1. New Car - A van actually. Since our family is expanding we needed a bigger car and Darrell convinced me that we needed to get one now instead of waiting until I'm hugely pregnant to test drive the vehicles. We sold our Honda Civic last Thursday (Darrell almost cried, it was a good car) and ended up buying a Honda Odyssey the next day on Friday night. I searched many different car websites and ended up finding our deal through Overstock.com Cars. If you're in the market for a used car, check out Overstock cars, I found deals on there that I didn't find anywhere else. We were espeically excited to purchase our van at this certain dealership because now we get lifetime oil changes there for free and they'll even clean & vacuum it too!
2. New Garage Door Opener - Our 20-year-old garage door opener has been on the fritz for months and we almost always have had to manually open it. It wasn't such a bad thing since I got out of the car to shut the door in nice summer weather, but because we opened it manually, the garage wasn't as secure as we wished. We saved up our cash-back bonus award and got a Sears gift card to get the garage door opener for free. We of course bought it on sale too at the the Labor Day Sale. Darrell spent most of the day out in the garage installing the new garage door opener. I'm amazed with what he can do! We opted for the opener with the lifetime warranty and all the bells & whistles so now we're set for life. Yeah! :)
3. New School - Salem started kindergarten today. Darrell, Oaklen & I went to take him to school at 8:10 in the morning! I was surprised that I didn't get emotional this morning, no tears. (I must have gotten that all out of me when I cried in the checkout line at Shopko a month ago when we were buying him school supplies.) He was excited and had a good day. One funny thing he said to me as I picked him up and we were getting into the van was: "I thought she was going to teach me like 30 + 30 or something, but she didn't." :) I hope he has a wonderful time in kindergarten. He may not learn as much as he hoped but we can make up for that at home if he's interested. He's learning at such a fast pace that I'm amazed. My hope is that kindergarten will be a good social learning experience.
4. New schedule - With Salem now in Kindergarten we have a new schedule. For months I was preparing for all-day kindergarten but last week they changed it to half-day because the enrollment was suprisingly high this year. I was bummed that they changed it but I'll just have to live with it and I'm sure things will work out fine. Since he's home by 11:00 each day, I've got to figure out lunch for the three of us. It was so nice this summer to just go over to the park and have the kids eat lunch there every weekday. I can't even remember what I used to do for lunches before summer!
I was planning on taking that same institute class that I took fall & spring semester, but now I can't because I have to go pick Salem up at that same time. We can still do story time at Barnes & Noble and go to the library twice a week so I'm thinking that the schedule won't be extremely different.
5. New wardrobe - The cooler weather is fun and gives me good nesting feelings. I need to change around Oaklen's clothing to switch to fall gear. It was nice for Salem & Oaklen to share some clothes this summer, there were many shirts & shorts that fit both Oaklen & Salem (or at least Salem convinced me that they fit.)
I'm not excited about sock weather. It's time to put away the sandals (I already put away my white ones of course) and get out regular shoes. Sock laundry is my nemesis and it's been so nice to only have a few pairs of socks once in a while in the laundry pile.
My belly is expanding and the baby bump is starting to be more like a pregnant belly rather than a frumpy blob. I haven't gotten out the maternity clothes yet but I need to soon. I conveniently have a couple shirts that are the maternity-shirt-style that are trendy right now that I wear often to make me feel more comfortable. I'm hoping that because I will be pregnant during the winter months instead of the summer that I can wear more of my regular clothes since sweaters & sweatshirts are a little more roomy. We'll see.
So, that's my list of things that are new in my life. What's new with you?
4 comments:
Yay for Salem going to school, he looks so cute. Congrats on the new car/van! Glad we could talk a little, we will definately have to see each other over Christmas.
It sounds like lots of great things are happening in your life, I am so happy for you! I cannot believe Salem is off to kindergarten! Congrats on the minivan, my brother and sister-n-law just made the move as well and they are so happy about it!
Heather! Congrats on all of your new ventures! So good seeing how you're doing!
Hey you guys! I like the looks of the mini van! When Jill and I come down there for Thanksgiving we will need to come say howdy and see how the place is coming. Oh and congrats I heard you have another on the way. when is it due? I hope it comes about when ours will be....yes that is right there will be a little Cam or Jill running around Oregon in about 7 months. we are due end of April or the first of May. Hope to talk to you guys soon!
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