I apologize for no pictures! I will have pictures later this week. We currently don't have internet set up and have to hotspot our phones, so I don't have a way to back up all the pictures from my phone...or at least, I don't know how to.
Sorry also, for the sabbatical. It has been a lot of work moving in and I had so much to do, I was a little overwhelmed.
A few highlights...
We have been snowed in three times since we moved in. Once we ALMOST made it out to the road to get Audra to dance and high centered about three feet from the plowed road. My brother-in-law pulled us out. James spends a lot of his time in the backhoe digging us out...and another snowstorm is headed this direction.
I'm learning a lot about building a fire at 3am in the wood stove. I learned words like kindling, and log cabin and suffocating and lots of other words that either helped or hindered my fire-building.
I am SO happy that I can get up early in the mornings again...it wouldn't have been polite to go rummaging around someone else's house at 5:30, but I am up at 5:30 almost every day now and I get so much more accomplished!
I'm a little stressed out that the upstairs is still saw-dust and half finished wood-floors and the downstairs needs to be painted, but I have worked around it to make a very comfortable home.
Boring of borings, I am LOVING my laundry room and my laundry routine. I'll share my laundry tips in another post. With seven kids and often several visitors at a time, we go through many loads, but I have learned to love it and make it very efficient.
I have a dog...don't judge, I'm not an animal person, but I do like him. He's a good boy. He's a white husky with blue eyes. He sleeps in a crate in our garage and then plays outside most of the time, chasing kids on snowmobiles, then comes and gets lazy by the fire for a little while. I hate that he's always bringing trash onto my porch from the fire pit.
And last of all, and kind of funny, we went on a snowmobiling date the other day! Not characteristic of me at all! I remember thinking to myself...this is not sexy attire for a date! My husband knows me well, and even though I never said it out loud, he said, "I like you in snow pants...you don't always have to be wearing heels."
It's not that I'm a really prissy girl that has to be wearing the new styles all the time and have her finger nails painted...I'm not! I do like to have my toenails painted though, and I like girly things and girly clothes, so pulling on a suit that makes me look like a giant, purple and black snowman, was not like me.
I had SO much fun though. I even learned to kind of maneuver the snowmobile using my body while standing up. Again, I did not feel very girly at all! In fact, it was a little embarrassing when we had to try and make it up a very long, steep hill and I was riding the kids' snowmobile and had to go up in front of James and my brother-in-law...they wanted to make sure I didn't get stuck...I felt so stupid. Then we had to go down the other side and it was so steep, it looked like a roller coaster. If they hadn't made me feel so nervous about "pumping my breaks, and taking it easy, and riding it all the way down and not panicking," I might not have been so scared, but I begged James to let me slide down on my butt, but then the snowmobile would have been stuck at the top. So, I had no choice. In the end, I really enjoyed it and I think (unless he's just making me feel good) I did a pretty good job of keeping up. I only got stuck once. Did I mention...I find snowmobiling men to be very attractive...just James ;)
I will post pictures and updates and laundry tips as soon as we get internet going!
Have a nice week and...I hope you had a Happy Valentine's Day. I think it's a boring holiday, but I do get extra special house projects done on that day. That's my love language, after all.
