Life’s a Dance

Indiana is COLD!!

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Wahooo!!! We had record highs in Georgia this week, so I am thrilled with IN being cold! I’d like 23 inches of snow like we got in 2004 but that isn’t likely to happen.

Our drive here was incredible. I think something came in & possessed my child–she sat for SIX HOURS (slept 1.5 of that) before needing to get out of the car. Wasn’t watching a movie. I wasn’t back there with her. I wasn’t interacting with her anymore than I do when I’m driving that trip alone. She wasn’t reading. She played with very few toys. Mostly she just sat back there talking and, briefly, playing with her babies. I’m lucky if I can drive two hours w/o needing to stop. I have NO idea what got into her but it did make the drive go by SO quickly!! We stopped for lunch and then we were in IN by mid-afternoon (we expected to arrive closer to bedtime!).

Thursday evening we went out to my mom’s for a little while. Yesterday morning we left E with Jim’s parents so we could finish up Christmas shopping & go to lunch. Its a fun treat to eat w/o having to tend to a little one. Then we went up to my dad’s last night. My sister & niece came down, also. The girls had a grand time playing together & with their grandpa. They ran many, many laps around the house looking for the cat (no luck!). I think my dad was going to beat the girls to bed last night–he looked exhausted!!
This afternoon we’re going to my mom’s house & then out to my aunt’s for Christmas w/my grandpa. Tomorrow we have Christmas w/my mom in the afternoon & Christmas with my grandma in the evening. Monday is Christmas w/the in-laws in the morning & with my dad in the afternoon. Tuesday we’re heading home.

Merry Christmas!

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To: Tricia, Jim & E

Merry Christmas!!

From: the U.S. Army

What news! Jim called last Friday to let me know that he had been over to the shipping office. Our goods have LEFT Germany and are on their way to Georgia!!! The shipment is expected by December 13 and could possibly be there even earlier. (Guess what we’ll be doing over Jim’s Christmas break??!) 6-8 weeks is the expected time frame and the 13th would be eight weeks. Maybe I’ll get a birthday present from the army! Mom’s coming down that weekend, so she would get the pleasure of helping me unpack! Eight months and many, many miles later, I finally believe we might actually see our goods again. Crawling into bed that night will be amazing!!

You Know You Aren’t in the Northwest Anymore When…

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The rock station on the radio breaks into Scripture.  And the country station into prayer.

Someone named Sissy Doll is on a local TV commercial

The gubernatorial candidate has a TV commercial where he proudly stands behind his support of the death penalty.

NBC shows the 700 Club…during the day.

Dr. James Dobson/Focus on the Family has a TV commentary every morning.

Oops!

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I forgot to post that we were leaving for Georgia! (I’ll post more about the trip another time.) We’re here! We are moved into our new apartment. Its nice but smaller (2-bedroom) than what we wanted. Availability for a 2-bedroom was immediate while the 3-bedrooms had a wait of 1-3 weeks. We didn’t want to live out of a hotel for that long in addition to the two weeks we already had, so we took the smaller unit.

If you want my new e-mail/address/phone information, e-mail me.  For obvious reasons, I don’t want to post that here!

Two Week Countdown

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We’re down to our final days here!  Two weeks from today, I’ll be flying to Indiana to drive down to Georgia (DH’s parents are helping him drive our cars to Georgia).  I’ll meet them there that Sunday or Monday.  I’m driving their car down so they have a way to get home.  I am SO grateful that they can do this.  Traveling with Elizabeth in a car for nine hours sounds SO much better than 42 hours!

I am ready to leave her.  I know I will be sad about it since it is where we started our military life together and where Elizabeth was born.  That part will for sure make me sad.  But I’ve emotionally separated from here already.  And I’m excited to explore someplace new. (I gotta’ keep telling myself that so I’ll stay focused on the positives of this!!)