Where does the time go?

I'm amazed that last time I blogged was a month ago and it's now November, a mere 8 weeks left in 2013.  Of course it's that time of year when Rob makes one of his trips back to Maryland for work and I'm left alone here in Texas, although this go around I'm not alone....I have Lane to keep me company!  Thanks to the government shutdown his trip this year was reduced to 3 weeks compared to last years 5 weeks.  It's still tough but I'm not complaining and I can't imagine how our military families deal with sons / daughters / brothers / sisters / moms and dads being deployed for months at a time and in harms way every day.  God bless them.

The past couple weeks have been busy as Lane's daily routine was turned upside down because she wasn't hanging at home with Rob all day.  She now goes to doggie day care 5 days a week. Our day starts early and ends late.  She has been a trooper, some days rougher than others but I think overall she has done great.

The house continues to be a work in progress, that just takes time.  A few weeks ago we had some massive rain storms and it destroyed our front rock landscaping which has resulted in a violation from the county for the rocks in the drainage tubes.  I thought this would be a somewhat easy task just moving rock around......think again, I was in for a rude awakening and will have to wait for Rob to get home for us to make any progress.  I like to think that I can do just about anything but damn that rock is hard to move.

We are looking forward to the holidays, our first in the house and with Lane.  We will be staying local for both Thanksgiving and Christmas as we both have to work.  I need to start my mission to find a new Christmas tree (yes we are fake Christmas tree people, but how long do you expect a tree to live down here in Texas??).

I have been contemplating whether I will keep this blog or if I will just consolidate to http://pitatriing.blogspot.com/.  Although I haven't been posting much on that site either but I have been thinking a lot about what goals I'll be setting for 2014!!