hello blogging world

Well, this is my very first blog. So I suppose I should introduce myself a bit. I am fortunate enough to be able to be a stay home mom/housewife. Most of the year we only have my soon to be 18 year old step son living with us, but in the summer, and some holidays, we also get my 2 younger step daughters as well.
The girls are here now, but will be leaving us again in about a week and a half. We shall miss them, but at the same time, I am ready for them to go back. This summer has been difficult for me, as my hubby started a new job that takes him away from home for weeks at a time. So it has been just me and the kids for most of the summer.
This has also been complicated by some medical issues for me. I was diagnosed at the start of the summer with PCOS and insulin resistance. So I've been on high doses of hormones and glucophage all summer which sends me into mood swings alot. Which has really made summer alone with the kids interesting.
I've also had most of our pet mice hit the one year mark this spring, with a good number of them now past a year and ahalf/2 years - which means that they are going to be aging off soon. We're looking towards lots of little mousey deaths this winter, and next summer for certain as the bulk of them will hit 2 years by next June. And the gerbils... one of them (Muad) got an ear infection this summer and had a large bloody abcess develop and burst. He was healing up nicely, had a nice big scab, but earlier this week he decided it would be fun to rip that scab off and bleed all over everything. Scared me something horrid to go down and find him covered in blood with spatter marks all over his tank.. silly gerbil.. got him all cleaned up though and it wasn't nearly as bad as it had looked.. he is once again on the mend.
Well, I guess that will do it for today's posting. Will see what draws me to post next....