Bits of this-n-that...

A whole day since I posted...I can hear the weeping and teeth gnashing from here! :O)

This is a link to our RV park which looks like it's going to be home for a while - even if we find a house very, very soon it will still take a month or so to finalize all the details.
http://www.caspereastrvpark.com/

Life in the RV Park...

...The good: the pool, laundry gets done in one session in the laundry area, housework is minimal, the playground, lots of places to ride bikes, the bunnies, the feeling of being perpetually on vacation, the simplicity of menus and cooking our camper requires, more time with the kids/family time due to us sharing smaller living spaces, no lawn to mow/gardens to tend, the children becoming each other's best friends since they are together so much :O)

...The bad: no laundry in my own home, a certain amount of anxiety in bad weather, dirt normally spread over a regular home by an active family is concentrated into about 200 square feet, feeling the "earth move under my feet" (I'm with you here, R.!!) due normal instability in a trailer, our camper mattress :O(

...The ugly: very little privacy, very little privacy, very little privacy. When on the phone with a friend (thanks for calling, B.!!) last night I headed over to the laundry to put a load in the dryer. The little boy there with his momma followed me around saying, "Hey, hey, what are you doing? What are you doing?" At least he is blatant with his invasion - usually it's much more subtle [and usually unintentional] but when your home is six feet from the next person's home, you definitely provide [and are provided with] some entertainment. The folks next to us have a rig the same size or smaller than ours in which reside three adults, one nine-month old and a dog! They are apparently full-timers. They are very nice but we often hear them, the baby cry and smell the smoke from the cigarettes in a big way. It's been interesting to try to teach the children that we give people their privacy and even pretend we CAN'T hear/smell/see them even when it's very obvious we can! And, in case the folks next to us ever read this, I want to say again how nice they are and how totally unintentional the privacy "invasion" is. :O)

We looked at houses again last night. We ruled out the two-story green one that I had a link to in the last post. The dining area is just too small with no way to make it bigger. We looked a long time at the other - sorry, still no link available. I like it a whole lot. Todd's not sure. We looked at another house he looked at a while back that needs lots of updating. Todd really likes that one. I'm not so sure. Isn't that the way it goes? :O) Not sure at this time what our next step will be.

Brennen is REALLY excited that the Lego Indiana Jones Play Station game is released today. He is buying it with his own money and has no other plans but to play that today. :O) [His mommy might have other plans, though.]

Yesterday Brennen and Kindrid judged each house they saw by whether or not it could support a rock polisher, a machine Brennen is going to build to automatically shelve polished rocks and a place for folks to come in and buy them at $10.00 per rock. (!) He and Kindrid have figured the math so that if they sell ONLY 100 rocks/day they will each earn $500.00 a piece. "But we won't sell them every day, Mom, we'll have to take some days off to hunt rocks." And, "Hey! If we home-school we'll have more time to look for rocks." And, "I'm only going to sell the rocks that look like there is gold in them so people will buy them." This last bit led to a discussion on honesty and Brennen admitting that he wasn't going to tell folks it wasn't real gold. This, in turn, led to a tearful declaration on his part that, "FINE! I will lower the price to $9.00 a rock. BUT MOM [much louder wailing here] then I can't do the MATH because it's NINE not TEN." The whole deal also led to both Todd and I having to take a stand on allowing strangers into our home for rock shopping. He finally agreed that a stand out front of the house will be OK and the Internet MIGHT work. "But MOM, that's a lot of envelopes and mailing stuff." Always gotta keep an eye on the overhead! :O) Anyhow, if you are in the market for $10.00 a piece polished rocks, just let me know. I know a budding entrepreneur that I can hook you up with!

BTW - Kindrid intends to buy American Girl dolls with her cut. Her wailing upon lowering the price was, "But I wanted to buy millions of them, not just 4 or 5." Now, if you have a girl-child any time in the last 15 years or so, you know how much each individual doll costs. Any girl having 4 or 5 is a blessed little girl indeed. Not sure how we are going to break it to her that NO house we buy will have enough room for millions.

No end to the fun!!

Hope your weeks are off to a great start!
Love,
Christy