Ready to sew!

I finally finished Dwayne's coat for our re-enacting. I hope to get a picture of it on him, but because it is made of wool and it is so hot outside, he really doesn't want to have it on. Today I begin his pants. I am not a great sewer and I am even worse I trying to follow pattern instructions and unfortunately, these instructions are not real good, because they are a rough draft that I picked up for free last year at Mississinewa 1812. Lucky for me I took pictures of the pants they had on display last year, so with those pictures and the pattern pieces I have, I am hoping to be able to basically put the pants together. I will post a picture of them when I am done, if I am brave enough. Dwayne is building us an awesome rope bed, so that we will not be using cots this year, which means we should be more period correct inside our tent. This will mean if we want to, we can leave our tent flaps open for people to look into our tent.

Well...off to sew...tons to do, Brighton will need a coat, Sari and I need capes, Dwayne wants a new waistcoat (vest), Sari wants a new dress, and I would like to make Dora a dress as a Birthday surprise.

Awesome Griller!!!

Dwayne out did himself on Saturday night. He grilled us some wonderful corn, squash, chicken and hamburgers. The corn was sooooo good. All he did was put it right on the grill for about 30 minutes, the husk and silks came right off so easily and it was very good. Tobi and Brighton were going to town on it, I only wish we would have made more. After the wonderful dinner, I headed off to watch a band contest at Winchester. I got to sit with Jill and Joe Cunningham. I am so glad I had someone to sit with. Besides, Jill has more knowledge about bands than I do, so she could point out the difficulties of the music and other things that I know nothing about. I like that, because to me they all sound fairly similar. Our band placed 2nd overall, Great Job Hagerstown!!!! Now it looks like another week of band practices, last week of violin lessons until September and for the most part, a much quieter week here at home. I am sure I will be working out some time with friends for Dora and Brighton, since my house is sooooo boring...lol.

Busy Week...

I feel like it has been forever since I blogged last, but it has only been 3 days. For those who are wondering...no we have not heard anything new about our house. Who knows what will happen next, but for now...nothing new.

The band has been doing well, and that is all that has been going on at our house. Sari had tutoring early Thursday, I had to run a friend's kiddo into Muncie, come home and take Sari and Sara to band, and then head over to Jay County myself to watch the band contest. Fifth place Thursday, fourth place last night and who knows about today, I will be leaving for that band contest here soon. Dwayne went with me last night, but he will be staying here with our kiddos tonight. It has been really neat watching her perform. I have video that I could share, but I think she wants to do that to her own blog.

We did end up with a bit of a scare yesterday. Dwayne was having Brighton and Dora destroy an old mattress box springs, Dora got a little frustrated at it and decided to stomp on it. Well, she ended up with a nail going into her foot, so that was a quick trip to the Dr.'s office, nothing bad, he cleaned it up and gave her some medicine in case of infection. She took it like a trooper, in fact she was a little disappointed that she did not have to have a shot...lol.

Cousin Week

This week is cousin week at my Mother-in-law's house. Every summer she tries very hard to gather up all her grandchildren and have them at her house for an entire week. This should mean that I get an entire week without my lovely kiddos. LOL...yeah, right. Not my kiddos, something always comes up and since I am only 15 minutes away from her house...I go over there. This week has been even more messed up. Since my children are getting older, that usually mean there is more going on in their lives than just being able to relax in the summer. Sari has band every single day this week, Dora had violin lessons, and well, Tobi just doesn't want to stay every night. On Monday, I had to drive Sari and Brighton over in the morning, since they had youth group the night before and did not stay the night Sunday night. Back over at 2:30pm to pick up Sari, Dora, and Tobi, Dora for her violin lessons, Sari to drop off at the school to catch her ride to band, and Tobi because she didn't want to stay. Then, back over at 6:30pm to drop off Dora, since the house was being shown and it gave us somewhere to be, Tobi decided to stay, back over again at 10:30pm to drop Sari off to spend the night, pick up Tobi, who thought I was gone way too long, to stay the night back at home. Tuesday, Tobi stayed with me all day until I went over at 5:15pm to pick Sari up for band, then Tobi stayed with Grandma. Back over again at 10:30pm to drop off Sari and to find out that Tobi has decided she would like to stay the night...WOOHOO! So, now this Wednesday morning...no kids...my first and only morning of cousin week with no kiddos...yea! This is all short lived, because of course at 5pm I will be picking Sari up yet again to drop her off for band, then she will stay here tonight, since tomorrow, Friday and Saturday are band contests. So far, I have driven over 140 miles in 2 days of my week off...lol.

I hate Ants!!!

I have been finding these tiny little red ants around my house. They will randomly scope out some little piece of food and then there will be tons of them. I will spray bug spray on them, get them all cleaned up and then days will go by without seeing any sign of them. Then *BAM* out of no where there will be tons of them again. They are driving me crazy. Today I found them in a bag of cat food. They really seem to like the cat food. I spent an hour cleaning them out of the cat food this morning. I would have just thrown the food away, but it was a full bag and that is just a waste of money. Anyone else have problems with these little pests?

On another note, no...we have not heard anything more about the house. The house was shown again last night. Not sure who to, but it was shown. I spent all day yesterday either driving kids to music things or cleaning. I am ready for a little break today.

Thank you!

We still have not heard anything more about the house, but I really want to thank everyone for the wonderful support I get when I talk about all that is going on with us right now. It is nice knowing we will be missed if we move, but it is also really nice knowing that we have support from everyone if we do move. We still feel a peace about moving, although the closer we get to school starting, a little more anxious I feel just because I worry about my kiddos, and we are still good with staying as well. I truely believe this is in God's hands. This is all just a learning experience. Part of me keeps wanting to think about how much easier it would be just to stay, just ignore the possibility of moving and figure out a way to just stay, but then deep down I start to think, if I push this and stay, what blessing...what ministry...what opportunity could I be missing if we move? What kind of things could my kiddos be missing if I keep them here instead of following God's plan? How in the world can I justify staying if God is leading us else where? I can't. After all the praying Dwayne and I have been doing, I think there would be some kind of hint that it was not God's plan for us to go, if the house sells. We both feel very strongly that if the house sells, in this bad housing market, at the price we have to ask for, then it is God's will for us to go, and go we will...

On a side note, last night was Sari's first every marching band contest. She is marching with another school with some other Monroe Central students. It has been hard, not only is she learning how to march, she is learning a new instrument as well....a huge bass drum. I will not tell how well the band did, I will leave that to her to post on her own blog.

waiting...

The offer was made, it was low, we expected that, we have come back with our counter offer...now we just get to wait...and wait...I am just loving all this waiting these days. :)