Easter

We are M-O-V-I-N-G!!

Things at our house have been wild and crazy.  I'm not really sure exactly when it happened, but sometime at the beginning of March, we decided to move.  It seems like it was almost by accident, but we are really excited.

We've decided to buy the house my Mom and Dad moved out of last fall.  Many people think I "grew up" in that area or even in that house.  Although I sometimes feel like I "grew up" in Minden, I did not. My parents actually built that house and moved into it when I was a freshman at Lyon College.  I did visit there during Christmas holidays, spring break, and most of the summers for four years while I was in school.  When I graduated, I lived there for three weeks before getting married.  So, yes, it is the house my parents owned, but I've never truly lived there.

The first question most people as is "Why?"  I guess from the outside it probably looks like an unusual location.  It is actually the wrong direction considering where Chad and I both work.  It is much farther from our home-away-from-home, Wal-mart.  However, it has room!  The house is not a huge house by any stretch of the imagination.  We will still only have 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.  However, I am proud to say that I will have a utility room!  No more laundry in my bedroom floor.  If I had a dime for every time someone came to visit and saw me folding laundry in my bedroom floor, I could afford to pay someone to do my laundry.  

Back to the "why".  Aside from the room inside the house, we will have lots of room outside.  The girls are really excited about climbing trees and roaming in the woods.  I am excited about level ground for bikes, trikes, etc.  Chad is just a little excited to finally have a shop.  He is a patient man.  Since we got married, he has wanted a shop.  Several times along the way, we discussed building a shop.  Each time, he chose to put the wants and needs of the rest of us above his own.  Finally, the man will have a place to call his own.  It's a big shop that will accommodate his project truck as well as the tools required to work on it.

While Chad is hanging out in the shop, I fully intend to embrace the idea of Dickerson Farm.  After we get settled in and re-adjusted to life in the country, I have plans.  I want some chickens.  I don't want a lot of chickens, but I've never had a chicken.  I want a couple of chickens so I can have fresh eggs.  I would also like to raise a few baby chicks.  I have already spotted my garden space.  According to my mom, I have a green thumb.  I hope she's right.  I've grown tomatoes in buckets the last few years, but I'm branching out.  I want some tomatoes, purple hull peas, squash, and onions.  And probably the project that I'll regret the most...bottle feeding a calf.  I hope to find a calf that needs to be bottle fed within a year or so.  I know it will be a lot of work and I'll be frustrated with the time commitment, etc.  However, I want to share the experience with my kids.  And of course, I LOVE to drive my Daddy's tractor!! 

So, things are busy.  The last month has been crammed full of painting, packing, and purging.  We've acquired a lot of junk in eight years in this house.  And naturally, we would undertake the huge project during one of the busiest times of the year.  March and April are the busy times for my new job at school.  They also tend to be busy times at Dunn Transmissions, Inc.  Taylor is in the midst of gymnastic competitions while Kennedy is getting rolling with softball season.  BADkid is anxiously awaiting her third birthday party.  She has graciously requested a Cinderella-Minnie Mouse-horse birthday party at "Mimi and Popsi's house".  We may never convince her that it will be OUR HOUSE.