Drumroll, please

It is over. The end is near. Brian is on campus today collecting signatures and/or comments on what he needs to change before he acquires everyone's signature. I am very excited to be on the brink of normalcy. Maybe. I know this last segment could go on for several weeks, but until I know that for sure I will hope for the best- a speedy completion of Brian's PhD.

Yesterday was quite nerve-wracking for both of us. I had sympathy nervousness. But Brian is an excellent presentation giver and went through his 50+ slides in about 45 minutes. The whole thing lasted about 2 hours, including the 10 minutes spent trying to contact committee member #5 who is now on his honeymoon in Morocco.

I have to insert that I feel like one of those real stay at home moms now. Nearly everything I process is sent through the filter, especially if I am away from my children like I was yesterday afternoon, of, "Andrew and James would..." One of Brian's committee members is originally from the UK and when he gave a lengthy relevant comment after the presentation all I could think about was, "Wow, I wonder if he would ever read Thomas and Friends to my boys." Ha! I guess before we had kids I would have thought something about him reading me the Bible on CD.

So we came home and Brian took us all out to dinner and to see a movie. A silly kids movie that our 1 and 3 year-old watched with much interest. (It was about dogs.) We had a nice time and talked about school only a little.

Now we are planning on catching up with the things that have fallen by the wayside in the past 6 months: cleaning out the garage, trimming the hedges (the trees which are supposed to be hedges), and repairing the dripping faucet in our bathroom shower. And I will gladly adjust my role in our life play to something a little more relaxed than what it has been.