Lots of changes over the last few days. Farmer J returned to work. I started my new job today. And the children started school yesterday. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
There was a great storm on Sunday night. I LOVED falling asleep to the sound of the wind ripping through the trees. I've forgotten what it sounds like to sleep in an upstairs bedroom. And the view from my bed is quite nice- looking into the middle and tops of trees. Our bed only fit in one place in our room given the very low ceilings and slanted walls. We have to sleep with our heads at the baseboard and feet at the headboard because of the sloped floors. It's quite ridiculous!
There were a few branches down in our yard Monday morning but no major wind damage. J returned to work but not until dropping off the boys at school. They did great. No tears and no real separation anxiety. I think it helped that we had made numerous pre-visits to the school and that they were going to the same place- just different classrooms. I knew that if I dropped them off, both my youngest and I would be crying. I picked them up at noon to let them ease into the transition of being in "school" and away from home. When I picked them up, both were smiling and happy. Both said they wanted to go back. I was one happy mama! Later that day, we also hit the jackpot by being able to become new patients at a sought after dentist office with a long wait. Very lucky. No cavities for JJ but Pickle already has one. Ugghh. At least the dental office is known for being very gentle and great with kids. And they certainly did great with JJ so we'll hope Pick Pick does well there too.
Today, I started my new job. I'm somewhat brain dead from all the form filling out and new employee orientation. I think I will like it there. It's very busy and I know my time will fly by. No real "friend" at work leads yet. The great news. It takes me TWO minutes to get to work. 4 minutes round-trip-- compared to my previous commute of close to 120 minutes round trip. Very cool.
J and the children did more moral hunting today and moved the chicks (all 28 of them) from two, small brooder boxes to one very large corral (that is currently in my living room.) Looks like the boys also thought the chicks needed some toys as I see a barn and some plastic toy food items in there as well. Not sure how the toys mix with the poop infested wood chips. Guess those will be hitting the trash! You just never know what you will walk into when you return from work to your life as a farmwife/mama!
Better go-- the children will soon wake up from their nap and we have to go into town and get their new vitamins (with fluoride--since we have well water now.)
Tomorrow my parents will be visiting and bringing the children twin size beds. Not sure how they will fit in their room but it will be nice to have bigger beds for them.
Bye for now!
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