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In the midst of the chaos recently we figured it would be a fine time to transition Josiah to a toddler bed and out of his crib.  This decision was made mostly due to the fact that the crib was a bit large for the new room and also since he had recently figured out how to climb out of it…  so the combination of those two negatives made the decision easy.

And he loves his new bed!

The first night he thought it was really funny to keep coming back out of his room to give “one more goodnight kiss” for about 6 times in a row, but since then he’s done REALLY well.

We arrived home from our TN trip last night just after 8:00. It gave us just enough time to unpack the car, let the kids play with Tim, run to the new house for a teaching outfit for today (all of our clothes have been moved now), put the kids to bed and then collapse into bed myself. For some reason our house has developed a strange, not pleasant, smell while I was gone (I know what you’re thinking, and NO it’s not the smell of a man who has been living like a bachelor… 😉 it’s more like the smell of old stale cigarette smoke, which is REALLY STRANGE since that’s pretty much impossible…) anyway, I’ve been cleaning and scrubbing things to make sure the smell is going away. Ugh.

I had such a fantastic vacation with the kids and my family (more on that later!)…. but today is a little overwhelming. I’m teaching all day today, we’re moving the rest of our stuff to the house tomorrow, then on Thursday I clean out this house and by Thursday night we’ll be sleeping in our new place. whew!

I spent the morning at the new house getting the yard more presentable.  It still has a ways to go (LOTS of weeds to pull, and I’ll need to go back to mow it on a lower setting…) but it’s starting to look nicer.  The kids had a really great time playing in the yard and on the back deck.

I need to go back and take some real pictures–so far the only ones have been documenting the exact state that the house was when we moved in.  This is the only “real” picture I have…

Happy to have a new temporary house!

Today is the day I started looking at rental properties.

*Gulp*

This isn’t quite where we wanted to be at this point in time, but I also want to be sure we are willing to go where God’s will is for us. And at this point that means looking into finding something to rent while we wait for the right house to either drop in price or appear on the market.

So I started looking into our options.

And then I freaked out MAJORLY.

And stopped looking for now. 🙂

No worries… I know God has a plan.  So, for now I will let the search rest for the night and hope that our perfect house will appear soon.

We were able to bring Dende home last night. He is still extremely lethargic, but starting to perk up a little more. We were able to get him to eat a treat and I think he even had a sip of water this morning. Time will tell……..

Tim took Dende to the emergency vet this morning and they are keeping him for the day at the pet hospital to monitor him. He hasn’t had anything to eat or drink for a day and a half, so he’s dehydrated. He’s been excessively lethargic and is pooping blood. They said they couldn’t diagnose him one way or the other with him being so dehydrated, so after the pump fluids back into him they’ll be able to figure out more. Unfortunately we are at a tough point having to balance a lot of variables: wanting to keep him around, knowing he’s getting older, already having lymphoma, money being tight and then batting with the whole “he’s just a dog” but also part of our family… They did say he has a fever so that would indicate an infection, but again we don’t know much.

We said goodbye to him this morning just in case… 🙁

Today is Josiah’s birthday–unfortunately I don’t have any cute pictures to share with you yet because we’re going to have cupcakes when we meet to pick up Chloe tomorrow… so tune back in for pictures!

On Saturday we took care of the hand rail.  Ah, the hand rail…  the annoying, expensive and hopefully not too hard project.

Well, I’m happy to show you the finished product!  Schnazzy, eh?

It actually only took 2 trips to the hardware store, 1 afternoon and zero angry spouses.  🙂  It was tedious, but pretty straight forward.  And it feels good to have that project done.  And hopefully THAT will be the last project on this house.  FOR REAL this time……..

I’m too tired and lazy to actually write what we did the past couple of days, but I have just enough energy to post some pictures.  Tee-hee!  🙂

We’ve already been having tons of fun this summer!  Here’s a few of our recent activities which include:  making s’mores for the first time, going to the beach, and eating “Mountain Dew Fudge” given to us as a gift.  Tomorrow we’re headed to the zoo.  I’ll be sure to take some more pictures!