New Year, New House, New Life?

December passed so quickly I don't remember much about it. ; ) Christmas was quiet...mainly because we were snowed in for most of the week before, and 3/5 of the Christmas parties we'd planned on attending were cancelled.


BUT, we were not just sitting around playing Monopoly. ; ) (Not that there's anything *wrong* with sitting around playing Monopoly....I enjoy a good Monopoly game...where was I? Oh, yes...)

We've been working on getting our house! It's close now....so close I feel all bubbly inside! ; ) The survey is scheduled for tomorrow, and we're supposed to go talk to the peoples at the insurance office....the last two big things on our end! After that it's just waiting on the loan guys to get their ducks in a row...or papers in a file or whatever it is they're doing. ; ) (At least, that's what I think is what's happening now...I could be wrong...we've never bought a house before.) ; )

Until we figure out the nuances of our new bills...water, electric heat, house payment....we'll be without phone/internet. Hopefully once we're into it a bit we'll be able to find money for those, but until then....or until a few pets die off...I'll have to use the library computers....NOT looking forward to going back to that! lol BUT, a house is worth it! : )

I'm so full of ideas and thoughts about fixing it up! Every morning I wake up thinking some new thing I might do to it. ; ) This morning I was thinking about making drapes. We *will* need drapes or something....someday I'd like to have wooden shutters inside, but they're not in the budget (or daddy's to-do list) so I'll have to wait on them, so drapes, I guess, will have to do. I can see the design in my head but getting it out onto fabric is another thing altogether.....I can NOT use a sewing machine, and that'd be a LOT of hand-sewing! Still, que sera sera! : )

As far as schooling is going....lots of fun there! Emma is writing two novels right now, a sequel to a certain vamipre book which shall not be named and a sequel to the same book from the vampire's POV....sound's interesting, but she doesn't want me to read it. ; ) She's going through pens like there's no tomorrow, though. ; )

Anna is doing whatever it is she does....experimenting with fire and ice and animals (not at the same time, mostly) and building shelters and learning about survival in the wild and she just started basketball again.....she's always busy!

Oh, and Emma made a new friend! At Anna's basketball practice/game yesterday (wherein Anna scored 10 points for her team!) Emma noticed a girl sitting on the bleachers near her and....wonder of wonders...went over and introduced herself! You'd have to know Emma to know how HUGE that is...she surprised herself, even! ; )

SO, lots of things going on....it's going to be an interesting year, I just KNOW it! : )