Almost Settled

We have been here for just a little over 2 weeks and I am relieved to say we are just about settled in. We are settled enough to live at least. There are several boxes of garage things and tools, etc that Allen gets to unpack and organize to his heart's content when he gets home but for me...I am done! I have seen my last piece of packing paper (I hope anyway). We came out 100 pounds under our weight limit but I think we had 500 lbs of paper!!! I am sure they are being on the safe side because people have probably complained in the past, but c'mon...wrapping up handfuls of crayons? wrapping a potholder? Needless to say nothing was broken. Well, a floor lamp's base was broken but I didn't like it anyway and now will get replacement cost for it.

Allen is excited to be only days away from leaving Iraq. Sadly, he only gets to stay here 1 day and then has to fly back to Ellsworth to process in from deployment. He is technically not assigned here yet, so has to do everything through Ellsworth for now. We will have to wait an additional 5 days to get him back when he goes on leave for the whole month of November.

The kids are adjusting fine to school. Jake seems to be having an "ok" time at his new school. I should be happy that he is not complaining about it, but I just want him to like it as much as he did his old school. I know he will in time. Alec (our total history buff) got to go to Jamestown and Yorktown on the his 2nd day at school for a field trip. He is still talking about it. Sam's class is goin somewhere next week but it is the same day Allen flies in so I am not sure if any of them will be going to school.

Laundry calls! Over and out!