we're finally getting settled in....

hey there everyone......(like very many people actually read this)......anyway, we are finally getting settled into our new house. We've decided we really like it and the neighborhood we live in. I can't wait until Christmas because I bet it's decorated up to the hilt! I won't have to go far to look at Christmas lights! It's an older neighborhood and its very well kept. I really like just driving down the streets and seeing the houses.

Jn is getting settled in at school, which is good. He's been quite busy with testing new students and then trying to sort thru the mountains of stuff his predecessor had from many years back. She was a pack rat and kept everything! Anyhow, we're trying to get him fixed up and his office decorated because then I can take my stuff and get settled into my room. It's smaller than a regular classroom because I'll see students on a one-on-one basis, like I do with tutoring. But its right next to the cafeteria. So far, Jn and I are both impressed that Sherwood has its stuff together......things like because we both get 50% off at church day camp, JEB goes for free.....we each got a laptop to use, lunches are free for teachers.....just little stuff like that. Cool huh??

Well not much else, just busy running to the store for other little things we decide we want to help make things more organized. I'll ck in later!

deb

I have my own computer!

well, I'm finally back to normal....I now have my own school computer. YEA!! I've never had a laptop before.....I must say it's sort of cool.



Well, JEB will start day camp at our church on Thursday....yippee! He so misses playing and stuff with other kids....the major downfall to having only one child. We found out that because both of us work at the school, we each get a 50% discount which brings it to ZERO dollars! YAY! So we (I) am going to take advantage of that over the next couple of weeks and take him to daycare so he can have some social contacts and get some of his energy out! I still have to register him for school (FRI) but he can get used to going to something organized again.

Slowly getting things unpacked and getting the pics on the walls, which makes it feel more like home. Jn is getting used to things in his office, we will decorate it one day next week when JEB is at daycamp.

Thanks for the prayers while we moved, now if I can adjust to Eastern Time Zone....way weird!

love ya all,
deb

we finally have internet!

Hey everyone....Mackenzie....who actually read my blog. We finally are connected to the internet! I feel semi-normal again! We are getting settled into our GA house...I'm actually down to putting books on bookshelves and pictures on the walls, so I guess that means we're unpacked. We had to go to Bham the last two days for a social security thing for JEB from when we were unemployed three years ago and coming back into GA made me feel good to be home. Jn is settling into his job....moving into his office and reconfiguring it and stuff. JEB will get registered at daycare and school this week, so I will start taking him to daycare maybe three days a week, so he'll have some "kid" contact and get ready to have a routine again. At our new school, teachers start Aug. 1st and school begins Aug. 8th. JEB's school begins Aug. 6th, so its not too long before he starts school.

All else is going well. I'll write more later!

lovve to everyone!

it's almost time...

hey everyone....its almost moving day. Today we had a lot of our friends come and help us load up the truck. Several of John's vball girls were here too. JEB had a blast playing and coloring with them all. One couple have two girls and so JEB was able to play mostly all morning, which allowed me to help direct the packing to the guys in the truck.

We went over to one of the couple's house for dinner....filet mignon, I might add and they had the vball team over to say goodbye and had a cake and all. It was very sweet and good for John. This is the hardest place to say goodbye. I'm quite sad about it. I'll miss church too! God must have some really great things planned for us....I can't wait to see what they are!

We'll officially leave Monday morning....one more trip to Cullman and PaPa's house tomorrow before we leave.

Keep us in your prayers!

Love to all!

well, it's official!

Well, we sent the deposit for the house in GA today and changed all the stuff over.....electric, gas, water, garbage, phone services, satellite and stuff....so that makes it official! This time next week, we'll be on our way to GA.

John still isn't sure about this move, but it's definitely God opening doors and showing us the way. I'm sort of looking forward to it....you know, getting to rearrange stuff and re-organize stuff, get a few new things for decorating and stuff. I'm just glad we both have a job. God will work out all of the other details as they come along. I will miss my church though. It took me quite a while to get used to it, very big, megachurch and several services and very contemporary music that I didn't know the words to, but I slowly got used to it and learned the songs and I love it now. But I know, God will help me fit into a slot at the church in GA.

Gotta get back to packing.....later!

I can't remember packing being this hard....

Hey there everyone......I simply have one question? When did packing a box become so hard to do?? My goodness! you'd think I was planning strategic war ops or something, but I'm having the hardest time figuring out how to pack a box!!! You'd think I was forgetting the reason for packing things in a box was simply to move it to a new location. Honestly!

I get a box all ready to go and then I stare at it! What foolishness and what a waste of time! I'm really going to try and be more efficient and get more done. Although, we really don't have that many things to pack.

When we left 4 yrs. ago and moved to the Cayman Islands, we purged everything! In fact, it took me two huge yard sales to get rid of it all! So we really have very little compared to that time, but oh my goodness, how we've accumulated already!

Well, at least I can't say I'm bored and have nothing to do!

Later.....I hear stuff calling me.

well, I now have something to do!

Hey there friends and family......it's now official, we are moving to Albany, GA. While this statement brings happiness that we both have a job, it also brings great sadness and grief that we must leave our home, church and friends here in Alabama. We both know that this is God at work and has a very specific design and reason for why HE wants us to be a part of the ministry at Sherwood. Both Jn and I are ok with moving, its just that we really like being where we are.....the house that is settled back into the woods of a dead end street and the people we rent from that live next door up a little hill are like family ( we keep their dog and cats and feed them!), the church we love being a part of (worship was awesome yesterday!), changing schools for JEB and getting all of that worked out, and of course, leaving the friends we've made these past three years!

Pray for us as we look for housing and try to get all of that stuff settled. Of course, this might be hard since we are trying to move in the next couple of weeks and be there so Jn can start on July 1st.

Well, at least I won't be bored for awhile!

Later....JEB has VBS this week! PRAISE GOD!!