Our second week here was busy much like the first week was. The unpacking was completed but many chores were waiting in a queue to be accomplished. We were grateful that our home sold in just three days on the market and we closed on it just before leaving but we still had plenty of unfinished details to wrap up with other moving related items. We had a vehicle for sale that did sell last week so were able to remove that from our car insurance policy. We are still in the middle of working out cancelling our cobra coverage that extended Jonathan's health insurance coverage until our Tennessee policy took effect. We have been paying off final bills for things and closing Virginia accounts and finally got Jonathan's IRA set up to roll his 401K...all of this around the kids and his school work. Things have been crazy with paperwork and phone calls to be sure. (It is not all finished yet...we still have to change our licenses and tags and title on our van).
Our washing machine wasn't working properly either so we got a new one this past week...before that we were taking our laundry upstairs to a vacant apartment unit to do. We are thankful to have the ability to do our laundry right here in the kitchen...with four children there is plenty of it to do. Our oven was a pretty big mess so I cleaned it once but actually it needs further attention tomorrow. The chores are coming to an end though as far as special ones due to moving in.
We visited Costco and purchased an annual membership and stocked up on a few things. The kids really loved the free samples and our grocery trip was quite pleasant. Our pantry is full and I have been experimenting with a few meatless meals to help budget well. We also enjoyed a few old favorites this past week. Having a kitchen again is so nice.
Much of my homeschool curriculum arrived this past week and I spent several hours organizing it on our shelves. I always place book titles in week order and that takes quite a while. I still have math curriculum arriving that will be time consuming to organize but every other subject has arrived. I am so excited about this school year and all the things that we will be studying. I have also been writing out lesson plans and reading the first of our books that we will read aloud.
Jonathan's logic class ended last Friday. He made an A in the class. It was 60 hours in the classroom, many hours of reading and studying, and pages of problems worked out. He enjoyed the first class very much but it is definitely a lot of work. He was up early to slip in an hour of studying, often fitting a couple of hours in during nap/rest time, and then a couple more after the children go to bed each evening. He is quickly getting to know the other students and today he began his next course that will last for two weeks.
Like last week, this week was not without difficult moments. The 4th of July was a little hard because rain cancelled a cookout we had been invited to attend and we ended up having sandwiches instead. The kids were pretty bummed because we always get together with family back home and they were talking about missing people. Our cookout was postponed though and the day after we enjoyed good food and fellowship...the kids had a blast playing outside with friends.
I was really missing the mountains of home this week. Rain really cooled things off back home and friends kept posting misty mountain photos. Here rain seems steamy rather than misty and seems to occur right during events we want to be at but no other time. We have found a lot of beauty here though. We visited a pond with lily pads and a greenway attached and really enjoyed our walk there. We also visited the botanical gardens here this past Saturdy and they were amazing.
All in all, it was a good second week and we are looking forward to our third week.
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