My First Official post Since Leaving Virginia....

and it has taken me this long because the 3G isn't working as well as we'd hoped! But we are there, and so far are loving it!  Gosh, where to begin.... well, for the first couple of days, Eric has been building a second storage shed so we will actually have someplace to put all our stuff!  So now we will have 2 buildings for storage (so far!). I have been inside the house furiously cleaning and re-organizing to blend some of our things with what's there... not an easy chore, because I don't want to look like we're taking over.  But we have got alot of stuff... how does a family of four accumulate so much????

Anyway, the boys have had so much fun hanging out and exploring....  we left the "hill" the other day to go into town to meet my sister-in-law and kids to go to her friends farm to pick blueberries.  This is a BEAUTIFUL farm that sits on rolling acres, and is a u-pick.  The owners are also homeschoolers, so my SIL thought it was also a good way to meet fellow, veteran homeschoolers, since this was an event just for the homeschoolers of the area, before the official season opens this weekend.  How nice of him, and so very generous!  We got the most delicious blueberries (10 lbs.) and had a ball!  The people we met were so very welcoming and warm.  Eric and I felt at home and look forward to getting to know this group more.  The boys made some new friends, which was the main reason we went.

Which brings us to the present... Eric and I are in Richmond to get the big Budget truck and empty out the storage unit.  Things were great (although we had left a breezy 79 degrees to come to a balmy, muggy 105 degree storage unit!  And you wonder why we left the Richmond summers?!) until we had the LAST box of the evening, and I had a minor accident... the box was soooo heavy and I was JUST about to tell Eric not to drop the one corner, but before I finished the sentence, he dropped it on my right hand, which hurt so bad that, without thinking, I yanked my hand out, felt tremendous pain and saw a good deal of blood.  Turned out, I had totally cut open the knuckle of my ring finger on a nail head that was on the loading dock, between my hand and the box!  So Eric and spent the next 3 hours in Patient First getting me 8 stitches around my knuckle, between the ring finger and my pinky....

So this post is taking me forever to type!  And we have a friend who came to the rescue to help Eric get the remainder of our stuff out of the storage unit today, and another friend who is helping at the receiving end in West Virginia.... a HUGE thank you to both of them for helping us out of a jam!

So now we are on our way back to WV today, where we await chicks, due to arrive beginning of next week, and get to swim in the pond every afternoon (well, not me... at least for a couple of weeks!) in the beautiful mountains....

We miss everyone....