I'm really bad at posting here lately. I know that so many of us don't really blog much these days, but I do like to update from time to time as it's been a decent little family journal over the years.
Life here in Texas has been really good so far. The winter weather is a lot warmer than the winters in Nebraska (though I am finding myself missing snow...weird but true). I miss our neighbors. I'm sure that our neighbors here are awesome and wonderful but we have really only waved and said brief hellos so far. I need to change that. One of our neighbors did stop by on New Years Eve and gave us a bag of goodies and introduced herself. I loved that she did that and now when I see her I can holler, "Hi Irene!" instead of just "Hi!"
The kids love school. This school is really wonderful and their teachers are amazing. Cadence actually has homework now which, while annoying, has been very good for her. She has a much better appreciation of her own time as well as other peoples time. Rory is reading. It's choppy and she gets impatient when she does read, but it's coming along. She adores her teacher. I do too. She has been teaching Kinder for 25 years I think she said. Yep the same grade for all those years. She loves her job and it totally shows. The school has also been taking Rory's dietary needs seriously. I had one meeting with the woman in charge of food preparation, went through the school lunches with her and what Rory could or could not have and by the next day every single person working the lunch line not only recognized her, but gently reminded her when something had soy in it so she wouldn't chose it for lunch. Rory has started to grow out of the milk intolerance and can have cheese and yogurt now with out trouble, but soy still causes issues. I was truly impressed with how quickly the school did it's best to meet her needs even though they aren't life threatening.
Church has been wonderful. It's probably the first time we have been in a ward where we didn't get callings within two weeks of moving in, which has been nice. I still don't know very many people, but it has been awesome to attend the adult classes the last couple of months.
I miss Nebraska. I miss all the people we left behind (thank you internet for keeping us connected). I miss the small town feel that we had there. I hate starting over. We were so blessed in Bellevue. We had ready friends; next door and at church and even school. We found wonderful people to teach our children in their extracurricular activities and they became our friends too. I miss that living here, in this huge city with all it's huge city drawbacks, but I can't over look all the good things about living a big city either. We do have friends here (thank heavens for them or things would be pretty lonely), but I'm sure even they agree starting over stinks.
I'm glad that 2014 is over. Odd to say, but true. It was a really exhausting year. I'm thankful for all the new opportunity that is open to us now, but getting here was long and not something I'm keen on doing again. Brady was gone for so much of the year and that was harder on me than I thought it would be. I am forever amazed by my kids and their ready adaptability to every situation our life seems to throw at us. They are truly awesome kids and I'm so thankful that the Lord sent them to us. I am thankful that all the training is over though so we can all be together again.
I'm looking forward to 2015. It's going to be a good year I think.
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