May 17, 2006
When I got home tonight Mother was in a tizzy trying to cook dinner and she had been outside and gotten mosquito bites and wanted to scratch them, but not burn dinner. After listening to her for a moment, and me trying to soothe her, Alesia looked at Mother and said sternly, "Granny, chill OUT!" We just laughed.
Coco is the funniest dog. She almost never goes outside, and she likes to take the tiny milkbone dog bisquits we give her as treats and hide them. Tonight Mother found one in the toe of her shoe! We find them under sofa cushions, in our beds, etc. Coco could survive for a week in the house if left on her own - not that we would ever do that of course...
Things are still stacked up at work, and getting further and further behind. Feels like I’m swimming upstream through mud, there.
On a more positive note, I posted this on my yahoo site tonight:
Things are rocking along. I got my employment verifications today, and tomorrow I am getting the medicals done, and I have to get a copy of the deed to my house. In some ways Kazakhstan is easier, in some ways harder. I got my homestudy reference letters, and the autobiographical update took about 15 minutes. I have to go to the police station next week and get my fingerprints AND Mother's, and on June 6 I get the ones for the 171H. The homestudy should be finished in a couple of weeks.
We got my son's room almost ready for him! It looks so nice. I got a muted blue/green plaid comforter, very LL Bean looking. My father collected cowboy hats, and I've collected some baseball caps and campy hats over the years, so we ordered racks and hung the hat collection. We hung a Remington print of a cowboy over the bed. Mother contributed her precious teddy bear collection, atop a little toy chest that was mine growing up, and Alesia contributed some books. He will sleep on the iron spindle post bed my grandfather bought for himself and my grandmother in 1923 for $11 - an iron bed I grew up sleeping in that has stood the test of time! There's also a painting in there by my uncle. It's a room filled with special things. We installed a new ceiling fan, and on Friday there will be w small, new desk, and next week hopefully a good used computer - for both kids to use.
I am just so impatient for him to be home. I am hoping and praying I can take 2 or 3 months FMLA leave and help him with his English a lot when he gets home. Alesia has promised to help, too. She is excited.
My friend the Delta pilot got us buddy passes for the Atlanta to Frankfurt leg of the trips, which helps tremendously. Too bad they are phasing out that program - I got spoiled in business class when I used those passes to bring Alesia home. You really get pampered.
Keep us in your prayers that things will continue to go smoothly!
Dee
