Life as a single mom...

Nate has been out of town for only one night and I am already feeling like it's been a week since we last saw him. We are wishing him lots of good luck as he prepares for his interviews with Target in Minneapolis this week. He comes home the end of this week....and gets to be with us for a whole week before he takes off again for interviews! If all goes well, he will have more trips and we won't see him very much, but that means that he is advancing! This round of being a single mom is going much better than last time Nate was out of town. After taking Eden to her soccer practice, I managed to unlock the doors to our Explorer...put my purse, cell phone and keys inside, turned around to take Emry out of the stroller...only to have the wind close my door and everything locked up tight. We were so blessed that Eden's soccer coach saw us and took us home. Only for me to realize that I had no way of getting inside our house and Nate was in Denver for four days. So to make a long story short....I had two very dramatic kids crying to know where we were going to live and how are we going to walk everywhere like the pioneers. I only had call six different locksmiths to finally find someone who actually was a locksmith...it only cost a small fortune to have him unlock our car.....I only had to involve one neighbor to borrow cash, because the locksmith wouldn't accept checks....but it is all over now. And this time things are going much smoother! Only all day, Jack keep saying, "Mom, you locked our car....and you locked our house.....and we don't have anywhere to go?" each time we were in the car. I think he sensed that dad was gone and we could be in for some more trouble if he didn't remind me!
We hit the ten month mark that our house in Boise has been on the market. Wow, I never would have thought that we would still be dealing with it! But we are and we are amazed at the blessings that keep pouring on us, so that we are able to make two house payments. I have become increasing obsessed with "Scentsy" and making headbands. I think that Nate must be enjoying his time away from hearing me talk of my business plans! I must admit, I quite enjoy having something of my own to do...now I just need to make all my plans a reality and start helping with the two mortgages!

homesick more than ever for our good friends in Boise

Okay, this is my first attempt at blogging....I hesitate to begin on more thing - but after Amber showed me how to set this up....I need to give it a try. I just love reading what is going on with all of our good friends and family, and I think it is a wonderful way to keep a journal of our family and every time I read Amber and Brent's blog, Jack thinks that he is Carter and wants me to tell him what Jack is doing in each picture. Well, with that here I go....

We just arrived home after spending a week up in Boise to do yard work and sign with another realtor on our home in Boise. Hopefully, it will sell soon! It was so wonderful to see our friends, family, and old neighbors. Leaving Boise was just as difficult this time as it was when we moved six months ago! We had such a great time visiting and seeing everyone, that for a moment I forgot that I no longer lived there! It was very surreal to be back in our old house, now all vacant. Jack had a tremendously fun time bowling in it! Nate did so much work to get the yard looking nice again! So we all have our fingers crossed and are continuing to pray that it will SELL!

We stopped at Jodi's on our way up to Boise...and Eden was invited to spend the week with them. So of course she naturally would rather spend her time with her cousins than with mom and dad, and had a terrific time playing with them. When we arrived at Jodi's, Eden saw me and yelled, "Mom....I need to hide" and ran off into another room, so afraid that we would be leaving that very minute. Now that we are home, Eden finally has the time to talk to me. I do wish that we had more time to just play and visit with everyone, a week just isn't enough time to get everything done that needed to be done and get all the playing in that I wanted to do! But oh, how I loved being back in Boise! We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and we miss you all dearly!

Now that we are home, we need to get ready for this week. Eden begins school and soccer practice tomorrow. Eden's been out of school for ten days. Nate is headed to Denver on Thursday for work. He has a lot of traveling scheduled for this month in preparation for his interviews in May. He is doing so well right now, and we will most likely know if we will be staying in Montrose by July. Which I can honestly say that I do not look forward to moving one bit! We love the size of Montrose and have made some great friends here..it's just so far away from our old friends and our family! But for now, we are here so I'm not going to worry about moving yet!