The bathrooms are finished and the kitchen is unpacked. That's significant, considering all that the kitchen/pantry entails. I'm quite proud of my progress so far. The children have toys out, although they are not organized yet. I need to buy more plastic storage boxes for their toys, I suspect.
We finally got internet on Saturday. Kyle spent the night Saturday and we had a fun time with him. The children are getting used to the house, and are settling well.
We've had several playdates with our friends already. Grace feels so relieved to be back with her friends. And I must confess, so do I. Everyone lives about 10 minutes away from us, and most of my friends homeschool. So we fit just perfectly. It's like we never left.
Grace has joined American Heritage Girls, which is like Girl Scouts, only with a Christian emphasis. My friend Carin is her troop leader. We go camping with them this weekend. Yay!
Our house feels big, in a good way. We're not crowded cheek-to-jowl with "stuff" like we have been in previous homes. My big walk in closet helps a great deal. AJ likes his room and is learning to be helpful. Grace, too. She's been a little bored watching me unpack boxes, and I need to figure out a routine for her or something to do to stay out of trouble so I can catch my breath here. Plus the reading curriculum her teacher gave me is very basic for her. She's reading on a solid second grade level, so besides her handwriting and math curriculum, we're going to read many many books. And perhaps we'll go visit the beach, the zoo and Sea World this week. The first two are less than 10 minutes away from us, and so educational, and the latter is close to my parents' home and we have a pass that expires January 1. Might as well use it, right? Esp. now that the weather is breezy and beautiful.
I think we're going to have Thanksgiving at my new home this year. Terry's not so sure this is a good idea because of the many boxes we still have to go through, but I'm confident we can get through most of it in two whole weeks. I'm a bit excited--I have a rotisserie oven for a turkey and I'm dying to try it out. It did a bang up job on cornish hens, and I imagine the turkey will be great. Now to get over my aversion to giblets so I can face the gravy!
Why not let Grace unpack some of the boxes herself, and organize things? So what if you have to redo the organization? She'll feel like she helped unpack, and if she can organize things, that'll be a teaching lesson. Maybe a box of book- have her sort them alphabetically. That should take a while! :)
ReplyDeleteWell, her room is in limbo currently. We are getting her a new bed and waiting for it to come because I'd rather not unpack/sort stuff twice. And she needs a bookcase in her room. And she has so many little items that need to be sorted (and in many cases, tossed out) that I don't think we'd get very far before she gets frustrated. She had a great playdate today at the park with 5 of our good friends. And tomorrow she has another playdate, plus American Heritage Girls, plus Dance class, so that should give me some time to dig out her stuff and get her setttled. But organizing books--not a bad idea. She organizes the DVDS for us, too.
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