OK, OK, I'll post!

We're here! We've been in the house about a month, but only had dial up for the first few weeks. No way in the world was I going to try to do anything beyond check email and bank accounts on dial up. Now we've got DSL, and we're good.

Life has been hectic since we moved in. The girls are back in school, and it's a struggle. Even though I got them caught up during homeschool last year to where they should have been in the DoDDS system, they're still really behind here. So homework takes forever. They're also enrolled in soccer. I'M A SOCCER MOM IN A MINI-VAN!!! My BIL says I should get a soccer ball tattooed on my butt, because, "Soccer moms kick ass!" :D We have practices on Monday and Friday evenings for Catey, and Friday evening and Sunday afternoons for Bethany. Soccer games on Saturdays, thank God they're at the same field. I'm praying that the games will be close to each other in times, so we're not having to stay the whole day at the field on the other side of town. Oh, and random scrimmages in there too. ERGH.

So we got here on August 14, and two weeks later the in-laws came down for a visit. On the day our stuff from storage was delivered. So they helped us unpack, then we painted the living room. It's greeeeeeeeeen in here, I love it. (Pictures to come soon, I promise.) It was a long weekend, rough at times (my FIL and I aren't exactly the best of friends), but good in the long run. Cindy brought me half a garden worth of veggies, YUM.

The week after they left, our unaccompanied baggage was delivered. Mostly bedding, dishes, towels, cookware. Had I known that the last of our stuff isn't going to be delivered utnil OCTOBER 19 (sob) I'd have sent more. Yes, that's right, October 19. We packed out on August 5. Our furniture is on the slow boat to China by way of Antarctica.

LAST week, we got a call on Wednesday that Grandpa Jim, my MIL's father, had taken a bad fall, broken his right femur, and almost died en route to the hospital. So after a quick pow-wow, Brian and I decided to make a quick weekend trip up to Iowa to see Grandpa. We haven't been up to Iowa in four years, it was time. It was a great weekend, but LONG. Grandpa is doing much better, and was even moved to a nursing home near the VA hospital yesterday. And hey, Iowa beat Iowa State, so Grandpa was in a great mood. To make his mood even better, he FINALLY got to meet his first great-grandson. Two peas in a pod, they are! :D

So we're home now. We got home really late Tuesday night, and I'm still exhausted. I've been running ever since we got home. Doctor on Wednesday morning, vet yesterday morning, DirecTV today. (Yay, we have more than three channels!!) Add that to trying to get the house cleaned up, the suitcase unpacked, laundry caught up, and trying to get Matt into a better mood. Oh, and I started digging the sod out of the front flower bed, so we can get some black dirt tilled into the clay and I can finally get my hostas in the ground. I'm ready to crash! But I can't, because we have two soccer practices tonight, at the same time, in different places.


Now that we're home and shouldn't be going anywhere again for a while, I'll be able to blahg more. Theoretically.