My Adventures: Its Been Nuts and Tia's Six

When we arrived home from Thanksgiving I was so looking forward to getting decorations up and relaxing into Christmas. I did get decorations up but relaxing into Christmas got thrown out the window. We have been considering moving and have been perusing the market to see if there was something in our price range that would give us more than what we have right now. Well, we accidentally found the perfect house. So, we made an offer and negotiated a bit on that and then wabam had to get our house on the market in less than a week. Only 3 days after acceptance. Our offer was a contingency offer, so we have/had until Jan. 13th to get under contract. I started boxing up 'spare' things and cleaning and cleaning. Gaupo was trying to work and help me. Plus, after consulting with my realtor sister in Arizona (Lindsay Bryce just in case you need a great one) we decided that the main floor, hallway, and master bath needed to be repainted. I did not have the time, brain power, or capacity to do it so we hired it out. I love that it brightened up the place a ton, but not sure I love it. Anyway, our house was live on the market 1 week after our offer was accepted (Dec. 11). We had a ton of showing requests and received and accepted an offer in less than 48 hours. We actually had 2 offers in that time. We were so blessed. So, we still honored the showings for Saturday, but then I luckily didn't have to worry about those anymore and we could let our house be on Christmas break kind of. We still had an inspection that went well, and the appraisal is this week. This is all so fast. I totally planned to make this home purchase a way more planned endeavor, but that isn't how it has worked out so here we are moving in February.

In the midst of all of that crazy, we had a spunky gal who turned six--Tia. Tia was such a champ. She wanted balloons on her birthday and loved all the attention and 'special privileges' (like getting your hair done first) that came with her being the birthday girl. We had mac and cheese for lunch and taco's for dinner. She was so excited about her presents that she opened them first thing once everyone was awake. She actually wanted to open them sooner, but we made her wait till everyone was up. She had a brownie cake for dessert. She loved her birthday and I was so glad. It was such a blessing that it landed on Sunday that was we could really celebrate her and not worry about anything but her.

Here is a little Tia update for you. Tia is officially six and if you ask her how old she is she will tell you "I just barely turned 6." She loves school. She enjoys the kids there and she is kept super busy. This year at her IEP (individual education plan) meeting the teachers and I decided to label her with having a developmental delay which doesn't really mean a whole lot except Tia can get the help she needs at school. Tia now receives speech therapy, occupational therapy, and special education which pretty much means she gets pulled out of the classroom twice a day to get extra help on school work. In some ways it seems so wrong to put a label on her, but the bottom line is Tia needs more help than the average kid and the way to get the help she needs is by allowing a label to be put on her for the next three years. In three years we reevaluate and see what we need to do. There was a lot of prayer and fasting put into that meeting that I went to and I know we have done the right thing for her. She is smart and knows things, but getting that to show is a really challenge. However, she loves it all and it doesn't bug her a bit that she gets to go with cool adults and other friends to do things away from her class, in fact she loves it. So, for now it works and she gets to come home and be a kid which I LOVE!

Tia is still her super energetic self. She still loves biking, and scootering. She recently got a pair of rollerblades for Christmas and does excellent on those too. She loves the swing in the basement and can swing and twist on that thing for quite awhile. She did amazing at building the lego set we gave her for her birthday. She did it pretty much all on her own. Though she did work better if nobody was being distracting and if you just paid attention to her. You didn't have to give her directions she just like to have your attention. She loves music and knows how to run all the CD players in the house. She also loves it super loud. She loves watching movies and shows when we will let her. Kylee is still her best friend although, Kade and Abby are her favorite play toys. She loves those twins. She still loves hauling them around, chasing them, cuddling and smashing them, and loving them. Tia's sweet spirit is still running in her body and she care for everyone. She has a big heart and love to take care of people and help. Tia is such a joy. She brings so much party, and life to my life. I am so grateful to be her mom. She is quite the amazing girl, I hope she always believes she is as awesome as she thinks she is right now. Because 6 year old Tia can do anything, is game for anything, and has tons of life and spunk.

Love you Tia girl!