What do you do with your day off?

Ryan decided to mulch the leaves in the garden area with our battery powered weed whacker.

Anna worked on her Goldy Locks and the 3 Bears show :)

Wife

This is the wonderful wife that I married.

Judgment

Its hard being a parent. You need to figure out whats the best for your kid even though it is easier to give in. Some days you need a hard hat.

I was taking a nap (which Anna knew about) and she tells me she can't play her game on the computer. I tell her after nap time I will help her. She can either join me or play something else.

THAT did not go over well.

• She cried


• Her nose ran


• Screamed


• shook fists


• kicked her feet-which is a new one for her

If all this did not happen I would have thought about helping her but she just turned into the 2 year old we never had throwing a tantrum.

I sang "My Little Sunshine" like 29 times with her in my arms kicking and sniffing loudly.

She is asleep now on my bed. We will talk when she wakes up about what went on but right now she needs to rest.

The start of Preschool

I took Anna to her first day of American preschool. Some of you remember that she went to preschool in India in a tie and uniform. Here it is more relaxed.

We got to the door and waited for it to be unlocked. She then told me that she did not want me to come with her to her room.

She actually ran down the hall carrying her bag without me. I did make sure she got in the right class.

She put her bag away and then started to play with the toys. She even gave Mrs. Kirby a hug.

Now what do I do? Right now I am cleaning the kitchen and blogging to you :)

More than a month in

Wow!

We have been so busy the past month. We spent two weeks in the extended stay (dorm rooms have it better.) Then we moved into our new place, learned that the basement leaks a lot when it rains. I took out a dog run as a method of dealing with the frustration. Now I am putting in retaining walls from the former dog run material so that we can have a nice large garden area next spring. (And garlic will be planted in the fall.)

When we moved in I had a plan... and it has worked fairly well. The last house was 2500 square feet, this one is 950, we should be living in about 1500sqft. When the moving truck came we put all the boxes and small furniture in the garage and the big furniture in the house. Then over the past few weeks we are slowly filling the house and emptying the garage. Once we can park two cars in the garage then we will go buy a new TV. (Sold the last tv instead of putting it on the moving truck.)

As of this afternoon we officially have a new member of the family but that is for another post.

Here we are

We have landed in the JLL Extended Stay in Cedar Falls Iowa.

Just one week ago we put all our belongings on a truck in Erie Pennsylvania.

Now to start the job.

Find a place to live.

Find a Church Family.

Find Friends.

Learn the best grociery stores, doctors, dentists, and playgrounds.

Pray for us.

We are moving

We had a garage sale this weekend. I was glad to have my parents down to help attract people and sell stuff.

We did this to empty our home and to get read to move to Iowa.

Ryan has a job there and pray we get to land for a while. We have been here for 9 months now and moving is not fun.

We will miss our Church Grace. Here is what we were up to with them this week : Extreme Home Make Over. Ryan got to even see Ty.