The Move is Complete

I'm sitting here in my new office on Sunday morning, blogging. I've been closing out all of the services this weekend, and since I sat through the service last night, I'm just popping in close enough to the end and am spending the rest of the morning piddling around, posting updates, and sending some emails.

YAY!!! So far I'm not missing my office downstairs at all. My furniture arrangement (which I played around with on paper beforehand) seems to be working well. I need to get artwork on the walls and all will be complete. Didn't take long at all last Thursday to get all of the furniture put in. My biggest challenge was getting my computer hooked back up properly to the network. Kathy, one of my downstairs "neighbors" thinks I'm going to hate all of the commotion of the upstairs hallway, but I think I'm pretty good at tuning things out, especially if I've got music playing. And I can always shut my door. The move IS helping with motivation. I'm much more peaceful about coming in here than I was downstairs. I don't think I ever realized how much the clutter was affecting me subconsciously.

We're getting together with last year's Zambia team this afternoon. The 9 of us have remained a pretty tight group and try to plan get-togethers often. One of the team, Kris, is leaving in a week or so to do a year-long internship at a Young Life camp in North Carolina. So this is a "send off" of sorts....an opportunity for all of us to see her before she departs. We're meeting at a park, and everyone is responsible to take care of whatever food their family wants. It's been so hot and humid this past week (heat index over 100 some days) that I'm desperately hopeful the temps won't climb that high. Not sure how Emma will do in the heat. It's been way too long since we've gotten out to take a walk because we both would have melted!

I bought more jars of baby food yesterday. Yes, I caved. After a pea-spitting incident in daycare, and watching her gag repeatedly on carrots, we've decided to revert back to the baby food and hope she'll make an easy jump to table food. She did eat some whole green beans at a friend's house the other night. And she loves little pieces of bread. She just can't figure out that she needs to release the food when it gets to her mouth. The daycare provides lunch for kids who are old enough, and I highlighted the menu on Friday indicating which foods she can start to try -- with supervision. Green beans, peaches, pears, carrots, pudding, juice popsicles, and a couple of others I can't remember.

Yesterday was a SWEET day with Emma. She was happy all day long, took great naps, and then was ready to go to bed by 8:00. Slept until 5, ate, then fell asleep in my arms (LOVE IT!) and went back to bed until around 7, at which time Jon got up with her so I could snooze a little longer. Oh, what causes a day like that? If I knew, I'd reenact the day as closely and as often as possible.

I know I need to post some new pictures. I'll probably take some today and then will have to load 'em up.