Good evening all! Well bedtime has arrived for us here once more in central North America lol. Today was filled with fun in the sun and some funnies!
We started off our morning by heading to the house to drop Ginger off...there is so much more space there for her to chew her bone and run around and I think she makes too much noise on the second floor of David's apartment with hard wood floors! After dropping her off we headed to meet up with some new friends and do a pool day with other Ward members. Since this was my first invite going somewhere of course I was nervous to meet people, but everyone was wonderful and I met some really bubbly people and the kids had THE best time swimming for hours and meeting new friends! Meeting new friends can be hard sometimes. But what I have learned is keep it simple, ask people all kinds of questions, and make sure to complement them, genuinely find something you really like about them or their children and say something. "Be kind and friends will follow" Hasn't not worked for me yet!
After our fun day swimming and meeting new people, we headed over to a paint store to get some information and cards from painters. Well, I had an interesting experience that is funny to me at least. I am Caucasian. I speak maybe a freshman grade level of Spanish. Today, I am not sure what language some of the painters were speaking on the phone. I am also a speech therapist and I have dealt with MANY MANY cases of articulation problems. But when you combine someone who barely speaks English with a Texan accent....you have a WHOLE lot of me saying, "What?! What?! I'm sorry I didn't understand that last part." It was awful and funny! I finally did find a painter and I look forward to having him help us out soon!
After making calls to find a painter, the kids and I drove through McDonalds and grabbed some late lunch. We drove over to the big pond area near our home and ate lunch in the shade at a picnic table. It was so quiet and beautiful! There were cranes eating fish, ducks swimming, and my little kiddos being BEYOND quiet. I just watched them eat mostly and soaked in the peaceful moment! There are times in my life when I pray so hard that I have the opportunity to rewind and look back on in Heaven....that moment of my little ones munching on food in one of the most beautiful places was for sure one of those treasured moments!
After lunch we headed back to the house and I let the boys and the dog get their wiggles out some more. Then it was home for naps and I got a GOOD one today!
Tonight is hopefully one of the last nights in our apartment. We are hoping to get some people to help us move out of here and into the house with what we have on Friday night. Fingers crossed it all works out! Like I said we live here with hardwood floors covering most of the place and the people above US are crazy noisy! They vacuumed at 1 in the morning yesterday and David said that is normal....yeah, time to get OUT of living in a place with common walls! Have a great night all and catch me tomorrow....my mom and her best friend are coming in for some Texas fun!
We started off our morning by heading to the house to drop Ginger off...there is so much more space there for her to chew her bone and run around and I think she makes too much noise on the second floor of David's apartment with hard wood floors! After dropping her off we headed to meet up with some new friends and do a pool day with other Ward members. Since this was my first invite going somewhere of course I was nervous to meet people, but everyone was wonderful and I met some really bubbly people and the kids had THE best time swimming for hours and meeting new friends! Meeting new friends can be hard sometimes. But what I have learned is keep it simple, ask people all kinds of questions, and make sure to complement them, genuinely find something you really like about them or their children and say something. "Be kind and friends will follow" Hasn't not worked for me yet!
After our fun day swimming and meeting new people, we headed over to a paint store to get some information and cards from painters. Well, I had an interesting experience that is funny to me at least. I am Caucasian. I speak maybe a freshman grade level of Spanish. Today, I am not sure what language some of the painters were speaking on the phone. I am also a speech therapist and I have dealt with MANY MANY cases of articulation problems. But when you combine someone who barely speaks English with a Texan accent....you have a WHOLE lot of me saying, "What?! What?! I'm sorry I didn't understand that last part." It was awful and funny! I finally did find a painter and I look forward to having him help us out soon!
After making calls to find a painter, the kids and I drove through McDonalds and grabbed some late lunch. We drove over to the big pond area near our home and ate lunch in the shade at a picnic table. It was so quiet and beautiful! There were cranes eating fish, ducks swimming, and my little kiddos being BEYOND quiet. I just watched them eat mostly and soaked in the peaceful moment! There are times in my life when I pray so hard that I have the opportunity to rewind and look back on in Heaven....that moment of my little ones munching on food in one of the most beautiful places was for sure one of those treasured moments!
After lunch we headed back to the house and I let the boys and the dog get their wiggles out some more. Then it was home for naps and I got a GOOD one today!
Tonight is hopefully one of the last nights in our apartment. We are hoping to get some people to help us move out of here and into the house with what we have on Friday night. Fingers crossed it all works out! Like I said we live here with hardwood floors covering most of the place and the people above US are crazy noisy! They vacuumed at 1 in the morning yesterday and David said that is normal....yeah, time to get OUT of living in a place with common walls! Have a great night all and catch me tomorrow....my mom and her best friend are coming in for some Texas fun!
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