rain on tulips

The house-buying is moving forward; signing scheduled for next Friday. My shoulder is feeling better; still have a few days left of a prescription anti-inflammatory for tendonitis for a pulled tendon. Packing/cleaning/dumpstering is going but much more slowly than I had hoped. CC’s preschool evaluations are finished; waiting to hear if he’ll qualify to start preschool at EK’s school. EK’s been down with a cold, missed some school; she seems pretty much back to herself today, so I’ll send her back to school tomorrow. The other kids are busy with school and church and getting excited about moving. DA keeps reminding me that he hasn’t gotten to see the new house at all yet. Maybe he’ll just be surprised!? He performed with the orchestra last night during the sixth grade orientation at the Junior High, and was excited when he got home because his solo worked out well, and he was congratulated by his teacher. He’s really loving the opportunity to play guitar in the orchestra! I’ve been knitting — finished a pair of socks for Fuul, a pair of fingerless gloves for me, and I’m working on a cropped cardigan and a lace shawl right now; mostly the knitting is reserved for late-night, after the kids are in bed unwinding. Oh, and my swap package from TN finally arrived… filled with some great yarn, a pretty pink knit shawlette, stuff for the kids, hot cocoa, some great candies, a cool pen, and a fancy journal! Once I’m through with the moving, I’ll have to get busy using all that stuff! I did something to my left knee yesterday, and now there’s a tendon or something underneath my kneecap that HURTS and keeps popping whenever I straighten or bend it, and so that’s slowing me down, too. Because I needed something else in my path.

Ten more minutes to browse my email, then I’ve got to suck up the pain and get moving on the day. Laundry and cleaning and packing and some grocery shopping await, plus all the regular activities that happen around here. I’m gonna need a vacation when all of this is over!

I picked up my bag over the back of the seat of the truck, and I think I pulled something in my shoulder… wait… I *know* I pulled something in my shoulder. It hurts. It hurts when I move, or when I don’t move, or when I think about moving.

Its my right shoulder. Ugh.

make it stop

I’m pretty certain that the people who write up the financial information for trying to purchase a home are speaking some kind of gobbledygook language — and that each office you go to is speaking their own different dialect, so you can’t even compare the two. Fuul keeps trying to ask me which one of two different options I think we ought to go with, and the more he tries to understand it and explain it to me, the more I think we should just find a nice clean cave and move in there… anyone know of a vacant cave available for occupancy???

(Oh, and the bank thinks they’re giving us a shiny-enough deal as it is without doing any touch-ups on the house; they say take it as is or don’t take it; *sigh*.)

Earnest money has changed hands. Fuul is out watching the inspection right now. It looks as though we may have a new address sometime in March.

Me? I’m wavering regularly between total excitement and abject terror. What else is new!?

GC turned eight while she was at her Grandma’s house over Christmas break, so she wasn’t baptised right away, so when a stake baptism was scheduled for last night, we were there and ready!

Her dad baptised her, and she was confirmed in church this morning. She was really happy about it, and was pleased that her Grandma and Grandpa and one uncle from Oregon were able to come up for the weekend as well. Lots of her favourite primary teachers and music leaders were there to support her, also. She got her first set of scriptures (imprinted with her full name — yes, it fit!) with a pink case, a micro-mini CTR ring on a necklace, and a CTR wristband bracelet.

I can’t believe its been already five of the kids baptised… how can life move so fast when some days it simply crawls by!?