March has slipped away without me doing what I set out to do with this darn blog...document! So, without further ado I will recap the month of March in abbreviated fashion...
I don't have adequate pictures yet, so text will have to do for now.
March began with Mardi Gras season. For the Patellas this consisted of not doing one Mardi Gras related thing. I have loosened up a lot with having 4 kids, but lugging a newborn to a parade is just not something that sounds like a good time to me. The boys celebrated at their schools with little parades and such...that will have to do for this year.
Two weeks into the month, and we have the privilege of celebrating the wedding of Marie and Jeff. Marie is one of my oldest and most wonderful friends...the kind that you can just pick up where time left off and not skip a beat. You know I love this girl if I'm willing to walk down the aisle for her 4 weeks after having a baby!!! It was such an honor to be a part of this event, plus it threw me back into the fast lane. At 4 weeks Abram ate lunch at Commander's Palace, dinner at French Market Cafe, visited the Roosevelt hotel, rode in a limo, and partied at the Audubon Tea Room...we have a lot to live up to after that entrance into the social scene. All joking aside, I loved watching Marie make the most important decision of her life so far...while wearing a stunning gown =)
The boys finally got to go to a parade! We met the Gooch's and Cabiro's out for the St. Patrick's Day parade in Metairie. Abram slept, Joel dug in the dirt, Dominic threw a football with Tad, and Elijah was front and center trying to score as many beads as he could...
Tad is still trying to find himself in his new position at work. At the moment it feels like he is the "go to" guy for a hodge podge of projects and tasks and he is a little out of his comfort zone. This is where growth happens and he is doing a great job trying to keep on top of everything they put in front of him. I am honestly so proud of how much responsibility and faith his coworkers and boss put with him...they know he'll do his absolute best. My boys have a great role model.
The end of the month was a little bit stressful. Not sure if that's the right word, but stress was definitely a factor so we'll go with that. The house hunt is beginning to seem never-ending. The townhouse we are currently in is great, but it's not our permanent home...With half of our belongings/furniture in storage, we don't have the means to really get and stay organized. This can be a little frustrating with 3 kids worth of toys and school stuff, 1 husband worth of husband's stuff, 1 wife worth of wife's stuff, and 1 baby worth of baby's stuff. We re-evaluate our search criteria almost daily ("do we really need running water?" "are walls absolutely necessary?") and this actually led us to a property we had skimmed over a couple months ago. A friend of ours mentioned a house for sale in their neighborhood (we get a lot of this), I check it out on the web, and honestly didn't feel like taking on a project. This house was kind of ugly outside and needed lots of updating inside...sigh. But after a little nudge from Tad and countless pokes from Justin (yea, yea) I decide to look at the house with an open mind. The lot is huge, we'll be two houses away from some of our favorite people, the house just needs a little color updating outside, all the floors will need to be redone inside and every single wall will need a coat of paint...i start to get a little excited. I have learned through this process never to actually get excited...there's too much that can go wrong to get emotionally attached to any prospective house. We do however pray very hard over this house and both of us feel a sense of excitement...we decide to put an offer in. We go back and forth a bit, but we actually have the house under contract! woohoo! The next step with buying a house is inspections...so we scurry to get them scheduled on Tuesday before Tad goes out of town on Wednesday. Tad and a guy named Donald inspect every nook and cranny of this 3000 sq ft house...along with this marathon inspection comes a video inspection of the plumbing (ya'll are more than welcome to borrow it if redbox is down) and a termite guy. I anxiously await the verdict, and eventually just show up at the house to hear the summary myself. The inspector finds 2 things we should be concerned about...mold and termites...sigh.
March ends with us believing we had found a house for our growing family to stretch out into...a place to end this chapter of our story. We have a lot of thinking to do. We have a lot of praying to do. Well, that's the end of the month...have to wait until April to see what happens...April holds a big decision...stay tuned.
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