There's No Place Like Roam

Ok, I know I will have to go back and detail the chaos that has ensued over the past few months, but this is a biggie. We closed on our new house in Ooltewah, Tennessee earlier today and we are so excited. It will still be 26 days before the boys and I join Jason in TN, but we are making progress!

Do I have a story to tell you! Last night Hunter ask if he could go out to the van and look for his Nintendo DS. I let him go and then made sure he locked the door as he came in. This morning, as I stepped outside to take some things to the car before we left for school/work, I noticed the sliding door on the van was wide open. I started griping to the boys "Good grief, now the battery is going to be dead....AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" They came running out the door to find an "American Bulldog" curled up in Carter's seat. After I got my wits about me, I sent them back in and tried to talk the dog out of the car. Then I tried to entice him out with a hot dog. He just stared at me. Then I got a stick, opened up all the doors and yelled at him to try to scare him out. He just ran behind the seat and hid in the back. When I got really agressive he started quivering his lip like he was going to growl at me. He was scared of me and I of him. All the while, I was documenting th...

This is the only picture I took of the moving process. There is Lillian heading to her temporary home at Howell's Body Shop where she will get a new coat of paint. The moving truck is in the background. Thank goodness for movers. We would have never got it done without them!

As I'm going back and trying to fill in the gaps in my blog, I cannot forget the "Little House". Our family had a very chaotic few months while Daddy transitioned into his new job with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, TN . I'm not complaining, as we were truly blessed during this time, and every phase of the move was "right on time". I'm a planner, though, and this was just something that couldn't be planned. We needed to sell our house in AL, find a house in TN within 3 months, and get the kids transitioned into a new school, not to mention, I needed to backfill my spot at Solutia, without leaving them high and dry. Well, it all happened. We were able to get a lease purchase agreement on our home without a realtor. This saved us thousands and we are confident that the sale of the house will be finalized within the lease terms. However, the buyers wanted the house right away. Who were we to complain? Houses had been languishing on the market for months. S...

Well, when I posted back in July that Jason had decided to leave Honda after 9 years and go to a supplier, I certainly never imagined that I would be posting 5 months later that he was changing jobs again! (Well, actually I am posting this 10 months later, but we left the blog alone for a while. We decided not to notify the entire world that the boys and I were staying alone during the week, so we kept the news off our blog and facebook pages.) Anyway, a week after Jason left Honda and the Friday before he started his new job, Volkswagen called. Now, we had been waiting for that call ALL SUMMER! You see, for my 33rd birthday, Jason and I took a trip to Lookout Mountain and fell in love with Chattanooga. We've always loved Tennessee, and we knew there were many things to do in the area, but when we realized you could be at Rock City one minute, and downtown 10 minutes later, we were sold. While we were still on my birthday trip we remembered that Chattanooga was the town who had won...

Well, no one received an iPhone, but apparently its all I had available to take pictures, so they are pretty bad.