Life in Irving

6:30am -- David leaves for work. I don't know what time he wakes up or what he does b/w getting up and leaving. I wake up and throw on clothes. This is different from getting dressed -- this is simply putting on something you can walk outside in, usually includes a hat.
6:45am -- wake up Samuel, feed him, make sure he puts on his uniform and gets his shirt tucked in correctly.
7:30am -- Jeremiah & I walk Samuel to school. If you thought we were close to school at our house in College Station, we're about half that far from school here and most of this walk is through the large playing field behind the school.
7:45am -- the bell rings for school to start. Jeremiah and I then play on the playground on our way home.
8ish -- Jeremiah eats breakfast then watches his morning TV while I get dressed (this includes decent clothes, make-up, hair improvements, etc.)
8:45 on Tues/Thurs -- Take Jeremiah to his preschool. Yesterday was the first day and he did great! We're really blessed to have found this place and to already know people there (the little boy across the street from us, Tate, is in Jeremiah's class)
-- This week the time b/w morning TV and naptime has been filled with shopping, getting stuff for the house. Today Jeremiah & I went to McDonalds for lunch.
12:30-1pm -- put Jeremiah down for a nap and pray he goes to sleep since it's significantly earlier than his nap used to be. (On Tues/Thurs I pick Jeremiah up at 1pm)
2:30 -- wake Jeremiah up from his nap (there's something wrong with this in case you were wondering) and go pick Samuel up from school.
2:45 -- Samuel gets out of school, we all walk home. This is followed by snacks, playing in the game room, playing outside, any number of things until Daddy gets home.
4:30-6 -- David gets home sometime in this window.
6ish -- eat dinner as a family. We've been able to do this a lot in the last 2 weeks, it's been very enjoyable.
7:30 -- Start getting Jeremiah ready for bed.
8pm -- Start getting Samuel to bed.
8:45pm -- After the boys are both in bed, David and I start unpacking the last of the boxes, hanging pictures, hanging hooks on backs of doors or various assundry of other things to make our house more like a home.
10:30-11pm -- crash in bed and sleep really hard until 6:30 the next morning and we start again.

All in all, it's good! Samuel loves his school and has already made quite a few friends. What a blessing -- and his teachers are an answer to prayers. Thank you for those prayers -- God has been very faithful.

Here are a few other things that have happened recently.

Sunday night, David's parents came up and spent the night. David & I realized how ready we were for people to come over. Being "just the 4 of us" is fun, but we really like having people around too.

Tomorrow night, Jilaine is coming for dinner. She used to go to ComChurch and now teaches at Irving HS. We're excited about getting to know her better and seeing what the Lord has in store for her and us.

Friday, Brad & Laura come up to find their apartment. We are really excited about them coming this weekend, but especially about them moving up here. Only a week and a half. Yea!!

And I'll close with a funny story: I mentioned that Jeremiah and I went to McDonald's today. We had just sat down in the play area to eat when a rather large, attractive black man walked straight up to me. He said, "Is this your son?" I said yes and he handed me a small tub of Carrot Oil Hair Strengthener. He said, "After you wash his hair, brush it and put this on it." He may have said more, but I was too flustered to hear the rest. I said, "You are an answer to my prayers." He smiled and left. He turned back around and said, "Put it on everyday now." I said, "Will do." And then he was gone. I have no idea where he came from or where he went. I wondered if he carried this stuff around looking for poor, pathetic white women who have black children and are completely ignorant of what to do (although I have asked LOTS of people, and tried several products, none of which have worked very well). Anyway, you can probably surmise from this story that my youngest son is looking a little nappy today. I'll cut it all off soon, that'll solve it. :)

I'll post pictures soon -- especially of Samuel in his uniform b/c it's REALLY cute!!!