Catching up.....

Hello! First i just want to take a moment to welcome our newest followers, Jenny and Allison.
Welcome to our blog! I hope you will stop in regularly and walk away with even the smallest bit of new information or at least a smile. This blog has a mind of its own, for sure. I write about more than i had planned to and on everything from homeschooling to parenting, feast days to our family life in general.


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Well, its been a bit since i have been on here - about a week or so.  Sometimes there is just no good way to write things, other times so many thoughts flood my brain that i end up so overwhelmed with ideas i just don't know how to write.  But i'm here now.
 
The youngest three and I traveled up north last week to pack up some things still at my parents home.  After being out of any place of our own for almost 2 years, we are/were hoping to move in the next couple of months; this trip got the process started i guess.  
 
We have been looking at rental homes and found out yesterday that a place we put an application in for, we got!!!!! Oh my gosh!  I am beside myself with excitement! (can't you tell? : ) ) ....So, now we move. Woohoo! : P
 
We have been so very blessed these past 2+ years as we have gone from being laid-off to losing our home (a rental), from constant job searching with no replies to a part -time job, and now starting this past January, a career job.  (My husband now has 2 jobs! - God bless him!)
 
We have had so many ups and downs....i can't even begin to tell you here.
 
We have found family and friends to be so supportive and caring on this journey, we have also found companies who have no business being companies when they treat their members (of about 30 years!) as badly as they do during a crisis.  We have learned a lot. 
 
But today, well today i am just overjoyed at the idea of a place all our own again.  A place to spread out and just be us.

Hey!

Well, the camera is not cooperating ...and that is the whole point of this right?  So you can see the kids. 

We are back down south. 

BUT ....the dog did get her bath!  Bella escaped it until Saturday...then she got one on Sunday too! That was Uncle Greg's fault!
If Gypsy (Uncle Greg's dog) didn't like mud so much ...well ...need i say more?  We were so busy cleaning dogs we missed the photo op there,  but here is Bella.       

ok, so its from last fall ...but like i said, the camera is not cooperating!  We'll have more pictures soon.

On the Road Again

The kids and I have headed back to Nina and Papa's for a week or more.  Daddy is working hard down at Memaw and Grandpa's.  The trip up was fast ...much faster then expected.... and we arrived safe and sound, after a few nights visit with friends.

That's one thing we have been so blessed with, children that travel well. We have no game boys or PPSs.  We have no movie screens or portable DVD players.  And i love it just that way.  There is a crate full of library books and a basket full of our own books.  We have books on tape (well, CDs now) and music...and each other.
It saddens me to see how much into daily life technology creeps for all of us.  The time traveling is really a breathe of fresh air.  (rereading this later i see i need to add 'the time spent traveling'...anyone catch that? Though time traveling in a van with a full load of kids and stuff would definitely make for an interesting trip!)

So what are the kids reading these days?  Boxcar Children, Cam Jansen, Redwall, Dora, Cars, and Little House on the Prairie.  Notice the tv/movie infiltration early on - you can't escape.  But there is Peter Rabbit, The Zoo, and Bible stories as well.  Plus tons of other titles i will not bore you with yet.
As for those books on tape, Mr. Revere and I,  and Ballet Shoes.  Unfortunately we did not get to hear either one on the trip up as the noise level was unusually high. We'll try again on the trip back south.

I have a couple of pictures we'll post later, i'll wait until after we bathe the dog ...yep, you read that right! That should bring in an interesting assortment of photos! : )  Little does Bella know we're coming for her! (this ought to be good.....)