Together again!

It has been a delightful past three weeks! Sharon and the younger two boys have arrived! I could not be happier.

The house sold successfully, after a heroic effort by Sharon to get it ready to market.

The kids are still pretty bored. Paul has taken up skateboarding, in addition to video games, and we are getting him a keyboard for his 13th birthday (which is TODAY!) Chris found a health club across the street which is open 24 hours and has a basketball court. They're both doing their best to stay occupied and stay positive. School starts September 1, so we are hopeful that the boys will make friends and get settled in better when the pace of life picks up for them.

We have really enjoyed the family time. The boys are home, and not running about, so we are having dinner as a family every night and watching '24' together. The kids have always been really busy with friends, and activities, but for this brief hiatus it is a true pleasure to just hang out together without all the running about.

We really didn't have time to get to know the community in Madison, so rather than purchasing a house, we are renting a townhouse. It's a good bit smaller than the Ohio house was, so we are spending a good bit of time sorting through the (embarassing amount of) stuff in the garage, to be kept / placed in storage / donated / recycled. Our goal is to be able to get a car into the garage before the snow hits!

A great piece of news is that Sharon has, indeed, been able to keep her job! We set up her workstation in the master bedroom, where she can open the windows and have daylight and fresh air while she talks. We are both very blessed and fortunate to have such great jobs that we enjoy!

This entry is mostly autobiographical, catching up with the details of life. I doubt if I will promote this one to the world. But in response to the critic who responded to my previous blog ("Is it really necessary for you to inform the WHOLE WSU FACULTY when you have something to say?")- my response is this: it's called, keeping in touch with old friends. I'll not speculate whether or not my critic is familiar with the concept :) But, I will keep my WSU friends appraised of topics of interest periodically, and send a special thanks to the respondent who enjoys my ramblings. I do have some academic ideas to float, so I hope it will be less then 3 weeks before I post again.