4.5 more days...
The following slide-show has pictures from the last week. We have been checking off the "to do" list and it is getting shorter every day. That is a positive accomplishment!
The kids went swimming with Mikael and Farmor one last time on Tuesday. I stayed home and showed the house to the potential buyers. The house is sold now... we haven't met the new family, but have heard that they are expecting a baby. It is a good place to have kids. Quiet, near the forest, and just enough neighbor kids to keep things interesting.
We went ice-skating yesterday! One last time. John go to try out the ice for the first time on skates. Katie and Jake still fit in their skates from last year. It is nice that they opened the rink just in time for us to check it off the list! Mikael's sister is now the inheritor of a pair of ladies' white figure skates... size 38 (Europe). I'm not going to make a place in a box for those! See the snow? Farmor found it behind the rink... dumped "just for us" by the Zamboni this week!
We have taken one car-load of boxes to the church where we can put our stuff for 3 years. It locks, doesn't have water leaks, isn't in the woods where mice will chew through boxes. Now, just to finish off the other boxes to take over.
Winding down... last day at school was yesterday. We took pictures and said goodbye. Got some e-mail addresses and promised to write. I always get teary... looking at my kids leaving their 'known' for the 'unknown'. They don't seem to be too worried right now. They just say they want to 'get there'. I can sure understand that!
Time for a shower. It has been a good Saturday. Mikael and the kids got to visit some friends over lunch. That means that I got to work on a few things that I wanted to do... like download pictures, write this blog, and make a music video for Katie's friends from her party (I don't have time, but I promised... and it is basically done now!).
It looks like it is going to rain soon... and they will be back soon. We have one more meeting at church tonight. More friends and more farewells. One more time...
The kids went swimming with Mikael and Farmor one last time on Tuesday. I stayed home and showed the house to the potential buyers. The house is sold now... we haven't met the new family, but have heard that they are expecting a baby. It is a good place to have kids. Quiet, near the forest, and just enough neighbor kids to keep things interesting.
We went ice-skating yesterday! One last time. John go to try out the ice for the first time on skates. Katie and Jake still fit in their skates from last year. It is nice that they opened the rink just in time for us to check it off the list! Mikael's sister is now the inheritor of a pair of ladies' white figure skates... size 38 (Europe). I'm not going to make a place in a box for those! See the snow? Farmor found it behind the rink... dumped "just for us" by the Zamboni this week!
We have taken one car-load of boxes to the church where we can put our stuff for 3 years. It locks, doesn't have water leaks, isn't in the woods where mice will chew through boxes. Now, just to finish off the other boxes to take over.
Winding down... last day at school was yesterday. We took pictures and said goodbye. Got some e-mail addresses and promised to write. I always get teary... looking at my kids leaving their 'known' for the 'unknown'. They don't seem to be too worried right now. They just say they want to 'get there'. I can sure understand that!
Time for a shower. It has been a good Saturday. Mikael and the kids got to visit some friends over lunch. That means that I got to work on a few things that I wanted to do... like download pictures, write this blog, and make a music video for Katie's friends from her party (I don't have time, but I promised... and it is basically done now!).
It looks like it is going to rain soon... and they will be back soon. We have one more meeting at church tonight. More friends and more farewells. One more time...
Comments
Post a Comment