New Neighbors

This round of chemo is definitely taking more out of Shermance.  She isn't hungry. She is tired.  She is on edge. She seems stressed out about everything - big and little. Hopefully this isn't a trend and tomorrow she can bounce back. In fact, everyone is getting worn down a bit. Even Logan wanted some down time last night, so was glad his bro slept at a friends house after hanging at the neighborhood pool till 10 pm.  Parker gets a break this whole week since his bro will be at Boy Scout camp all week. It was touching, though, that Logan hoped Parker would come home from his overnight before he left for camp.  When he hadn't made it home, Logan walked over to where he was staying and said goodbye. We didn't prompt him, nor did we know he had left.  Logan's got a tender heart.

Today, Shermance is tired of a third day of being tired, and she is sick of being sick. Yet, she also doesn't want to take any more meds.  Between her steroid, nausea medicine, sleep medicine, heart-burn medication and Juice Plus+ vitamins, she's taking upwards of 10 pills a day.  On top of that she has other meds at 6 or 8 hour intervals to take at the first sign of nausea. Her biggest worry is whether she can work tomorrow, and if the effects are cumulative that she may need to take time off after the next 2 rounds of AC...Let's hope tomorrow is better.

On the home front...Yesterday, Shermance's brother, Collin, invited us to look at two houses in our neighborhood.  They really hadn't planned on moving anytime soon, but after years of us raving about Behren's Ranch and now Collin's boss telling the same story their interest was already picqued.  Now that they have a month old daughter, that clinched it.  They needed to expand from thier cute bungalow house in 'weired' North Austin up to our 'mildly unusual' 'hood.  Both had the same floor plan though all agreed the second was the right choice. They put in an offer and it was verbally accepted that night! The selling owner knows Shermance and was especially excited that it would go to a nice family for their cul-de-sac.

Houses are moving very fast in this 'hood, and that is the speed Collin moves on purchases...just like Shermance.  In Collin's case, they started looking at houses Wednesday and again with us Saturday, made an offer and had it accepted in the same day.  Basically they decided to start looking one day and 4 days later they were under informal contract...Wahoo!