In looking through my archives, I see that I haven’t done a Thursday Thirteen post in over two months.  Of course, I’ve been without internet access at home for just about that length of time.  So it’s no wonder I haven’t been posting much.  The new internet is set up at the new house, and RT has promised to have one of his tech guys get me set up and running as soon as we move.  We’re at the point of not wanting to do ANYTHING at the old house.

I am writing THIS T13 post from work.  It’s a conference day - no kids at school - it’s my break, and I didn’t even take a lunch break today.  So I think I can take a few minutes for something personal.  At least that’s my rationalization. 

Anyway - here are 13 things that have happened or things I’ve learned or simple items of information since my last Thursday Thirteen post.

1.  We selected the granite for our new house.  The kitchen counters were installed yesterday, and they are gorgeous.  I didn’t ever think I would describe granite as “gorgeous”, but this truly is.  It has swirls of brown and black and grey - bringing out the color in the cherry cabinets and the stainless steel appliances.  It’s “wow!” but classy.  Beautiful!

2.  I had a birthday in August and celebrated 58 years of living.  It is nice to have people still act surprised that I’m old enough to be a grandmother.

3.  I started a new job - well the same job but in a different school.  I am still a reading specialist, but now I’m at the school that my granddaughter attends.

4.  Every morning, I go by my daughter’s home and pick up my first grader granddaughter, Sweet Stuff.  She and I go to school together.  After school, if it’s one of my bus duty days, she sits in my lap and punches the “all call” buttons on the phone so I can call the buses over the intercom.  She has also learned to check off the called buses on the monitoring sheet for me.

5.  This school is bigger than the school where I taught the previous three years - almost twice as big.  Having a bigger school means more responsibilities.  I’m working much harder than before.

6.  Our new house is almost finished.  Seriously!  We will move into it in just a couple weeks.  The flooring folks are there as I type this - putting the first coat of polyurethane on the floors.  They spent Monday and Tuesday sanding the floors. 

7.  The only things left to finish the house are:  Install the garage door (scheduled for Monday), install the shoe molding (after the floors are finished), install inside door knobs, door stops, toilet paper holders and towel racks, install carpet in four upstairs rooms, complete the final plumbing and electrical work, and complete the final drywall and painting touch-ups.  That’s basically it.

8.  We broke ground on the new house in mid-December last year.  So from start to finish, this house took 10 months to build.  It took several months longer than we had hoped, but from talking to other builders, we understand that actually we got it completed in good time.

9.  I will be one very happy person when we are moved and I don’t ever (knock on wood) have to think of moving again.

10.  Experience is a great teacher.  I’m pleased with how well I am adjusting to the new school.

11.  We had a mouse experience recently.  RT and I were awakened in the middle of the night to the sounds of mice munching on paper in his chest of drawers!  Thanks God it was HIS chest of drawers.  I guess God thought I needed a little humbling, and so the next night we heard them in the bedside stand a few inches from my head.  Needless to say, we immediately took steps to rid the house of the mice.  Words can’t express how much I want to move into the new house and away from that mousey old log cabin!

12.  This morning I drove over to the new house, and as I drove along that long driveway, there was a fawn by the drive.  I rolled down my window, stopped and just looked at it - about 25 feet away from me - a beautiful brown color with light spots - and its ears were so pretty - outlined in darker fur.  After a few seconds, it turned and took a couple bounds away, then stopped and looked back at me.  I drove on to the house so I wouldn’t scare it more.  Later, when I left the house, it was still there by the driveway - and it didn’t move as I drove slowly by.

13.  RT is a sucker for the two grandgirls.  We painted “their room” (our downstairs guest bedroom) pink, and RT picked out a pink and very girly chandelier to put in their room.  They love it.  I couldn’t have imagined RT ever picking out something so frilly and girly.  But when it comes to Sweet Stuff and Sunshine, he’d do anything.

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