The Unwanted Gift

I didn't get a post up last week.  I was still tired and it was so busy!  You know those gifts you receive and you are not sure if you need that gift or even want it?  Then somehow you learn to use it and you love it? I feel like moving has been that way.  We have 12 days until school starts.  We have shopping still to do and we have a list of things we still WANT to do this summer.  Starting school in the middle of August feels early to me.  We went to a church musical called "Welcome to Kanesville" yesterday.  I had seen advertisements to participate when we first got here. I tried to get the kids interested but they were a no-go.  I am kind of glad we didn't.  It was neat, but it was a 30 mile drive to get there.  After daily for 3 weeks of that drive, it would not have been so much fun.  We also tried a new water park here.  We had heard lots about it.  Also, they dropped their rates so it was only a quarter per child to get it!  It reminded me of Ross Park.  We also went to a sprinkler park.  We have been trying to redeem as many of the library rewards as we can.  We have been to Pizza Hut and out for ice cream.  It has been fun and I am not sure I want to fun to end just yet! I think it will be good for the kids to get in school and make more friends.  It felt foreign and my kids were driving each other crazy because they had no friends. But it has been so nice to see them form better friendships with each other.  It has been a fun summer and I am starting to feel settled in.  I guess that is why it is time for school to start.  Settling in is never part of the plan.  It is growth and change and development.  I am not sure I love it here yet.  It was hard to have a nephew return from a 2 year mission in Africa and not be able to go and see him.  I am not sure when we will see him again!  As I was laying in bed this morning and everyone was still asleep and quiet, I looked around my room and asked myself, "Does it feel like home?"  I think it is starting to.  That is a good feeling.