November!

 

Now we're really on the downhill slide of 2022...

Progress on our house again. Yay! The drywall is up, taped, mudded, and textured. The back wall is up in our rear yard. We're expecting stucco any day now. The latest estimate is January 23rd for a finish date. We'll see. We've had a lot of "expected finish dates" this year.

I realized the other day that I bought a New Home ornament for Christmas, but we won't have a new home this year. Fortunately my daughter just moved into a new house so I'll pass it on to her.

Thankful for so much this year and planning to focus on that this month.

October

 

October! The month when our temps usually drop below 100... The month that I'm usually almost done with Christmas shopping... The month that we can finally open our windows at night...

Of course, as with every other month this year there's not much that's "usual". 

I'll start with good news. Our new house has been insulated, the roof tiles have been installed, and the drywall has been dropped off. Yay!

Our current home is still on the market. We've had three lookers since it went back on and two of them indicated they were interested, then nothing. While it is frustrating, we're not really worried because our house is scheduled to be completed January 10, 2023 (February 10th if the drywall isn't installed in the next week). 

We were going to move to an interim apartment, but we've cancelled that completely. We'll deal with it when the house actually sells. I have absolute faith that God knows (and knew all along) what's happening. I know He has a perfect plan for us and I'm trying to not get in the way of His plan! That's not to say that we don't have our moments, we do. But for the most part we feel a peace underlying all of the uncertainty.

Some of the Grands are in Soccer, so we're enjoying their games. The model railroad club has a huge event at the end of the month that we're looking forward to. The San Diego Padres are in the hunt for post-season play, which we're very excited about. And football season has begun. 

My plan for this October is to embrace and enjoy the unusual!

September

 

September! The month when sometimes we get temps in the upper 90s-low 100s. Sometimes the overnight lows drop into the low 80s-upper 70s. We've had the strangest summer, I don't know what to expect from September this year. We had several weeks of temps in the 90s... very rare. We had several weeks with a chance of rain each day and we actually received rain multiple days in a row. We haven't had a monsoon like this for years. It was awesome.

September brings the start of grandkids' sports events. Hopefully it will bring some progress on our new house. And hopefully our current house will sell... again.

Whatever September brings I'm always filled with anticipation this month. The anticipation of the Fall/Winter holidays. Of cooler weather. Of being able to open up the windows at night (maybe). 

Bring it on September, I'm ready!

August

Wow, it's August. 

Two of my Grands started school today. Three of them start tomorrow. One starts in two weeks.

Our house saga is ongoing. The good news is that we sold our current house! The challenge is that we need to find a short-term rental to live in until the new house is done. The projected date for the new house is 11/9/2022. Yes, I put the year in. The way things have been going it's not a sure bet that it will be completed in 2022. I do have good news on the new house though. We have a frame walk through tomorrow morning. We're hoping that we will get more information about the timeline moving forward. 

So we're busy getting ready to vacate this house for a 600 sf. one bedroom rental. It'll be tight quarters, especially since we have to set up Dan's office in the space. But on the positive side, it'll make what was to be a transition from a 2613 sf house to an 1851 sf house much easier. That 1851 sf will feel like a mansion after 600 sf. See, there's always a bright side!

Enjoy your August!

July

 

July! The year is half over. Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments are released. Hallmark Channel is showing Christmas movies 24/7. The monsoon has arrived. School starts in 30 days.

What's not to love about July? 

(BTW, if you're into Christmas in July, check out my Christmas Blog.)

May!

 

May already?! As I whined about, er... I mean explained in my last post we are waiting for our house to be built. And by waiting, I mean WAITING. But as always, God's timing is perfect and it's a good thing we're not trying to move right now.

My dad finally came to the conclusion that he and mom need to move out of their house. We found a private pay Faith Based congregant living situation for them and they're moving in May.

So we're busy helping them pack what they want to move (it's a much smaller place) and encouraging them that this will be a much less stressful lifestyle. This place looks like a hotel and has two restaurants, a pool, a dog park, library, game rooms and multiple sitting rooms on each floor. There's also a fitness center, PT center, gift shop, full service beauty/barber salon, prayer garden, Bible studies, church service, the list goes on. It will be a great independent living choice for them. Each apartment has either a patio or a balcony so they can sit outside and enjoy the nice weather. We're so relieved that this decision has been made.

So, that's going to be my May. Wonder what my June will look like...

March!

 

Here we are... in March! 

I try not to whine too much about our weather because I know that when I'm freezing to death in the 60s most of the country is REALLY freezing. So I feel bad about complaining. Instead I'm choosing to focus on the positive and rejoice because we're in the 80s... FINALLY! I can open the doors and windows during the day and turn off the artificial environment (heater). I love this time of year.

So I have a new obsession. Every morning I play Wordle, Worldle, Nerdle and Wordle Jr during breakfast. It's a good thing there's only one puzzle realeased per day so I can't give in to the compulsion to play it non-stop! The Worldle game is particularly interesting to me as Geography is not my strong suit. I'm enjoying it immensely. And as I told my husband, I'll be able to answer Geography questions on Jeopardy with a little more confidence now.

Hope you all have a terrific March...

Ahh, September!

 

February!

 

December

Oh my goodness, I'm 4 days late!!

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