Here is our Bei-Bei, taking some of her first steps today. Hard to believe.
Harder to believe is all that’s happened since last I blogged… we celebrated Bei-Bei’s first Easter, she got a bunch of teeth, we moved to Virginia, we unpacked, and unpacked, and unpacked. We had a garage sale (which sucked) and then donated that stuff to Diversity Thrift so that we could continue to unpack, unpack, and unpack. I must give credit to K-Mom for doing most of the heavy lifting with the unpacking (except the actual “heavy lifting”).
One challenge is that our previous house in Bentonville was a builder’s home and loaded with all the built-ins you could imagine, which we had loaded with “stuff”. We never had to get rid of anything… there was always a place for it. Now we have more stuff than places.
Another big project is the Garage. The Bentonville house had three bays, about 30’ deep, an 18’ double door, and a 9’ single… 1,200 square feet (imagine Tim Allen grunting here). The new house has two and a half bays, a 16’ double and an 8’ single… 600 square feet. More stuff without a space, yes, but we have a finishable attic (now crammed with “stuff”) and a basement. The basement, for the most part, is filled with Grandma D’s “stuff” as she waits for her house to sell in Pea Ridge, AR so she can begin looking for her own place here in Richmond.
In the meantime, W-Corp is going through a restructuring that involves lay-offs and changes in strategy that isn’t making life at the office quite what the brochure made it out to be. No worries, though… this is the nature and cycle of things.
Last weekend, Memorial Day weekend, was our first non-unpacking weekend since we got here (which is not to say we are done with that… but, hey, it’s a holiday). Our niece, Madison, who lives with her dad in Raleigh spent the weekend with us.
Saturday we spent the day at King’s Dominion amusement park, which is about 20 miles from our house. Sunday we hung out at the house and went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. Then on Monday we braved the crowds at Virginia Beach. I’ll close this post with some pictures from our day at the beach.
Yep. He's under there.
Harder to believe is all that’s happened since last I blogged… we celebrated Bei-Bei’s first Easter, she got a bunch of teeth, we moved to Virginia, we unpacked, and unpacked, and unpacked. We had a garage sale (which sucked) and then donated that stuff to Diversity Thrift so that we could continue to unpack, unpack, and unpack. I must give credit to K-Mom for doing most of the heavy lifting with the unpacking (except the actual “heavy lifting”).
One challenge is that our previous house in Bentonville was a builder’s home and loaded with all the built-ins you could imagine, which we had loaded with “stuff”. We never had to get rid of anything… there was always a place for it. Now we have more stuff than places.
Another big project is the Garage. The Bentonville house had three bays, about 30’ deep, an 18’ double door, and a 9’ single… 1,200 square feet (imagine Tim Allen grunting here). The new house has two and a half bays, a 16’ double and an 8’ single… 600 square feet. More stuff without a space, yes, but we have a finishable attic (now crammed with “stuff”) and a basement. The basement, for the most part, is filled with Grandma D’s “stuff” as she waits for her house to sell in Pea Ridge, AR so she can begin looking for her own place here in Richmond.
In the meantime, W-Corp is going through a restructuring that involves lay-offs and changes in strategy that isn’t making life at the office quite what the brochure made it out to be. No worries, though… this is the nature and cycle of things.
Last weekend, Memorial Day weekend, was our first non-unpacking weekend since we got here (which is not to say we are done with that… but, hey, it’s a holiday). Our niece, Madison, who lives with her dad in Raleigh spent the weekend with us.
Saturday we spent the day at King’s Dominion amusement park, which is about 20 miles from our house. Sunday we hung out at the house and went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. Then on Monday we braved the crowds at Virginia Beach. I’ll close this post with some pictures from our day at the beach.
First is a sequence of Hobbs' showing off his most excellent boogie boarding skills...
Yep. He's under there.Here is Calvin, happiest near one of his two primary elements (the other being fire).
SPF 150 works just fine for Grandma D and me...
Cousin Madison takes a break from the waves...
And finally, this shot of K-Mom introducing Bei-Bei to her first wave.
