Moving and Stuff

Did I blog about this? We received Dan's RFO (request for orders) two weeks ago. Orders have not shown up yet. After several phones, we have been promised "two more weeks." Every other base has done them in less than a week. It's annoying. Anyway, we've been watching for rental houses and drove down a week and a half ago to look at a house. It's ours July 1st. Of course, with no orders, that means no movers can be scheduled, and no notice on our current house can be given. We might be the renters of two houses for a few weeks. Argh. I have to paint and there will be yard work and fence building to do. It'll be weird to go from an established wooded neighborhood to a new subdivision with not a single tree in our yard. The house is really nice and huge. Allie is especially excited as her bedroom could double as a walk-in closet now. There's even a finished basement for Daisy.

If You Could See Her Now

We dolled Allie up for her recital pictures today. Beautiful and so grown up. Where did my baby girl go?

Lazy Sunday

I'm sitting on my front porch with the sun warming my feet. Gracie is snoozing under my chair. Dan is throwing a football to Allie and Caden on our little private drive and Jaelyn is stretched out writing sentences (the only fly in my honey). I'm going to miss our porch and little private drive. I'll also miss the walk around our lake behind our house. We've enjoyed watching the baby ducks playing while mama looks on protectively. I think that's where my list of things we'll miss ends. We are driving to Charlottesville tomorrow to look at a house. I'm ready for our next adventure to start. It's time.

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This and That

I can't believe it is May 15th.  Where has the year gone?  Seriously, where?  Dan emailed me his RFO (that's request for orders for you non-military folk).  We have only been waiting on it since February. It's officially official.  We are moving to Charlottesville, VA for the next 3 years.  Orders should come next week.  I guess that means the house hunt needs to move into gear.  I hate this part of moving.  Our report date is Aug 25 and he can report 30 days earlier if we want.  It gives us a good window for finding something.

Jaelyn and I are ready to wind down the school year.  I'm tired.  She's now doing whatever lesson she wants on Study Ladder or IXL for math and Language Arts.  We finished her second huge level in spelling today.  I am going to give her the placement test again to check her progress and then spelling might become games of scrabble and boggle.  We'll keep reading going.  We are currently in the middle of A Wrinkle in Time.  It's a great book that somehow I missed when I was young.  We have 3 more chapters in her science book and we are in the middle of the American Revolution in her second social studies book.  We are working on descriptive stories in writing and I hope to complete the narrative portion before the end of the year.  Next week will be full on test prep for the SAT-10 she has to take the week after.  The other two also have weeks of SOLs coming up.  It looks like the 4th quarter is looking up for Allie.  3rd quarter was hard with her teacher gone a lot.  She had almost straight Cs.  I have seen nothing lower than a B and lots and lots of A - Well Done's coming home.

Dan is deep in thesis writing mode.  He has about 5 1/2 weeks until it's due.  June 25 will be a very wonderful day!

Blogger messed up again.

I posted pictures of quilts yesterday. Here's what I wrote about them that didn't get posted.

I am having so much fun with Daisy. So far, we've quilted my moms family heirloom atrocious quilt, my sweet Love baby quilt with a stippled hearts (which I'm happy sad that I sold because I love it so much, but I made it to sell), and I finished another quilt that I absolutely love. I stippled and made pebbles on in alternating sections. I can't wait to wash it to see how good it pulls in and puffs up. Next up is Dan's Boba Fett quilt.

Today's pictures are the quilt top I just finished for Jaelyn's bed. I still have to make a pillow sham. The second is a project Jaelyn learned about last week...flower pounding. We had fun making pictures. I can't wait to turn it into a project.

Daisy is Awesome

She's Here

I have lots of pictures from outings lately (Dan took the weekend of to play with us), but I'll be too busy because Daisy came today. Isn't she pretty????

Yea and Boo

I've been tracking my sewing machine daily. It was out for delivery yesterday (a day early) and I was so excited. The UPS man came about 2:30 with 2 of the 3 packages. He was not helpful at all when I questioned him about package 3. A call to UPS gave me the tracking number for the 3rd package and we waited all day today for it to arrive. I spent the morning assembling the frame so I'd be ready. And boo, package 3 was the carriage for the sewing machine. I called the company and they gave me a 4th tracking number. Argh. Turns out my sewing machine shipped 4 days after the frame. It won't be here until Monday. I'm so bummed. I had major sewing plans for this weekend.