August

Well what a month August was!! With our lease ending and no word on our offer for the house stress totally set in. We spent time packing, moving stuff to storage and worrying. We also started to look at houses all over again. At the very last minute we finally got the call that the bank had a counter offer for the house that we could accept or start all over, but it was still a good deal so we said yes and moved in with my mom for what was to be a quick 6 weeks at most. It was bitter sweet to leave the town were we had our kids and called home for the past 11 yrs, but we had to do what was best for us and them. Unfortunately just when we didn't think things could go any where but up this hill we had been climbing lead to a drop in the road we hadn't seen coming...
The first part of the trip down was the loss of my Uncle Butch. I will always be so grateful that I got to spend the day with him in March and be so sad that I didn't get to go say goodbye. I wasn't able to drop everything with the crazy puppy, the move in with my mom, trying to get ready to move into our new house and preparing for a storm as we were getting ready to send the kids back to school to go to Maine.
Then when we went for the home inspection there were a few things that had gotten ruined because of the house being neglected and left. The move in and get to the end of the year without anything major planned spending was out the window but we were still holding our head up.
Then the storm hit. No literally Irene blew into town and turned everything upside down. I know what I didn't miss about living in the boonies that when you lose power you have no water either. The kids school started on time so we had to get a hotel room to take care of them. If life wasn't crazy enough I now had to commute between schools, and two places of living neither of which being our home. We finally got the power back on Memorial day after 9 days. The day after Victor's Birthday. Yup poor kid had to celebrate his day with no power. Thankfully we did have some relief from a generator loaned to us from our Uncle Joel.

Story to continues in September..... But here are some pics...
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Rowan and Ethan get ready for storm Irene at the Science Center

Rowan hanging out at one of her favorite places the Science Center

Already for the first day of school

To cool to have to pose for first day of school pics

Wanted proof that I was still taller than Victor (barely) at the beginning of the school year

Birthday with no power!

11 years old