of work done that I normally wouldn't do because I would rather be spending time with Mitchell. The kids and I are going to go to the zoo and the park and do other fun things. And Mitchell is going to be visiting a lot of studios that he would love to work at someday.