sticking their booties in the air

well, well, well, it's been a while my dear friends. i am hoping to be a bit less bi-polar in the near future :) but i can make no promises. this is my first post from our new home. it's the beginning of a very special journey.

today marks two weeks and one day since moving into our home. today is the first day we have had internet since july 20th. that is 20 days without the luxury of click and find... copy and paste....google...fb...email...etc.. we have missed it. others around who have been my internet "looker uppers" are glad we have it. i realized what an internet world we live in. even the process of getting internet requires information from the internet. today, for the first time in probably 6 years i used a phone book. like a flip the pages, find your place-alphabetically, phone book.. i know, i was desperate. so back to being in our home. while, it is not the home we thought we would be living in, it is a beautiful gift. a house that will, in time, become our home. mark hung up our kitchen clock which was still set to EST, i cried. i forced myself to change it to CST b/c i freaked out twice today thinking i was running behind :) it's appropriate that the clock went up first. each passing second, minute, hour, day, month, year is a gift. just like our new home. for obvious reasons i will not be posting pictures of our new house on the blog, nor will i be giving out our new address.... but, i will be sending out an email to our friends and family with the pics and the address.

on to today's topic. yesterday we went to the zoo. we had a perfect day with perfect company. it was anderson's first trip. he was a hoot. he loved ALL of the animals. when we got to the gorillas we all found ourselves laughing. *laughter has been a missing element in our home for the last 20 days* while, the gorillas are incredibly strong and fast, they are plan ole' nasty. lucy just kept cracking up saying, "their sticking their booties in the air! their sticking their booties in the air." and they were. every time they went to get water, up went the bootie. i took like 2 pictures yesterday, but found this one online. it made me laugh. gorilla booties are funny, nasty, but funny. and we needed something funny in our life. i might just print off that picture and hang it on my fridge.  for a good laugh. or just to hear lucy say," their sticking their booties in the air!"

happy tuesday,
~s