Weekly Wrap-Up…One Day @ A Time

It's been 9 days since my last post. Have you missed me?? Well... I've missed you! I’m pretty sure I wrote on last Thursday about what was coming up. Missed the Weekly Wrap-Up last Friday but felt withdrawals kicking in so had to boot up the laptop today

We didn’t have school last week and took off the Friday before. We will be at it again on Monday. Friday had all of our stuff (except furniture and items the movers couldn’t/wouldn’t take) in boxes, stacked around the house. Saturday was laid back but Sunday had people coming and going for the tv and washer/dryer moving. Monday the movers were there early and all our stuff was in the trucks by 2ish. It went very fast. I cleaned the house (uh, somewhat not as well as I’d planned..but we packed the cleaning stuff!…oopsie) by 4 and dropped off they keys.

We were officially homeless Well, it was still our house but we couldn’t get in! We stayed at my friends house- was fun! Watched movies and had ice cream.

The kids and I headed out on Wednesday morning. The cat was in the car (not in the kennel most of the time) and did really well. We made it to OH on Thursday. It was later than I had thought it would be when we made it to the hotel. Earlier in the day we saw a nuclear power plant…

Friday we were able to drive around and see the ‘sights’. I hadn’t realized there were so many bad neighborhoods Hazards of living in a small town for so long! I would like to say that I’m just paranoid…but no, I don’t think so.

We also got to go inside our new house and I’m in love! I absolutely LOVE it! There is a bird’s nest in one of the upper windows. I didn’t get a photo of the lamb’s ear around the tree but it’s so pretty.

The kids and I scoped out the libraries and parks in the area. I also got a CVS/pharmacy card. Wow! I haven’t been in one of those places in so long! I’d forgotten how neat it is to have options.

The traffic is still downright scary and fairly all travel takes me on the freeway (or is it a highway?) where the drivers are vicious! Well, lol, not really, just aggressive. I’m not so much… I will have to work on that

Tonight, Saturday, Lee and I went to Giant Eagle to pick up food that I hoped would be cheaper than fast food and/or more nutritious. I’m not sure how well I did. Spent $12.02 on chicken, potato wedges and soda (well, that’s not nutritious…wait! it has vitamin E in it… yeah, weird) compared to $20+ for burgers and fries. Eh, well, I tried. I did get one of their nifty savers cards (good toward cents off gas!).

While were at Giant Eagle we saw some strange fruit. Strange to us, that is. Look at the cute little pineapple! Lee said the last fruit looks like something from a Dr. Seuss book

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We are staying in a hotel until Friday…and it’s been…uh, an experience. We keep our door locked and all of our stuff with us at all times. Times like this when I really miss ‘home’.

So, really it has been a good week- filled with ‘adventure’ and new sights and sounds. I cannot wait to be out of this hotel though! I am thankful that we have a place to stay.

Have a look-see at others’ week at the Weekly Wrap-Up hosted by Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers