It's been a long time between blogs and too much has happened to go backward. Here's life in a short summary. It took forever to get our house on the market---not enough Magic Eraser available to clean up our world. The tile fell off our shower, the basement flooded, we filled a storage shed full of "treasure", we got new carpet, we learned to live clean, we straightened up for strangers and they didn't make an offer----but in the meanwhile other stuff was happening. I went to Las Vegas for an Arbonne marathon--so fun, the girls had an activity daily, EACH in May, H ran track, Kat, Ab and Em all play softball, 2 games/week for each of them plus practice. I got Jess back from HU and we sent her to Italy for summer school. Em graduated from Kindergarten, everyone had field trips and awards ceremonies. We said good bye to our friends at Blackburn Elementary and M said good bye to his career and is ready for his new one. We had a lovely good bye party with our church friends. So nice. We took one breath, then put H on a plane for Hawaii with the band, and got ready for our camping family reunion.
That leads us to the most recent events. We survived our annual AR camping trip. There are still about 15 loads of clothes to do--I'm not kidding. We had tons of fun. Nothing says roughing it like having an air conditioner duct taped to your tent. Actually it got so cold every night we had to turn it off. They kids had a great time riding bikes for hours with all the cousins, also swimming and playing kickball and card games etc....The grown ups played a lot of cards, got band aids, ate a lot and visited. I came back to KC and got H off the Hawaii trip and returned to camp so she could be jet lagged with us. She had a great time and is nearly recovered.
I talked to Miss J today, only the 2nd time all summer. She is doing well, has seen some amazing sights and is having so much fun! They took a class outing to the Isle of Capri and Pompeii last week. They have "free travel" this week, free meaning no classes, not free $$. :)
The big news is that we have a contract on our house and a date to be out! Woo Hoo! Now we will set our sites on SL and finding a place there. So much to do and this whole move thing is getting really REAL!! We still don't know all the details of how this will work, but know that the Lord is making this happen b/c we are so clueless right now and too TIRED to try to figure out all the details. :)
There---that's about as short as I can make it for now. It's late and I need to check the laundry one more time!! Father's Day is tomorrow. We are invited to our friends for grillin and chillin! Nice!!
5 comments:
Oh, Kris! What good news about your contract, but what a big job you have ahead of you! Best to you all, and some day remind me to ask how and why you hooked an airconditioner vent to your tent . . . .
Karen
Well it's nice to hear that you're still alive, even if only marginally so with all you have going on. I hope your contract goes through without a hitch. So when do you think you all will be moving? Sounds exciting and scary all at the same time. Keep us posted. Hey, A/C in the tent is not so far-fetched. We always take a space heater with us when we tent camp.
dkd
Kareny,
AC is MANDATORY when you camp in AR in June, July, Aug, Sept....The AC keeps the humidity down during the day and we had to turn it off at night b/c it was so cold. One of the cousins actually pulled the ac unit out of his trailer and brought it to us. We plopped it on a borrowed card table, next to the screened in window. Then the AR engineers fashion a trash bag around the vent to allow the machine to "blow" into our tent. We like to call it "White trash ingenuity". Mark's dad took several pix and I'd love to post one if I knew how. May have to learn to do that, or send you one. Thanks for reading!! What's new with you guys?
KK
Oh, DKD, we head out July 14 by 9 am. Am hopeful we will have a place to land, but that is another blog to come.....just a teaser!! Stay tuned!!
Hey Kris-Skype is great. If you have a head set with microphone you can even call and talk or it can be used like instant messenger. It's pretty easy to use. It's free to set up an account and free to call or chat with anyone who has an account. It would work great with Jess as long as it's not a problem for her to download it on the computer she is using. I have fun with it. I hope you guys get some use out of it.
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