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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Pictures of Our House
DJ, modelling the dining room
Naomi's favorite part of the house? You guessed it -- the pantry!
DJ in the kitchen
DJ in the arctic entry
Naomi in the mud room.So, I told Lil I would put pictures of the inside of our house up as soon as I could. Now that we have the Internet, I guess I'd best keep my word. This was before we had any furniture.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
It's Hard to Update a Blog With No Internet
That problem will be solved on Saturday when we get a home phone, cable, and internet service. In the meanwhile I am borrowing WiFi from my next door neighbor who told me that I was welcome to use but not abuse.
Here is an update from the last month. We were going to get the keys to our house on November 18th, but we got a call and were told that we could pick them up on the 17th. We were so eager to get out of the hotel, which we agreed even though our stuff wouldn't arrive until the 20th.The night that we found out we were getting the keys early, the power went out on the installation that the hotel was on. Being that the sun goes down early in Alaska, we had to pack all our stuff in the dark. Fortunately, I had a couple of flashlights to aid in our quest to get out of the hotel.
The next day we packed the car, picked up the keys, and went to check out the house. It's awesome! By far the biggest and best laid out house we've ever lived in. We figure based on the fact it was built in 2006 that we must be only the second family to live here.While we were at the hotel, Jenn went to the furniture store to look at mattress prices. We have an old bunk bed and we decided before we left Oklahoma that the mattresses had to go. To our surprise, Serta mattresses were on sale, so we bought them and had them held until we could pick them up. When we moved in, I went down to pick them up and made a makeshift bed out them for me and Jenn.
Our stuff finally arrived on the 20th and the temperature dropped down to -30, now that was cold! Since our stuff arrived, I dug out our indoor/outdoor thermometer and hooked it up. Then I noticed that the temperature was -30 outside and 70 inside making it a 100 degree difference between the two locations.The movers were unloading crates (since the shipment came by boat) and they would unload one and run everything into the garage and shut the door. Then they would unpack it and bring it into the house. It was slow, but by 8:30pm we had boxes all over the house and were reunited with our stuff for the first time since June.
Where we live is convenient to our kid’s school. We live on a loop, and at the bend in the loop there is a path that leads right to the school. If an adult walks it, it only takes about 7-10 minutes, if a child, particularly ours walks it takes 15-20 because they need to take "shortcuts" and examine everything.The kids love school though, they go sledding at recess and seem to have transitioned well to the new school and new teachers. They also enjoy walking to school and get mad if we need to drive that day.
It's starting to get darker; I was off of work this week in order to get moved in. So I took the children to school. School starts at 9:00AM and it still looks like the middle of the night. School ends at 3:30PM and the sun is already down. So they go in the dark and come back in the dark. The 21st of December will be the shortest day when we only get about 4 hours of daylight.Other than that, our kids have really enjoyed sledding. We found a sledding hill in our neighborhood and on "warm" days we go as a family and it's quite fun.
Speaking of warm, the temperature warmed up around Thanksgiving and it was crazy. I never would have thought that 36 degrees was warm, but I was wearing a light sweatshirt and was totally comfortable. Our kids were sweating as they have to wear their winter clothes at recess. It's amazing how fast the body adapts to the environment. It's now hovering between zero and -10 and it's not too bad. Jenn still doesn’t love winter, but even she had adapted to the cold.
That's it for now, hopefully it won't be another month before our next post, but who knows??
Here is an update from the last month. We were going to get the keys to our house on November 18th, but we got a call and were told that we could pick them up on the 17th. We were so eager to get out of the hotel, which we agreed even though our stuff wouldn't arrive until the 20th.The night that we found out we were getting the keys early, the power went out on the installation that the hotel was on. Being that the sun goes down early in Alaska, we had to pack all our stuff in the dark. Fortunately, I had a couple of flashlights to aid in our quest to get out of the hotel.
The next day we packed the car, picked up the keys, and went to check out the house. It's awesome! By far the biggest and best laid out house we've ever lived in. We figure based on the fact it was built in 2006 that we must be only the second family to live here.While we were at the hotel, Jenn went to the furniture store to look at mattress prices. We have an old bunk bed and we decided before we left Oklahoma that the mattresses had to go. To our surprise, Serta mattresses were on sale, so we bought them and had them held until we could pick them up. When we moved in, I went down to pick them up and made a makeshift bed out them for me and Jenn.
Our stuff finally arrived on the 20th and the temperature dropped down to -30, now that was cold! Since our stuff arrived, I dug out our indoor/outdoor thermometer and hooked it up. Then I noticed that the temperature was -30 outside and 70 inside making it a 100 degree difference between the two locations.The movers were unloading crates (since the shipment came by boat) and they would unload one and run everything into the garage and shut the door. Then they would unpack it and bring it into the house. It was slow, but by 8:30pm we had boxes all over the house and were reunited with our stuff for the first time since June.
Where we live is convenient to our kid’s school. We live on a loop, and at the bend in the loop there is a path that leads right to the school. If an adult walks it, it only takes about 7-10 minutes, if a child, particularly ours walks it takes 15-20 because they need to take "shortcuts" and examine everything.The kids love school though, they go sledding at recess and seem to have transitioned well to the new school and new teachers. They also enjoy walking to school and get mad if we need to drive that day.
It's starting to get darker; I was off of work this week in order to get moved in. So I took the children to school. School starts at 9:00AM and it still looks like the middle of the night. School ends at 3:30PM and the sun is already down. So they go in the dark and come back in the dark. The 21st of December will be the shortest day when we only get about 4 hours of daylight.Other than that, our kids have really enjoyed sledding. We found a sledding hill in our neighborhood and on "warm" days we go as a family and it's quite fun.
Speaking of warm, the temperature warmed up around Thanksgiving and it was crazy. I never would have thought that 36 degrees was warm, but I was wearing a light sweatshirt and was totally comfortable. Our kids were sweating as they have to wear their winter clothes at recess. It's amazing how fast the body adapts to the environment. It's now hovering between zero and -10 and it's not too bad. Jenn still doesn’t love winter, but even she had adapted to the cold.
That's it for now, hopefully it won't be another month before our next post, but who knows??
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