Crazy in many ways

Crazy hair day! Crazy January temperature in upper 60's! Crazy that we bought a new house last night (with contingency)! Crazy we're leaving the country and headed back into town! Crazy that we've got our place up for sale! Crazy that on day 1 we had someone interested!

Sam's hair is the calmest of all the current crazy.

MovieMonday—Our Idiot Brother

Wow, has it been along time since I wrote anything about seeing a movie.  We had free movie channels this weekend so the ol’ dvr is full now.  We watched one that made us both laugh, which is very welcome during a time that feels really tense as we try to make major decisions about our home life—like where IS our home?  Right now we are weighing the choices of selling this place and moving back into town to a house that seems meant for us, or keeping this place and building the addition that just hasn’t happened in two and half years we’ve been planning and contemplating it.  Tough choices and either way is stress-filled, but not doing something isn’t really an option any longer. 

So to have some light hearted laughs was fun and we both liked the movie.  Paul Rudd was very good and it was just what we needed. 

Whatta Bun

Girlfriend wanted me up get her up an hour early this morning. I wondered why. Turns out, she wanted time to watch a hair how-to video, and then she created this. And now she's ready for school. That's a good morning.

Aaah, Back on the Computer but Really This is about Our Best Gift

I will probably jinx it just by saying it, but right now we have Internet, yippee.  It’s been awhile but another 45 minutes on the line with Verizon today and I think we have solved our issues.  Hopefully.  And for good, I so hope.

And I was going to send a private message via email to tell someone what I was thinking and to thank them, but then thought, shoot, I should just put it out there for all the Internet world to hear.   So here it is:

I had lunch with my friend yesterday and at a point in our conversation, I just got hit over the head by a comment, something that was said, and walked away really feeling the need to wake up and express the gratitude. 

So were chatting, catching up, talking about our holidays.  I was saying ours started out so stressful, but once we got to the in-laws, we finally got to relax and enjoy it.  But my friend, she didn’t think she heard it right.

(Chuckling) “You said you were more relaxed after you went to your in-laws than you were at home.”

And I said, “Right.  That’s what I meant.” 

“At your in-laws?!”

Right. 

And what a gift that is--to be able to say you feel more at home at someone’s house than you feel at your own.  That probably was the best gift this run-ragged family could have received for those four days over Christmas break.  Thank you!!  Thank you to the whole family . 

     

   

 

If I were a bit more poetic, here’s where I’d insert my poem about it being so cold out there, but oh so warm on the inside,

inside at the place that always feels like home.