Monday, August 31, 2009

First weekend in Marshfield by ourselves

Two weeks after moving and of course we are not settled in yet. Christine has done a wonderful job unpacking, but we have to much stuff to be completely unpacked.

I finally finished the deck yesterday, after way too many trips to Menards to get a drill bit extension. (It is surprising how many of the extensions are actually bigger than the 3/8" diameter whole I was drilling.) We tried out a church that happened to be in the middle of ministry week, no sermon at all...hmmm...we will have to go back again to get a sense of what a service is like in general. We also found a place to walk and bird, the McMillan Marsh Wildlife Refuge is just north of town. Not much for birds this time of year, but it was nice to get out for a couple hour walk and pick a handful of blackberries.

The girls were fairly well behaved but we have a few issues to address with Michaela. When we are outside she likes to go around the garage; which entails entering the back garage door, running through the garage and around the outside back to the deck. For the time being it is too scary letting her out of our sight while she is running, the road is very close.

Michaela does not mind time-outs anymore, so we have moved to the draconian measure of losing a bedtime story when she misbehaves. Two days and only one story so far, which is not good considering she starts with two a day. I think she has missed the idea of gaining extra books by being good.


The girls are still enjoying their play room, finding toys and other entertaining items (mostly bathroom stuff) spread out in the room.

2 comments:

Aubrey said...

Did Michaela get a hair cut?!?!? I bet the girls love having a whole room for them to play in! BTW, it'll take you WEEKS to really settle in. Enjoy it! :)

Cindy Gold said...

Not sure why you think you could possibly be settled in already! I truly believe we still have a box or two up in the shed from when we moved into our house back in 1991.

I bet the girls really love playing on the deck. Have you put a gate on it to block the stairs?

We were actually home this past weekend and went to church..... it felt really good. :o) Love, Mom