Unfortunately nowhere feels like home right now; not here, not there not really anywhere. It's such an awful feeling and I can't wait to feel grounded and settled again ( Read more... )

I packed the china from my antique china cabinet today.  Seeing how bare and empty my house is looking makes me a little sad and makes this move very, very real.  Jack did a course for work today and was home by supper time and did some yard work.  While he clipped and raked, I put corn on the cob, roasted potato wedges and chicken on the barbecue ( Read more... )

I often find myself mentally composing an LJ update but I just don't make the time to put fingers to keys.  So, in bits and pieces ( Read more... )

* attended Charlotte's kindergarten grad ( Read more... )

More packing today - Jack and I tackled our bedroom and packed up anything we wouldn't need for the next few weeks.  We took pictures of the walls on the main floor except for Abby's - not ready to do that just yet ( Read more... )

Summer doesn't really start with the May long weekend, nor does it really start at the summer solstice, it begins as soon as the kids pick up their report cards and the community pool starts it's summer hours.  We're almost there ( Read more... )

* CPR recert.  It annoyed me when some of the other participants made jokes while doing heart compressions on their baby CPR doll ( Read more... )

It seems redundant to say that life is busy, but it really REALLY is.  To catch up on things ( Read more... )

Today we removed the conditions on the offer to purchase our new home and although I was relieved to know that our purchase was now official, my heart broke a little too.  This was our first home, we welcomed three new babies here, I gave birth here twice, I've spent 13 of our 21 years of my marriage here, we've seen Kim grow from a gap-toothed 7 ( Read more... )

June 1st hit me hard this year for some reason.  I was at a birth that day and I actually caught myself start to write "2006" when I was writing the date on the charts.  It's the month of Abby's 7th birthday and Angelversary.  So unbelievable that its been that long!  I'll be baking a cake next Sunday and lighting seven candles ( Read more... )