The final day of 2005. It was a big year, a stressful year, and a fun year.. and we’re all looking forward to a new start in 2006. Since we have the rest of our lives to go out on New Years, we’ll be ringing in the New Year at home with the boys. We …
Yearly Archive: 2005
Dec 28
The Aftermath
Santa was very good to the boys this year. Three days after Christmas, we are still finding homes for all the new toys, games, books, and craft supplies. Our first Christmas in Arizona went well… we listened to Christmas music, read our Christmas books, ate too many cookies, and played played played. Like most everything …
Dec 23
‘Twas Four Days Before Christmas
Four days before Christmas, and we went to the zoo! It was a strange and wonderful feeling to be walking around a zoo, enjoying the sunshine, less than a week before Christmas. It seemed a fitting thing to do for our first holiday season in Arizona. Stilllooking like tourists, we all went in short sleeves, …
Dec 20
It’s beginning to look a lot
…like Christmas. The tree is trimmed, the presents are wrapped, we’ve all had colds, andwe’ve watched The Grinch. Our projects for today were to cleanthe house, and get started on our cookies. In the interest ofsimplifying, I was only going to make one kind this year, but majorityruled. Oreo balls were first, followed by a …
Dec 17
Desert Run
Mike and Mich took off for the day for a run through the desert today. It was something he’d been dying to do since we got here, and he wasn’t disappointed. In fact, I think the comment he made was “It’s worth living in Arizona just to be able to do that.” They were gone …
Dec 12
A new kind of church
We tried a new church yesterday, and it was unlike any church we’d ever been to. As we walked from the car(once we’d finally found a place to park) to the information center, I was trying very hard not to point or comment to loud; already feeling like we had a glaring sign on our …
Dec 10
Fractions and creature games
Yesterday was the first really “normal”-feeling, comfortable, happy day since we’ve moved in. The boys are adjusting, and we’re getting into a rhythm again. We’ve been unpacking box after box, and I’ve given a preference to the kids’ stuff, so that they’d feel at home as soon as possible. They found a fraction pizza game …
Dec 07
Making a house a home
Our main objective for the week – aside from continuing Mike’s job search – was to just keep on working on settling in. This has meant unpacking… lots and lots of unpacking… which is exciting for the kids. They’ve been rediscovering long-lost books, toys and games. Spencer spent the morning playing around with a How …
Dec 05
Adjusting
We’ve discovered that the transition to a new home (in a new city, in a new state, in a new part of the country no less) is very much a process. We were thinking that the boys were handling it very well, given the circumstances, and that it would just get better and better. In …
Dec 03
Just two good old boys
The other day, Mike and the boys were playing Grand Turismo, a racing game on Playstation,and one of them was racing a car like the General Lee on Dukes of Hazzard. Mike introduced them to the show, and they are hooked. The three of them have been watching it together twice a day for the …
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