QuidNunc/QuidTunc?

I can see the living room and dining room floors now. And as for those who are close…. Our biggest boosts have come from our kids. Sam and Sarah got us where we could see things. Chris built us bookshelves. Nick helped finish emptying out our storage unit. Luisa just came this last Saturday and helped me do serious damage to the number of book boxes. I think I have 5 left, and they are not big…… not much shelf space left, either! Jnet and Mary had babies…….. :>)

I had dinner company for the first time yesterday! (Outside of family!) A friend whose husband was out of town, mentioned it at church yesterday and and I just said, “Wanna come for lunch?” I learned that when I invite people to lunch on Sunday, they might as well go home and change and come around 1:15. There is not only the big church across the street, there are 2 more churches within a few blocks. When I got here around 12:30 I got the last parking space anywhere within the radius of a block.  I grilled chicken for them. They were thrilled. Luisa had ridden with friends who went to Hershey Park and so I zipped over to a meeting place in York to get her an.d bring her back. On Saturday we took 462 all the way to Lancaster from York. I have always wanted to do that. When we went through Wrightsville she was reminded of the book ‘Flames Over the Susquehanna’ that she’d read in 6th grade, which is about the burning of the Wrightsville bridge to keep Confederate soldiers from crossing it. there is a new bridge now, but you can see the rocks in the river where it was. They are all overgrown so it is like regulary set rocks in the water.

We had  a birthday number two party for our Katarina and we are all slow in getting the pics up , but between Jnet, Nick and I there should be enought entertainment for a little while! I’ve graduated to ‘flickr pro’ so I can download video. Haven’t tried it yet, but I will! We had fun withour beautiful babies! But the 2 and 3 year olds were the main entertainment! Luisa got to come, too!

Our friends added the following quote from Homer’s Odyssey to their 30th Anniversary party invitation:

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their  friends.”

Odysseus had more enemies then normal, but I didn’t want to lose this delightful quote! We had fun at their party. She is one of my mega-music friends and she has a little pump organ she was happy to use while we sang. She is from Nova Scotia and we wondered “where do you go for a honeymoon when you are from NS????”

Setting up housekeeping for the ninth time (I’ll be I have at least kept up with the Navy wives) is proving to be daunting. I feel like I can hardly function and every day is consumed with putting what where?? And where did that go? and I haven’t seen that yet! Just found the last of my cookbooks, the most important ones! Our bedroom is pretty functional, and we can usually find our clothes when the laundry is finished. The kitchen looks better yet today and I don’t think I have anything  yet to put in it except the dishwasher that got unloaded into the basement! We see floor space everywhere but the dining room and living room. I told Joel every time I go to the hardware store it ends up being more work for him! I never remember it taking so long.

We did take a vacation day and went to Baltimore for our anniversary. It looked like last year’s anni, but shorter….. and considerably less expensive!  We took a picture of ourselves and I totally lost it. It’s not in my folder or ‘flickr’ and I cleaned out my camera. I did that last year, too.

Well, if you don’t hear from me for a while, I am desperately trying to finish this unpacking job. I need a desk and a sewing machine and not the bottom of yet another cardboard box!!! Anybody wanna help? I’ve got Lemon Dream bars in the freezer! To keep me from eating them All At Once!