Hi Ladies!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted and I’m sorry for that! Things here have been weird and somewhat good at the same time! We’ve gotten some new furniture…leather couches…coffee table and end table. The funny thing is we haven’t really been watching that much TV. We spend most of our nights talking on the screened in porch. It’s really nice out there…and especially so when it rains! We have been having a lot of rain…or at least we think it’s a lot! They seem to think that there is a drought here…they don’t know what that is! When I tell people that we only had 3 inches of rain in a year their eyes nearly pop out!
I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July! We spent ours with some families of animation guys Scott knows…it was interesting. They were nice enough and it was a typical Fourth…fried chicken, hot dogs, watermelon, ice cream, fireworks…but it was really hard to enjoy myself…I missed being in CA and the usual things that we would do on the Fourth! The people were nice enough and I was “social” but not overly and I really didn’t want to get too involved! I guess it will be difficult for a while…or at least that’s what some dear friends have told me! The boys and Scott are doing fine, but I think it is more difficult for us…just too emotional!
So we’re slowly getting the house in order…I still have boxes and I’m wondering how much more stuff we could possibly have…I have already given 2 huge boxes to the Goodwill and I’m starting another pile of clothes…just amazing how much junk we have! We’re going through the house and trying to figure out what we want to fix up first…the kitchen is my number one priority (of course) and it really needs help! I have everything there put away and we could use a little more cabinet space, but I love that the screened in porch is right off of the kitchen. We eat out there for every meal. It’s so great to go out there first thing in the morning…especially when we wake up to rain! I love those mornings and wish you could all be there to smell the mornings…it’s also nice to have a glass of wine out there at night!
We are also trying to figure out what we’re going to do with the outside of the house…we had those trees removed and some ugly bushes that hid the house in the front yard! We have a bunch of weeds to pull out and need to reseed the front yard grass…on the upside the other day I pulled out the flag pole that was in front of our house! In fact, the people that owned the house before us must have been very patriotic because they had about 6 flag poles/stands/hangers for the flag! It came in handy on the Fourth…we were able to fly our flag, but it seemed like a little bit of overkill to me!
Comic-Con is next week and we’ll be flying to San Diego on the 24th! I can’t wait to be back in CA and doing something that is “normal” for us! We have been going every year for about 16 years and I can’t imagine missing a year! It will be nice to do something normal with all of the recent changes we’ve had going on!
So as I write this I am sitting in my living room watching CSI (which I can’t stand and never watch) so I can be “social” with my in-laws who have been staying with us for a week! The visit has been nice…seeing family and the boys are happy they are here…but it comes with work too…we have been visiting some sites in Nashville and trying to get things accomplished when we have time…I really need some more time to get stuff done…but I guess time will help that!
I put in an application for the boys to go to preschool in the Fall! I almost cried when I turned it in! I can’t believe they will both be going at the same time! What am I going to do when they are in school! I know, I know I will find things to do and the time will go by really fast…but come on…both of my boys will be going to school at the same time! It seems like I just was pregnant yesterday and now they can do everything on their own and they are so independent! Life moves so fast I just can’t believe it!
A good quote I read recently:
Can you imagine if we all woke up each morning with a smile and thought about how we had twenty-four more brand new hours that stood before us. And imagine that we vowed to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with compassionate eyes!!
Well…I guess I’d better get going and get to sleep at some point!
My love to you all!
Still missing you all and CA and wondering what the heck we’re doing here!
Donna
