Home Again, Home Again!!

Monday, June 16
6 AM (CA)- wake up, inhale....get dressed, make 2 chocolate milks, pack car, dress kids, load kids in car, try not to throw up...
7 AM- depart Roseville for San Francisco International Airport, pay almost $5 a gallon for gas, fight a wave of nausea..
7:45 AM- see hot air balloons over Napa, make Scott pull over so I can throw up...
8:45 AM- arrive at airport, check 2 bags, take off 6 shoes, send 5 carry-ons and one folded stroller through security, re-shoe 3 people, look for one lost croc, reload stroller, bribe Em to ride in stroller...
9:15 AM- begin to wait on flight, entertain 2 kids
11:30 (departure time)- continue to wait on flight, bargain with 2 kids
Noon (CA)- finally load plane, buckle in kids, bribe to not kick seats in front of them
Noon to 4:30 (CA)- buckle- unbuckle, buckle- unbuckle, bathroom, play with in-seat TV monitors, pick up cars off floor, dress barbie, pick up cars off floor, undress barbie... redress barbie, color, scrape Play-Doh off seat, unbuckle- buckle, change barbie's clothes...
7:30 PM (GA)- land in Atlanta! Fight with overloaded stroller and 2 kids all the way to baggage claim, meet Nana, exhale.

Truthfully, besides me feeling sick, it was an easy-peasy day. The kids were wonderful on the plane. Will even slept for 45 minutes (after he had informed everyone in a five seat radius of every detail about our family... "This is my mom. She is 28. We live at 1711 Russell Way... We're going to GA. My dad's a worship pastor. Do you want to see my cars? My mom bought them for me...."

Settled for now...

So we've lived in CA for 2 weeks now with minimal homesickness (mostly by me, not the kids or Scotty). Since we lost 1,000 square feet and a basement in the move, it really didn't take long to unpack. I saved the closets for last and finished those yesterday. I'm using the closet in my bedroom; Scott gets to hang his shirts in the "playroom" closet. Will and Em are sharing a bedroom and like the bunkbeds. We now have a couch, since our GA couch now lives in Sharpsburg with Alex and Jess, and we have a futon- so come visit!
We're so close to everything! We really haven't had to leave Roseville yet. Since Scott and I are sharing a car, the kids and I walk to the park. Scott's office is only 3 miles away, so sometimes we drop him off and other times "he rides his bike" (1 time I took it to him at work and he rode it home; another time he rode it to work and we picked him up...)
We love our church (www.baysidecentral.com) and all the people there! I would alreday be back in Georgia if the people at BCR were not so wonderful! There are lots of families with kids Will and Em's ages, and everyone has been so great about inviting us to do things, offering to help, getting us information on the area, etc. We had balloons, groceries, and gifts when we got here and meals for three days! Not to mention, the Worship Pastor is pretty hot, too ;)
Will likes CA because "snails are his favorite bug." After the sprinklers come on in our backyard in the evenings, he collects the snails in his bug box (a gift from the wonderful Jane!). Maybe a little creepy if they ever decided to take over, but he collected like 82 snails one night!!! Em, of course, goes around doing whatever he is up to, screaming the whole way.