The Daily Grind

We are settling into a strange routine these days. We get up each morning, Erik goes to work and the children and I go to the rental house. The kids and I "renovate" all morning and then come "home" to the H.'s house for naptime. Erik arrives at the rental house during lunch and works all afternoon. We get up, have a snack and head back to the house to work until bedtime.

The boys are becoming overly frustrated with us because there is a perfectly good pool in the backyard and they haven't gotten to swim in it yet. The first time we walked through the house, Jake saw the pool and said "Get naked! Let's go swim!" and started stripping off superfluous clothes and galloping with his cast to jump in. They certainly took to the water this summer!

Libby celebrated the new rental house by learning to roll over there yesterday. I explained to her that she is not allowed to become mobile until we are set up in our home and not living in someone else's house while renovating another. She is a sweet baby!

Anyway, please pray for me. I'm feeling the strain of the last two months of traveling with three under three and my nerves are unraveling. I guess I had some unrealistic expectations for how things would unfold once we got out here. It is going to be a couple more weeks before we get into our house, my friend group from when we lived here has dispersed and I am feeling a little lonely and couped up. The head pastor's wife holds a monthly Bible study for all the church staff wives and that was really refreshing to able to identify with the other ladies and have someone to unload on. I also went to MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) and met a few ladies. We have a playdate scheduled for Monday with a family with two boys the same ages as Jake and Dan. Erik has strep, hopefully the boys won't catch it and force us to stay home from church and the playdate! I need adult contact!!!