Wow! What a summer we've had! We started off with swim lessons and headed into an awesome VBS talking about some of the miracles of God and Jesus. The kids spent the week being "God Scene Investigators".
Then, the flood waters opened.......
We found a big house - 2800 sq ft - on about 7 acres on the good side of the light pollution spectrum, meaning DFW and Greenville are grouped into one big light mass instead of having Greenville on one side of the sky and Dallas on the other. It was a foreclosure IN GOOD SHAPE!! All the appliances were still in it, the HVAC was there and working. The only think missing was cabinet doors/draw fronts and bedroom doors.
So..... we spent the last few days of VBS and all of July working out the details on buying this house. There was, of course, the financing and then the determining of the correct address - because the listing address was one thing, the tax record listed another, and the 911 system had another. As it turns out, 911 trumps all.
In between all this running, we were involved in our normal summer activities - day camp at the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum and tennis camp. To add to this, A was a member of the Greenville Youth Orchestra and C started taking guitar lessons. Fortunate for her, our piano teacher had the opportunity to travel to Brazil with the TAMU-C choir, so we didn't have piano lessons in July.
During the 1st week of August, we closed on our new-to-us house and started moving boxes, after a good sweeping and mopping to get rid of the grasshoppers and spiders inside. Craig also had his next masters class start during this moving process so we had a week to clean and pack. We reserved a u-haul and moved all the big things with the help of wonderful friends.
We have now been here for almost 2 months and are starting to get settled. We planned a school day and basically used it to see what things we hadn't found yet. We cleaned up the downstairs and went upstairs to work and ending up moving a bunch of boxes downstairs. Will it ever end??
My hope is that I'll get some before and after pictures posted over the next few weeks. We are doing lots of painting and a little replacing of doors and the dishwasher, which though installed doesn't work, and new light fixtures.
School.....? Well, I think we are going to take one more week off of formal school to give us a little more organizing time. However, we are enjoying getting to know the local homeschoolers via field trips and park days. And aren't organizing skills a part of life skills?
Then, the flood waters opened.......
We found a big house - 2800 sq ft - on about 7 acres on the good side of the light pollution spectrum, meaning DFW and Greenville are grouped into one big light mass instead of having Greenville on one side of the sky and Dallas on the other. It was a foreclosure IN GOOD SHAPE!! All the appliances were still in it, the HVAC was there and working. The only think missing was cabinet doors/draw fronts and bedroom doors.
So..... we spent the last few days of VBS and all of July working out the details on buying this house. There was, of course, the financing and then the determining of the correct address - because the listing address was one thing, the tax record listed another, and the 911 system had another. As it turns out, 911 trumps all.
In between all this running, we were involved in our normal summer activities - day camp at the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum and tennis camp. To add to this, A was a member of the Greenville Youth Orchestra and C started taking guitar lessons. Fortunate for her, our piano teacher had the opportunity to travel to Brazil with the TAMU-C choir, so we didn't have piano lessons in July.
During the 1st week of August, we closed on our new-to-us house and started moving boxes, after a good sweeping and mopping to get rid of the grasshoppers and spiders inside. Craig also had his next masters class start during this moving process so we had a week to clean and pack. We reserved a u-haul and moved all the big things with the help of wonderful friends.
We have now been here for almost 2 months and are starting to get settled. We planned a school day and basically used it to see what things we hadn't found yet. We cleaned up the downstairs and went upstairs to work and ending up moving a bunch of boxes downstairs. Will it ever end??
My hope is that I'll get some before and after pictures posted over the next few weeks. We are doing lots of painting and a little replacing of doors and the dishwasher, which though installed doesn't work, and new light fixtures.
School.....? Well, I think we are going to take one more week off of formal school to give us a little more organizing time. However, we are enjoying getting to know the local homeschoolers via field trips and park days. And aren't organizing skills a part of life skills?
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