Yahoo and ptl

Now I can down to the real business of finding a job! Yippee!


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Pumpkin Patch

What a fun weekend we had with Grandmary last weekend! I have great pictures that I need to upload and post from crater lake. We could not have had better weather- truly truly amazing- warm- unseasonably so- and sunny.

After Vake had his soccer game, we went out to a local pumpkin patch- such a pretty pretty drive.


The two boys by the pumpkin patch sign...





Out picking pumpkins.


Vake is getting so so strong.





Sweet little Gil.


And then last Sunday, we carved up our pumpkins.





We are ready for Halloween around here. Vake is going to be (big shocker) James, the red engine from the Thomas series. Poor Gil is going to be his brother's tender. Good times.

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How's it going: Alison's job hunt

Well, about that.  I am now entering hour number two of cold calling lawyers in town.  Talk about depressing.  I think that what probably makes sense now is to send out resumes and see what starts to come back in to me.  Ugh ugh ugh.

Something perfect is going to work out.  Sometimes it just takes some time!!!!

How's it going: the housing situation

Ok. So when Eric moved here, we bought a really small (really really small) house in the neighborhood we knew we wanted to be in. There are a number of reasons that we made that decision, but mostly the rationale was that we wanted guests to feel as though they could come and hang their hats for a little while.

Suffice it to say that when I got here, that little house was bursting at the seams with too much stuff and then too many people with all four of us- which was actually not all that fair to this poor little house. So. This is where we truly got lucky. About three days before I moved, a house on my deal street in this same neighborhood but bigger came back on the market- and the woman who owns it was willing to let us rent it from her AND she accepted a contingent offer-so now all we need to do is sell the Boulevard house.

And I love both of these houses now. We got all of our stuff into the bigger house, and we are living with "rental decor" and a few less sofas than I'd like but it is ok because we are not stepping on each other! I've been able to totally repaint the little house and can now make some design decisions! Yeehaw!

Please please please 6 N. Boulevard find someone new to love it so that we can get fully settled here!


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How's it going: Vake's school

So there have been so many moving parts to this move that it makes sense to talk about one of them at a time.

Vake's school has been a great transition so far- he loves Miss Lisa and Miss Jenna and the paraprofessionals who work with the class.  Miss Lisa is an old pro, which I find very comforting.  It is a little bit different from what we were used to at First Baptist, where the focus seems to be on getting the children into Richmond's private schools, but this change isn't a bad one- I feel as though I may have "baby Vake" for one more year. 

If I could change one thing about the school, I'd make the school morning a little longer and have it be five days a week, but then again, when I think about the changes that Vake's had in his life in the past six months, I think that maybe this time that he and I are getting together while the world is moving a little more slowly is ok.

Can you believe it?

I've been working like a crazy lady to get the house ready for Mom's visit, but thought I'd take a short break and show you who looks totally grown up now!!!!!  This is Vake in his preschool picture!  My big guy!!!!!!