Today I organized the piles that oh so quickly accumulate. It needed to be done, is not finished yet, but felt great to get started! And, I think, just maybe, I have the kids ready for school tomorrow - WITH all the papers, homework, money, etc that they are supposed to have. Hopefully I won't get the 'I know you're new so we will help you along' look from any teachers this week. I'm getting there. We are discovering that Muskegon doesn't seem to use websites in the same frequency we are used to. We are used to going to a website and getting all the information we need. Not so much here.
Like tonight. We wanted to go to a church that is near our new home to just check it out a bit. The website said 5 - 9 PM with no details. So we show up at 5 and find out the supper goes from 5 -6 the play goes from 6 - 7. So, we are in a strange church parking lot and no place to go. We call up our dentist friends and go visit for 45 minutes. Which means I got to see a gorgeous sunset over the lake, the kids got to play with the golden labs and Brandon got to watch some football. Matt also got to fix a doll's arm, but that's a whole other story. The program was ok, but the kids weren't impressed. I may have a hard time convincing them to go to GEMS and Cadets there. I will give it time.
We also notice they don't recycle much - from what we can tell, they throw away paper, soup cans, most plastics. Its going to be weird just throwing that all in a bin and walking away, but I think keeping bags of recycling and sending them back with whomever is visiting seems a bit out of the realm of decency as well. We were told to wait until we moved to our new home to truly figure it out. I guess the carrier you have makes a big difference. We shall see.
Maria slept through lunch today. She has been taking a couple of naps a week. She is just TIRED and needs it. Those early mornings are hard on a 5 year old!
Crazy side bar - We got one of the coca cola glasses that you get free from McDonald's. They are cool glasses. Anyway, I went on ebay to see if you could just buy the glasses and of course you can, but people are selling them for $20! That's crazy. I don't want glasses that bad, especially when I can get a nice looking set at Meijer or Kohl's for that price! Maybe I'll just eat lunch at McDonald's all week and get a few more glasses.
I am missing people tonight. More memories - remembering traditions, etc. I will give that time also.
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