Changing!

Sorry I have been so pathetic and haven't even cracked open the computer to write on here.  It still won't let me upload anything and I think that soon I am just going to dump blogger and find another option.  I love having the ability to write some things down, that will stay fresh for me and Levi as he gets older and I forget things, but I also really love the whole photo aspect of it, so it's worth it to find something that works.  These are all bold words for someone who hasn't even managed to crack the laptop open in the last two weeks!

 

In the last eight days, we have changed continents and hemispheres.  We have changed seasons (drastically) and time zones.  I bought a new phone, that I am still mystified as to it's full functioning.  The first time a friend called, I tried everything I could think of to answer the damn thing and failed, resorting instead to calling her back immediately afterwards to confess my inability to function in the technological age!  I have since discovered you have to take the green circle and sweep it across to the red circle or it won't answer.  No amount of poking at the the green circle will work, and you can take it from me, no amount of swearing at the phone while watching it ring works either!  At least the phone has coverage, which is a step up from my phone in Australia, that needed to be answered either up at the goose yard or out the back on the cubby.

 

I bought a new car.  OK, new to me.  It is a 2007 Honda Pilot and has a;ready been great.  I went into it all just needing AWD. cruise control and enough power to tow small things and came out of it with heated leather seats, a navigation system and a moonroof.  The thing that sold it to Levi was the charger for the back seat, so that when he was playing on the iPad back there, it wouldn't run out of battery.  I liked that it has separate heating/cooling controls for the back seat.  It all sounds fancy and would be a lot more impressive if the navigation system didn't keep trying to send me to Florida and the weather necessitated heated seats.  Still it will do what I need it to and will travel the Roseburg-Medford trip easily.

 

Yesterday, Robert and Ken came up to Roseurg to check out a house, that I subsequently put an offer in for that afternoon.  It is within a five minute walk from school, so close enough, Levi can walk home and get things he has forgotten during the day.  It is fenced enough for a dog without any work and is an easy house to just move straight into.  I went to the bank today and got confirmation this afternoon that I was preapproved, so all we are really waiting on now is to see if the offer is accepted.  In the meantime, Levi and I are staying in a hotel for the five days and will travel back to Medford after school Friday.  Hopefully I can find us somewhere to settle, because the transition has been hard on us all, but most of all on Levi.

 

Today was his first day at his new school and I got some great photos of him standing in front all proud.  He made it until lunch and then I got called to get him because his 'heart was heating up from the inside'.  It is as good a description of nervous indigestion as I have heard.  I sat with him at lunch to see if I could get him to stay, but he was too tired and too overwhelmed.  I think likely he is still pretty lagged, as I know I am. 

 

It has been a frantic frenetic week.  I hope it settles soon!

Packing

It continues to be pretty wild around here.  The company that is relocating some of our stuff is coming tomorrow afternoon and so my time has been, goodbye parties, packing and collapsing onto the couch.  As Blogger still won't let me load photos, I haven't bothered to come and update much.  There has been way too much other stuff going on!  I am just too tired tonight to pack more and not quite tired enough to go to bed early.  I think that sometimes there is so much to do it all blurs into one big thing.  I hope that I can get it all organized for transport tomorrow but frankly, don't really care if I don't!  Much of what I am taking is for sentimental reasons alone and I can always pick it up on subsequent visits back here. 

 

I had Mim here helping the other day.  Her job, and Levi's was to go through the toys and decide what was going and what he had either grown out of or lost the pieces to and put them in piles.  I looked over at one point to one huge pile and a modest little pile beside it.  I laughed because I assumed that the big pile was the 'take to USA pile' but instead it was the give/throw away pile.  Levi again amazed by his maturity, deciding that he could live without many of the toys.  His decisions were made easier by the fact that we are taking all the Lego and all the Playmobil, so he didn't need to sort that.  The best thing about all of that is when he complains that he can't find something and goes to get mad at me, I can remind him who in fact made all those decisions!

 

There is only nine days before we are going off on the big adventure.  Today was the last day that we would ever be at Samford State school and I had mixed feelings leaving it behind.  It has been a pretty good school but I am excited that Levi will have the chance to try something new.  He has some good friends behind it's gates but he will keep in touch with most of them!  The teachers from Vacation Care were definitely sad to see him go!