Homeless - Part 1

After closing on our house last Friday, we became officially rid of our house of 10 years, and officially homeless.We went through a lot of options of what to do after our house closed. Go to Fort Worth, but then we would have to take Adilyn out of school. Move into an apartment, but then we are stuck in a lease for at least 6 months. Travel, but then we are spending money and Adilyn still has school. See if people will take us in for a couple weeks at a time until we find a place...sounds good! Luckily we have fantastic friends, so we had some options. I was really worried about wearing out our welcome somewhere, so we decided to move around a little bit. We started off at Shane and Dana's house on Friday. They were out of town on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, so we made ourselves at home over the weekend and got settled. The girls were a mess all weekend, super whiny and weird off and on, until the boys got home. The minute they were here, they were off playing together on the trampoline and in the playroom. It was great! Everyone got their homework done, we ate dinner, and had a peaceful bedtime. Could it really be this easy? 6 kids 7 years old to 5 months old, 4 adults, 3 cats, and 2 dogs really can coexist in a 4 bedroom house! Fantastic!
Then, the weekly routine set in. Mason and Wyatt get on the bus about 7:30, and we have to leave to take Adilyn to school at 8:00. Adilyn woke up super grumpy, and she kept saying that she didn't want to go to school. I was really worried that she wasn't going to get out of the car when I took her to school. We made it to school on time, and she just jumped right out. Success! Kacy, Brooke, and I headed back to the house where we hung out until it was time to go back and get Adilyn. It is quite a drive, 30 minutes there and back, twice a day. Brooke usually falls asleep in the car, and Kacy sometimes does, too. The boys have TaeKwonDo on Mondays and Wednesdays, so everyone else stayed around the house and played and got dinner ready. Again, calm dinner and peaceful bedtimes. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Dana works and Hudson and Kacy go to school, so it's just Cory, Brooke, and me at home for some of the day. Unfortunately, Kacy's and Adilyn's school times don't coincide very well. I drop Addy off at 8:45, and Kacy can't be dropped off until 9:30. In the afternoon, I pick Kacy up at 2pm, and I can't pick Adilyn up until 3:45. That's a looooong time to just drive around aimlessly! I thought that I would go to the Y and workout in the afternoons, but I couldn't find my tennis shoes, so that was a bust. I was literally in the car at least 1/2 the day! Oh well, that won't last too long, thank goodness! Anyways, we all had a great, yummy dinner complete with everyone's favorite, green bean casserole. (And by everyone, I mean Dana and me!) It is amazing how well everything goes in the evenings. It is a very short period of time that everyone is together, but it still has worked out great! I am so thankful to the Hrobars for opening their home to us. Great friends like them are hard to find!