hello again!

It's been WAAAY too long since I've been blogging regularly. As a result, I've been getting totally overwhelmed about where to even start. So, I decided to just hit the "high" points so you know what's been going on in the Burcusa household.

* My work has been crazy for about a year and a year. Like super, crazy, totally overwhelmingly busy.
* By February it got bad enough that I was horribly depressed and started back up in therapy again. (Should have listened to Mike and done it months earlier! I love my psychologist for helping me so much.) I can't even begin to describe how miserable I was feeling back then. I have a new level of empathy for anyone who is experiencing clinical depression.
* In early May, Mike accepted a job to be a chemistry teacher at Shakopee high school! Yay, Mike!
* Around that time (thanks to a lot of self-reflection, challenging, and creative thinking in therapy) I made the decision to find a new job.
* Also around that time, we transitioned Rose to her toddler bed. (<- my one post of the summer!)
* For Memorial Day we went to Hayward. Rose LOVED Grandma Roles' chickens, and she also got over her fear of the water and eventually went out on the boat once.  :)

Rose also loves the cheese curds and ice cream at the Burnett Dairy!

* Only about a week or so after I decided to find a new job, I was contacted by a former supervisor who wanted to recruit me! (Yes, the universe is amazing sometimes.) Interviews commenced.
* In early June we went to a family party (birthday / graduation / going away) and Rose got to hang out with her cousins.

*My parents came to visit in early June, and they introduced Rose to "rollercoasters"!

 * In mid-June Mike started staying home with Rose. They have been having so much fun together! They go to new parks, visit family, and just hang out together. I'm jealous!

*Right away Mike started with the potty training. (For Rose, not himself. Obvs.)  It was a smashing success! He is like a potty jedi.

*In June I was offered a new job - and I accepted!! I'm super excited that I'm going to be starting at the Minneapolis VA in early September. I'll be working on a rehab team, with patients recovering from stroke. I'll also probably be seeing some amputation and palliative care patients. I am thrilled with this upcoming adventure in my career!
*In late June I also learned that my phone would automatically make fun collages from the pictures I took.

* For the fourth of July, we had a GREAT staycation at home.  And Rose started to enjoy her Burley!

* Mike and I each watched the movie Tiny, which was incredibly thought provoking. It caused us to seriously reconsider our plans to move into a new (bigger) house in the next year or so. We're going to try to make a go of staying in our own tiny house instead! This is going to require a lot of cleaning and organizing...

One cupboard done...

* Rose and I like to go for walks whenever we can. She has started to love picking out her own clothes to wear, and often chooses many of the adorable dresses that people have given us.

 

* Mike took Rose to the cabin again last week, which meant I got to have the house to myself! Ahh, some OITNB, some wine, and some sewing. :)

* Finally, Mike and I just ordered new beds for ourselves (two twins, which is the equivalent of a king-size bed) because we are both light-sleeping control freaks who are unable to share (tee hee). Our plan had been to move our queen-sized bed downstairs to make a nice guest room in the basement, but our plan was foiled when the box spring couldn't make it down the steps. D'oh! So guess who now has a huge new bed? :)

Well, that's all folks! How's that for a whirldwind recap of the past several months?  Now that I'm caught up (and no longer depressed), hopefully I can go back to some more regular blog posts to keep you, my loyal readers, up to date.

Happy Friday!