Summer Round-Up

I don't know when life isn't "busy" but this summer seems to have been super busy.  Here's the Round-up since the Fourth of July.

 

July 11th was moving day, however, we couldn't move in without a final hurrah.  The night before the carpet was to be installed (which was the day before move in), James was doing touch up paint when he stepped in a puddle in the laundry room.   He soaked up water and concluded it was something to do with the condensate pipe so he shut everything down.  I was saying my prayers when he got to Mom and Dad's that night about midnight, and I looked up to a face that was almost in tears.  It felt like a punch in the gut. 

 

We didn't change our plans though, the repair is yet to come.  Now we're calling this place "home."  It's felt like a cross between staying at hotel, playing house, and camping. (We are still trying to find all our kitchen gadgets in the garage of boxes and had to eat spaghetti one night without any sauce because we couldn't find a can opener.)  Rex and Lyle still ask when we load up in the van and we are elsewhere, "Are we going home or to our new house?"

Then, not skipping a beat, our washer came out of storage not working and of course I was packing to go to on vacation for 10 days.  Never to disappoint, James got it working again with a part off $40 part which he got for $5 off Amazon.  You da man!

Our first dinner was exciting and a little surreal.