Moving began today! It was so great to start moving boxes and furniture into our new house!
The cats aren't quite sure, just yet, what to think but they will adjust just fine and I think they will love it here. I already do. Tomorrow will be more of the same; packing up last minute things, sweating in the humidity and hauling endless loads of stuff into the new place. Just to think about the endless months of waiting are finally coming to an end. This was the first domino in the series. That is SO exciting!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
delays
After all these months of waiting, we are on the brink of three very cool things:
I have a theory about all this waiting. I know I've posted before that patience is not one of the virtues God gave me. Well, I think He intends to prove otherwise and, by stacking three things about which I am overly excited all together, He gives me an opportunity to experience and practice patience (whether I really want to or not).
God is so good about giving us what we need and He knows that patience is one of those things that all mothers need. It is, after all, one of the fruit of the Spirit. Colossians 1:10-12 says,
So, instead of thrashing around because I wanted to pick up the keys yesterday and start moving things in today, I will thank God for an extra day to pack and grow new ideas about how I want the new house to look. I will be thankful that the builder is being thorough and making sure all the inspections are finished and everything is ready for us to move in. I will remain flexible if the timeline is pushed again.
Instead of watching the clock for August 1, I will enjoy seeing the pictures of Munchkin and let the anticipation grow. Her dad and soon-to-be-stepmom have been so sweet to send LOTS of pictures this summer - I am eager to hear all the stories that go with the pictures!
Instead of whining because I am tired of my belly feeling so stretched, my back hurting from the pain of carrying this all out in front little girl, the heartburn and braxton hicks and all the other discomforts that come at the end, I will marvel at this amazing work God has created inside me. I will think of all the footie kisses I will very soon be giving her, I will imagine counting the red (hopefully) fuzz on her head. I will continue to anticipate those first smiles, cries, yawns and all the other amazing little things that come with a brand new baby.
Instead of being impatient and grouchy, I have an opportunity to be thankful and amazed at all these blessings God has promised - very soon!
- Munchkin will be home in 11 days (yes, I'm counting)
- the new place is ready to move into
- the Stowaway makes her grand entrance
I have a theory about all this waiting. I know I've posted before that patience is not one of the virtues God gave me. Well, I think He intends to prove otherwise and, by stacking three things about which I am overly excited all together, He gives me an opportunity to experience and practice patience (whether I really want to or not).
God is so good about giving us what we need and He knows that patience is one of those things that all mothers need. It is, after all, one of the fruit of the Spirit. Colossians 1:10-12 says,
And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
So, instead of thrashing around because I wanted to pick up the keys yesterday and start moving things in today, I will thank God for an extra day to pack and grow new ideas about how I want the new house to look. I will be thankful that the builder is being thorough and making sure all the inspections are finished and everything is ready for us to move in. I will remain flexible if the timeline is pushed again.
Instead of watching the clock for August 1, I will enjoy seeing the pictures of Munchkin and let the anticipation grow. Her dad and soon-to-be-stepmom have been so sweet to send LOTS of pictures this summer - I am eager to hear all the stories that go with the pictures!
Instead of whining because I am tired of my belly feeling so stretched, my back hurting from the pain of carrying this all out in front little girl, the heartburn and braxton hicks and all the other discomforts that come at the end, I will marvel at this amazing work God has created inside me. I will think of all the footie kisses I will very soon be giving her, I will imagine counting the red (hopefully) fuzz on her head. I will continue to anticipate those first smiles, cries, yawns and all the other amazing little things that come with a brand new baby.
Instead of being impatient and grouchy, I have an opportunity to be thankful and amazed at all these blessings God has promised - very soon!
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
countdown
12 days until my baby girl is home. I can't wait! I think she's probably grown a foot since she left.
At Disney (beginning of June)
A week ago.
OOH - SO ready to see her again!!!!
At Disney (beginning of June)
A week ago.
OOH - SO ready to see her again!!!!
Home Again
Back from San Antonio. Coach & I went down Sunday for Coaching School. We stayed in a very pretty hotel, just across the street from the Convention Center and the Rivercenter Mall. We were about three blocks from the Alamo and a very short drive to everything else. We had fun walking through the exhibit hall with all the vendors and I found a great book I'm going to buy for my Mentor Board. He found some leadership stuff he's going to use with his boys and he's really excited about it.
The drive back was nice - we took 130 around Austin, instead of cutting up through the I-35 traffic and I'm telling you, we may never take I-35 through Austin again. DEFINITELY worth the extra few miles of open country!
Met a few of the wives while at CS and, like the vast majority of everything else, it was all about football. I can see how Coach gets a little huffy around stuff like that. I know this is Texas, folks, so I don't need to be reminded about Friday Night Lights and how football is god around here. I love football. There is something visceral about the crisp October air, the buzz of the stadium lights, the marching bands, ... well, you get it. It's part of the Texan psyche.
BUT.
While my love for high school football isn't diminished (I dreamed about season tickets last night - yes really), I have discovered a new love. The look of real grass, the intellectual game that is able to tie you as tight as a bowstring with suspense - the players' game (as Coach calls it) - Soccer. I really do love the game; even though there are parts of it I still don't understand.
It would have been nice to find a few soccer wives there to visit with but I have a hunch that if they are as independent as their soccer-coach husbands (and most of the soccer coaches I've met walk to their own drummer anyway), that might not happen very often.
But, it was still fun.
We ate REALLY good Mexican food the whole trip.
Casa Rio, on the Riverwalk
mi Tierra with their wonderful bakery and foil decorations that dazzled your eyes - and the food - best tamales I've ever eaten!
Shopping at El Mercado (I found a gorgeous flowerpot that I can't wait to put on our new patio!! :)
It was a great trip. San Antonio just might be my favorite city in Texas to escape to. It's just different and wonderful and yet so very familiar from years of visiting. It's like seeing an old friend - you may go years before visiting again but, when you get there, it's as if all is still right where you knew it would be.
The drive back was nice - we took 130 around Austin, instead of cutting up through the I-35 traffic and I'm telling you, we may never take I-35 through Austin again. DEFINITELY worth the extra few miles of open country!
Met a few of the wives while at CS and, like the vast majority of everything else, it was all about football. I can see how Coach gets a little huffy around stuff like that. I know this is Texas, folks, so I don't need to be reminded about Friday Night Lights and how football is god around here. I love football. There is something visceral about the crisp October air, the buzz of the stadium lights, the marching bands, ... well, you get it. It's part of the Texan psyche.
BUT.
While my love for high school football isn't diminished (I dreamed about season tickets last night - yes really), I have discovered a new love. The look of real grass, the intellectual game that is able to tie you as tight as a bowstring with suspense - the players' game (as Coach calls it) - Soccer. I really do love the game; even though there are parts of it I still don't understand.
It would have been nice to find a few soccer wives there to visit with but I have a hunch that if they are as independent as their soccer-coach husbands (and most of the soccer coaches I've met walk to their own drummer anyway), that might not happen very often.
But, it was still fun.
We ate REALLY good Mexican food the whole trip.
Casa Rio, on the Riverwalk
mi Tierra with their wonderful bakery and foil decorations that dazzled your eyes - and the food - best tamales I've ever eaten!
Shopping at El Mercado (I found a gorgeous flowerpot that I can't wait to put on our new patio!! :)
It was a great trip. San Antonio just might be my favorite city in Texas to escape to. It's just different and wonderful and yet so very familiar from years of visiting. It's like seeing an old friend - you may go years before visiting again but, when you get there, it's as if all is still right where you knew it would be.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
it's all guessing
Mom:
7lbs 6oz
Water break 2:30am or 8:30pm
8/16/10
Dad:
7lbs 7oz
Water break 10am
8/26/10
Any other guesses?
7lbs 6oz
Water break 2:30am or 8:30pm
8/16/10
Dad:
7lbs 7oz
Water break 10am
8/26/10
Any other guesses?
Friday, July 16, 2010
up and at 'em
Awake early this morning - actually slept all through the night! (I sound like a baby) I haven't done that in I don't know HOW long! Hopped up and made the bed, folded a load of laundry, started another load, put away clean dishes (thank you, Coach!) and sorted through some clothes of Munchkin's that she's outgrown.
So thankful for a good night's sleep. It's amazing how different the morning looks when approached after a solid 7 hours of sleep!
Really motivated to get a lot of packing done this weekend. We have several areas almost finished.
Areas that haven't been touched yet:
We still have a lot to do. The China cabinet will take several hours because there are so many pieces and they have to be individually wrapped and I need to get more paper. I've thought about going through that stuff and getting rid of what I won't actually use but most of the knick-nacks were my grandparents and I don't think I should give them away. *sigh* It's hard to know what to do there.
Munchkin will be home in 17 days! I am SO happy and I can't wait to have her home again. I know she's had a good time and this is an important part of her summer but it is SO great when she comes home.
I think, instead of trying to buy a bed right away for her, we'll use the bed she has without the long legs (she'll go from a very tall bed to a very short bed) and do something fun with fabric to make a little canopy/tent with her lights - it'll be her very own little space.
We have a list running of things we need/want for the new house. The chairs we bought last year at IKEA haven't fared well and several of them need to be repaired and we've put new ones on our list of things to buy (eventually).
The Stowaway is pretty much set - we have her crib, bedding and stroller and we're going to re-use Munchkin's changing table/dresser. I will probably use bins in the closet for clothes and keep as much stuff hung up as possible. That seems to be easier for Munchkin to manage, rather than stuffing folding clothes into her drawers. *grin*
I've gone through all Munchkin's toys and gotten rid/donated LOTS of stuff. It will be so much easier for her to manage. She still has barbies; just not 50 of them and all the little pieces that go with them. She still has baby doll stuff; it's just organized. She has all her teacher stuff; it's just been organized. I think she will be very happy with what we've done.
The best (and only really good) part about moving is the ability to really cull your stuff of clutter, things that don't fit, books we won't read again and stuff we just don't want/can't use. I'm even doing it in the kitchen. I have some great metal mixing bowls but I never use them because they are too big for the dishwasher and they don't fit in any of the cabinets. I don't think I've used them since we moved into this apartment. So they are going. I would love to get rid of my square dishes (very asian) but Coach likes the deep cereal bowls. *laugh* I'm going to thin out my coffee cup collection - do I really need 30 miscellaneous mugs?
Well, it's just about 8am and I am going to get my bowl of cereal then go ahead and go in to the office. Have a great day!!!
So thankful for a good night's sleep. It's amazing how different the morning looks when approached after a solid 7 hours of sleep!
Really motivated to get a lot of packing done this weekend. We have several areas almost finished.
- The kitchen is just lacking the pantry, every day dishes and pots and pans to be finished.
- Munchkin's room is almost finished but for one small box of toys, her clothes (still need to finish sorting) and some misc. books and things
- Our room is just lacking the rest of the closet (that's going to be a big task), our photo albums and my antique books
Areas that haven't been touched yet:
- China Cabinet
- Bird Cabinet
- Bathrooms
- Misc. Decorations - throughout the house
We still have a lot to do. The China cabinet will take several hours because there are so many pieces and they have to be individually wrapped and I need to get more paper. I've thought about going through that stuff and getting rid of what I won't actually use but most of the knick-nacks were my grandparents and I don't think I should give them away. *sigh* It's hard to know what to do there.
Munchkin will be home in 17 days! I am SO happy and I can't wait to have her home again. I know she's had a good time and this is an important part of her summer but it is SO great when she comes home.
I think, instead of trying to buy a bed right away for her, we'll use the bed she has without the long legs (she'll go from a very tall bed to a very short bed) and do something fun with fabric to make a little canopy/tent with her lights - it'll be her very own little space.
We have a list running of things we need/want for the new house. The chairs we bought last year at IKEA haven't fared well and several of them need to be repaired and we've put new ones on our list of things to buy (eventually).
The Stowaway is pretty much set - we have her crib, bedding and stroller and we're going to re-use Munchkin's changing table/dresser. I will probably use bins in the closet for clothes and keep as much stuff hung up as possible. That seems to be easier for Munchkin to manage, rather than stuffing folding clothes into her drawers. *grin*
I've gone through all Munchkin's toys and gotten rid/donated LOTS of stuff. It will be so much easier for her to manage. She still has barbies; just not 50 of them and all the little pieces that go with them. She still has baby doll stuff; it's just organized. She has all her teacher stuff; it's just been organized. I think she will be very happy with what we've done.
The best (and only really good) part about moving is the ability to really cull your stuff of clutter, things that don't fit, books we won't read again and stuff we just don't want/can't use. I'm even doing it in the kitchen. I have some great metal mixing bowls but I never use them because they are too big for the dishwasher and they don't fit in any of the cabinets. I don't think I've used them since we moved into this apartment. So they are going. I would love to get rid of my square dishes (very asian) but Coach likes the deep cereal bowls. *laugh* I'm going to thin out my coffee cup collection - do I really need 30 miscellaneous mugs?
Well, it's just about 8am and I am going to get my bowl of cereal then go ahead and go in to the office. Have a great day!!!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
yes we CAN!
TXU found the house! We've scheduled electricity! Now we can move! Today, I'll get the lease and let Coach go down to the City and set up the water account and the two critical items will be done. Yes, yes, we'll schedule Time Warner Cable but seriously, folks, these people are clueless. Yesterday, they told me I couldn't move service from one zip code to another without starting a whole new account and that we would get a credit but we'd lose the rest of the MLS Direct Kick package we bought.
Does this sound like good business practice to anybody? This entire summer, TWC has been irritating us with their sloppy billing errors, multiple mixed messages about our service and, in general, the poor quality of service. And then to tell me I can't move two miles away from this apartment in 76504 to a house in 76502 (in the same city) without basically starting all over again - just about takes the cake.
I told the gal on the phone yesterday DirectTV was looking better and better. (not that I really want satellite, mind you, but I'm just about at the end of my patience with our current set-up.)
In other news...
Wait, there isn't other news - we're in full moving mode. I'll spare you today.
Work is good. The great thing about summer is that I can pretty much focus on one task at a time. It's such a nice change from the hectic pace of the school year when 20 things are happening or due at once.
I'm working on the website today and getting some letters out and order thank you notes for our new donors. I might go in a little early so I can get started. After cereal, of course, Oscar... No, sweet kitty, I won't forget your milk.
Does this sound like good business practice to anybody? This entire summer, TWC has been irritating us with their sloppy billing errors, multiple mixed messages about our service and, in general, the poor quality of service. And then to tell me I can't move two miles away from this apartment in 76504 to a house in 76502 (in the same city) without basically starting all over again - just about takes the cake.
I told the gal on the phone yesterday DirectTV was looking better and better. (not that I really want satellite, mind you, but I'm just about at the end of my patience with our current set-up.)
In other news...
Wait, there isn't other news - we're in full moving mode. I'll spare you today.
Work is good. The great thing about summer is that I can pretty much focus on one task at a time. It's such a nice change from the hectic pace of the school year when 20 things are happening or due at once.
I'm working on the website today and getting some letters out and order thank you notes for our new donors. I might go in a little early so I can get started. After cereal, of course, Oscar... No, sweet kitty, I won't forget your milk.
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