So now I'm a Virginian

Who would have ever thought that?! We're here and have been for 9 days now. I don't even want to get in to the move down here. I really think God's helping my block that from my mind...LOL! If I said it was uneventful I'd be lying so we'll just leave it at that...lol. I think we were doing pretty good until Mike almost drove the 26 foot long Penske moving truck with a trailer towing one of our vehicles along with our daughter in the passengers seat off a mountain but we won't get in to that...lol. No sense at all in bringing up bad memories now is there? LOL! Ultimately we made it here alive. I wondered about 5 or 6 times if we would though. A time or two because I wondered if we'd ring each other's necks at the next rest stop...lol. Driving over 1,400 miles with kids and animals in tow is definately not the most fun thing I've ever done. Nor is driving behind your spouse who's driving a huge moving truck carrying everything you own in it......and following the GPS that he insisted on putting in his truck which in the end took him through some back roads which were not meant for moving trucks. Oh, and he also took the atlas with him too. So we're driving through a place about an hour or so from here called Charlottesville right and I'm supposed to follow him. Well, he's going say...I don't know 55 or so. I'm following along at 55 and notice a speed limit sign for something like 35 when I pass a street and notice a cop pulled in right behind me so I had to slow way down. I think he saw my Texas tags and wanted to give me a ticket because he kept following me. I tried to call Mike on my cell because I noticed he was getting really far ahead of me and I didn't want to miss a turn...you know...since he had the atlas and the GPS (why both?!?!) so I didn't know where the heck I was going and what do ya know....I can't get a signal on my phone in this little town. Imagine that. I couldn't speed up either because those cops were right on my tail. It finally really ticked me off so I pulled in to someone's driveway until they passed. I finally got back on the road thinking I'd catch up with them until I get to a little place called Gordonsville and wouldn't ya know the road splits off threee different ways and Mike was nowhere to be found (with my baby in the truck!). Why yes I was ticked since you were wondering for several reasons...lol.

A. Mike had the GPS
B. Mike had the atlas
C. I couldn't get a cell phone signal
D. Those cops that were bored caused me serious issues...lol.
E.. Mike didn't even notice I wasn't behind him. Joshua had to tell him when they were over 10 miles away from me! LOL!

After putting in a collect call to my parents I did mange to eventually find them and I was speechless for a while. That was one of those times that it was best to not talk at all..LOL! Gosh...and I said I wasn't gonna bring up bad memories...lol. Moving along...

We did finally get to the house and I was disappointed to see that the previous owners didn't bother cleaning anything so I started with that. I was up after midnight the night before we left cleaning for the new people. I didn't expect it to be spotless but grief. THe kids love the house. It's a whole lot bigger than our house in Texas was. They love that it has stairs and the first thing they did was grab their slinky to see if it really did climb down them..lol. The poor dogs..and poor me...lol. Walter is a very overweight Dachsund and he can't climb them so I have to carry his chubby body up them and down them. You have to go down a lot of stairs to get in to the backyard so that stinks. Sally gets up and down them just fine. Poor Dollie, bless her little heart. She's scared to death of them. I think she thinks she can fly because she just dives off the top step. Luckily I've been there to catch her a lot but she has taken a couple of tumbles. I have to really watch her because I don't want her to hurt herslef. If I go downstairs she just hangs her paws and head over the top step looking at me like "what about me mom". LOL! Here's a pic I took of the front of our house. Here are a couple of pics I took of the forest. This is what I see when I walk out on to our deck. It's so pretty and when the wind blows the leaves sound like a waterfall. I love that we have a gate back there that we can open and walk in to the forest.










I still haven't made my way out too much. The two places I can get are Wal-Mart and downtown Fredericksburg. The reason I know how to get there is because that's where Everything Cross Stitch is. LOL! Thanks to a couple of people giving me gift certificates I've already been up there a couple of times. The owner already calls me by name when I first come in :). She remembered me from my visit there when Mike & I were house hunting the first of Sept. She's really nice and is the first person that I've met here besides our realtor. I'm looking forward to going to some of the stitching get togethers at the shop. I really love downtown. It's very pretty. I love the entire historical district. They've got some really neat and unusual shops down there and I'm looking forward to doing some Christmas shopping at some of them. There's a vintage candy store that I think is really neat. It kind of reminds me of that candy store on the first Willy Wonka movie. I do wonder if I'll ever find my way around this place....it's definately nothing like Texas. As for making friends, I really have a hard time doing that. I've never had a lot of friends but the friends I do have are good friends. I'm really just not all that social. Not that I don't want to be, it's just when someone's right in front of me and I don't know them at all I have a hard time starting up a convo with them.

I'm doing fairly well. I'm missing my mother and best friend something horrible though :(. My best friend's grandparents were ina horrible car accident last Sunday that killed her grandmother. It's just been eating me up that I'm not there :(. I was there for years and years and she didn't need me for anything like that and then right when I leave..*sigh*.

I still have a lot to tell but it's getting a little late. The Comcast guy just finally got here today to hook up our high speed internet. I tried dial up for a couple of days but that was so not working. I have no good feelings about dial up LOL! Having to re-connect 5 times just to get a single email out is just not my cup of tea..lol.