Our house... is a very fine house.

The new house is working out great. I can't keep Kemiah inside. She will go out the door, grab her shoes and then walk around. She doesn't ever get them on but she'll carry them around with her, find me and want me to put them on or she'll just go out without the sandals on at all. The kids have all adjusted and I haven't heard any complaints.

The biggest difference is the roof. The last house has a flat, cement roof. This one is vaulted and tin. So when it rains we hear it. I guess mostly when it rains really hard, which isn't all the time so we'll be fine. We love all the space and the yard.

Kevin cut down some bamboo tonight from across the road and will work on making a stand for the tire swing, and teach Ben some lashing skills in the process.

We got all the line strung up for our laundry but still no washing machine so yesterday, I put all our dirty laundry in the stroller and hoofed it to the old house to use the washer one more time. I felt okay about it because that was the last day I told the landlord we would be out by. Hopefully we'll get a Christmas surprise and the washer will show up tomorrow or next Monday.
I am getting the hang of all the light switches. There are some we still don't know what they turn on and there's one light that we can't seem to turn on at all - the half bathroom in the hallway. It really is a lot of switches when you take in to count the electrical outlets all have switches on them as well so that instead of unplugging things, you can just turn off the outlet.

The doors all fit tightly but they also creak and you have to make sure you close them properly or they won't latch and then they won't stay closed.

The breeze is great. I hope it's like this all year round. I love having the windows open all day and night. I get to hear all the birds during the day, and I really wish I had a pair of binoculars, and all the sounds at night. Now maybe if only I had some skylights in my bedroom so I could fall asleep looking at the stars. That would we really cool!

And did I mention the river? I love sitting here, in the living room, and hearing it out there, along with all the other noises. We haven't gone to play in it yet, but maybe tomorrow.

I think I say that too much. Maybe that's what this is all about. I have too many tomorrows planned. But what am I doing today? I won't be too hard on myself because I'm not doing that bad. I just need to slow down, take some time to enjoy the here and now and not push so much off to tomorrow. I need to let the clutter fall away and focus on the really important things. Even without all the extra stuff that the States offer, I seem to make my own clutter. We don't have soccer, lessons, games, or other activities and still we don't go to the pool, or the river so Ben can fish, or whatever. I guess we do alright.