Saturday, July 12, 2008

Plan B

OK, so the floor won't get done. But Annie will have her own room - freshly painted might I add. We decided to haul 27 rubbermaid bins, one large box and three garbage bags of stuff out of the second bedroom to a clean and safe storage area in Regina so we could have more living space at the cottage. We got two coats of paint on the walls today and tomorrow Tim will paint the floor. Then Annie can move into her own room on Sunday and we can get back to some semblance of order...without painted floors in the living room. We decided this will have to wait because we still have several appointments left before heading back. There's always next summer....

Annie wants to be back in Malaysia now. She's tired of the cold and rainy weather, of sleeping on the couch, of not being able to find her things that are spread out all over the cottage. She is very happy, however, to have Aunt Lana here for a few days. Aunt Lana is our new dorm assistant and will actually beat us to Malaysia as she arrives on July 22 and we don't get there til August 2.

Kaleb is counseling at Dallas Valley this week. We pick him up on Sunday - I hope he hasn't frozen each night like we have here. Then he gets in the car and practices, practices, practices for his road test on Wednesday. Stay tuned for the results.....

We have had so many wonderful conversations with people . Its always great to get a big hug and to have people welcome us back. Thanks to all who have encouraged us and gone out of their way to make us feel special. Here at Arlington, its like a homecoming for us and it feels so good to be so readily included as part of the 'family'. Everywhere we have gone and everything we have done since landing on North American soil on June 8 has been awesome!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Aunt Lana was also delighted to have had some time with the precious Archer's the last few days too. thanks for setting aside some time to visit with me, I felt honoured and blessed :) See you soon! :)