First Day of Work

Well lots of people are wondering what's going on with us and this seems easier to write here instead of spending hours and hours on the phone since there's not much free time there days.

We made our official move to TN on Friday. We finally got to see our townhouse. We were very pleasantly surprised at what we found when we got here. God truly blessed us with what we have. We have a huge living room and dining room, the kitchen is a lot bigger than any I've had and I have a pantry. We have a separate laundry room which is nice as well. All of our bedrooms are upstairs which I love and hate at the same time.

Isaac has taken over the house pretty much. He has his own little closet under the stairs where his toys are kept and he has learned how to open the door and get them out when he wants them. He's mastered the stairs and he can get up and down them walking without holding on to anything. He's just getting so big.

Noah is getting way to big. I'm a little emotional about him tonight. He's completely mastered sitting up now and can sit in the floor for several minutes and play with Isaac. He loves playing with his big brother. Isaac can almost always make him laugh. A big old belly laugh usually. Noah is also cutting his first tooth. I can't believe it. He's getting so big so quick. I feel like my baby is growing out of that baby stage way too quick.

I started my new job yesterday. It was kind of overwhelming but exciting as well. I am the Registration Coordinator in the Scheduling Center at Middle Tennessee State University. Basically I am going to be setting up classes for student to register and for departments, scheduling classrooms and department events as well as deal with registration issues and troubleshooting problems. There's a lot of work to do, but the nice thing is I can focus on one aspect of registration. I started on the first day of registration this year and had to laugh. They kept saying it was SO busy. They didn't even have a student come in the office until an hour after we opened. They saw at the most 150 students yesterday. I almost died laughing talking about how busy they were. At LU, we saw 150 students in the first 1/2 of registration. So it will be nice getting used to a little but slower pace when it comes to registration.

Bill is adjusting to being home with the boys. He is doing a GREAT job. Yesterday he did laundry, unpacked boxes, took care of the boys and got dinner ready to the point that all I had to do is cook it. Today he was home with two sick boys (Isaac has a cold and Noah has a cold as well as getting his first tooth). They cried most of the day and Bill was still sane when I came home. He even got the laundry done, the house picked up and dinner done when I came home. He is wonderful.

Please continue to pray for us. Our journey isn't quite over yet. We still have lots of adjustments to handle. The main one is the time adjustment. We basically lost 2 hours because we are on central time and the time change. The boys are getting up about 5:00 am because they still think it's 7:00. We also have a lot of adjusting to do getting use to our new "normal" of me working and Bill caring for the boys.

God will supply everything we need and we know it.

House Pictures

Well we made it to TN! We drove through snow and ice to get here and woke up to 26 degrees this morning. But we're here, everything's in our house and the moving truck has been returned!

I don't have much time, but here's a link to pictures of our house! We love it. It's much bigger than we imagined!