So, I guess its about time for an update, if anybody reads this thing anymore. Man, I really need to get a new user pic. Well, hopefully in about 2 months I will be able to communicate electronically again, and I can get back in the loop ( Read more... )

Once again, it has been a long time. I actually had access to the Internet several times over the holidays, as we spent a lot of time at Andrew's brother's house with his family, but I never got to it. We had a great time with them over Christmas and a spectacular time with my folks at a lake house in South Carolina over New Year's. It was so ( Read more... )

Its been a while since I got the chance to post - we still don't have Internet access, and with Andrew traveling and working, I very seldom get to the library. HE has been on interviews at 6 schools in the last two months. So far, he has 3 acceptances and right now his first choice is University of Virginia, and 2nd is University of Loiusville, KY ( Read more... )

Today was my second day alone with the boys, as Andrew started teaching highschool geometry yesterday. Andrew is fed up with the teaching already, but hey, its a job! It has been going pretty well at home. I find myself getting irritated easily when I am trying to feed Austin and Jack is climbing all over me, pointing out all of the baby's body ( Read more... )

We are now a family of four! Austin Richard was born last Wednesday, August 22, at 11:37am, via C-section. He was 8 lbs, 8 oz, and 19 3/4 inches long. He has quite a bit of brown hair, and dark eyes. He has a much pinker skin tone than Jack, but I think he may have Andrew's Asian eyes. He is so sweet and adorable. We have had a little bit of ( Read more... )

So, I finally made it to the library today and got a library card. Thus, I can finally check my e-mail and journal. It is the smallest library I have ever been in, but it is better than reading all of my own books over and over and over. We also finally got a phone book yesterday. It is the smallest phone book I have ever seen. It is about 3/4 of ( Read more... )

So, here we are in North Carolina. We have been here about 3.5 weeks now, and I think we are settling in. It has been really interesting. Let me just start by saying that the town we live in has 2 stoplights. And the neighborhood we live in is not white. This being the South, that pretty much leaves just one option. At first we were a little ( Read more... )

This will most likely be my last post for a while, as the computer is going into the moving van tonight. I think we are almost packed. For a little while I thought we weren't going to make it. We started packing pretty late in the week (first box wasn't packed until Thursday morning), and I am sick with a cold or something, and Andrew's mom, who ( Read more... )

I finished working on my friend's apartment today. I think it went pretty well. As I said, I didn't take before pictures, but here are some of the afters ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got started on decorating the apartment that I mentioned in the previous post. These things never go as well as I envision, but it went pretty well. I slip-covered an ottoman, made curtains and a cushion and began work on a lamp-shade that I hope to finish today. That leaves slip-covering a chair (scary - I have never done that before. ( Read more... )