Home Again

Hubby's week long conference finally ended today.  It was sad to leave the hotel with all of its amenities (I love having someone make my bed!) and fun activities, like pool time or playing in the kids' sandbox.  I can't believe I failed at getting pictures so completely.  I was a bit depressed about it yesterday as I packed everything up.  I was quite happy to realize, though, that when we came home this morning, this house actually felt like home and I was glad to be back.  I didn't expect such emotions, especially since Florida is not my favorite place.  Turns out that time really is key, and no matter how much I dislike where we move to at the beginning of a PCS, somewhere along the line my heart catches up with my circumstances and feelings of home and belonging do grow.  I think I will miss this place when we leave and I'm glad for that.

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Insert Jazzy Title (summary of the past two weeks or so)

The time, it flies.

Between the home study in 10 days, going to see my parents sans computer for 10 days, and being sick for the past two weeks, I am yet again waaaaaay behind on this here blog.

Le sigh.

Many times through the past couple of weeks I've thought to myself, "I need to blog that!" only to not blog at all.  

I will try to summarize the insanity for your reading pleasure:

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Ready or Not & a Detox update

Home study visit from the social worker is on Friday, the exact time not hammered out yet.

The microwave died last night and we got permission to replace it from the owners of the house, so now we just have to go by the thing and install it.

After hitting the house hard on Friday and Saturday, things are looking up and I think we'll be ready.  I still have a long laundry list of things to do, but they are more cosmetic than anything.

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Full Steam Ahead

Wow, what a crazy last few days it has been.

My head is still spinning.

As of right now, we are back active with our adoption agency, we have signed with a home study agency, and we have begun attacking the paperwork monster.

I have started cleaning the house from top to bottom, again, in order to whip it into shape for the home inspection part of the study, which will hopefully be next Friday - a week from tomorrow.  So far only the living room and hubby's half of the master bedroom is done.  So I have quite the task ahead of me.  How do things get this messy so fast?

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