The New Quests of The Turetzky Family

We've been home from Utah for nearly a week now. Things aren't quite back to normal yet, but we're getting back into the swing of things...which means I should blog before one more day goes by! The night before we were to fly home, the airline called us to tell us out flight had been cancelled. We had booked our flight out of the Provo airport and we were really looking forward to the short ride to the airport, but it just didn't work out. We were able to get our flight switched to another airline out of SLC for the same day our original flight was scheduled. We had no choice but to fly through LAX, which was a little unfortunate, but not really a problem. The upside: our flight was switched to American so we had free checked bags (because of all the Australia miles), and the kids did great even though our travel time increased by several hours more than originally planned. I'm so thankful the kids are great travelers! I've been thankful for all the rain tha...

We're in Utah having happy holidays with Darren's family! I've dropped the ball on my weekly posts as the year has come to a close, but I've decided to try again this year. Grouchiness has ensued as I have neglected to count my blessings each day, so I plan on getting back on track for 2013. As I reflect on last year, it's evident to me that when I recognized my blessings they seemed to multiply. There's several other things I plan on working on in the new year, but I'll keep the other things to myself until I can attest that I've successfully made some improvements :) Here's some unedited photos from the past couple weeks. I was looking at thumbnails when I uploaded them, so forgive me if some are blurry. There's a four generation pic of Darren and his family from the weekend before Christmas when we were in Colorado. The painting is one that Darren's grandma painted years ago and we digitized while in CO. There's pics from our Christ...

...or I should say trying to get things done! I'm not even sure how many days ago I started this post, but I am finally finishing it up and posting it. Whenever there is a lack of blogging from me, it's safe to guess that I'm sleep deprived and worn out more than usual. Nothing new, but I am on a roller coaster of emotions lately. I'm going to chalk it up to the sleep deprivation, but maybe it's something more...I don't know, but I'm just doing my best to keep it together. I'm going to go ahead and have a little blog therapy right now, so feel free to skip ahead to the goings on of the past week if you'd rather not have a peek into my head. I don't know how mothers of little children keep their sanity. Again, maybe it's just the lack of sleep that has me feeling wasted. I feel like I don't have my life in control these days. Lila definitely would like to be boss around here, and some days I probably let her boss me around too much. I st...