Courageous Joy

The REST of the day

We headed for homeschool park day. There aren’t a lot of people that show up for this during the summer. Its in the a.m. and that is nice as it is the coolest part of the day. As it was it was 84* when we left the park at 11:00 a.m. I did get to meet a couple of new ladies today. That was fun. One of them had heard of me…..da da dum….I guess that 9 kid thing sort of goes before you….

We went to a new dentist today. I think he is going to be a keeper. They had two hygienists in and had scheduled no one in the office but us. The one hygienist has a basket of toys in her room and she had us all come back at once. She did Arielle, Nolan, ZANDER and I while the other one did Jared. No cavities! Yippee. I did have them put sealants on two of Jared’s teeth – they said tri-care won’t pay for it – but I told them to do it anyway. Zander has NEVER opened his mouth for anyone and we’ve been trying every 6 months for 2 years. He opened his mouth, let her look and even put some polish stuff in his mouth. Not a lot and not really a cleaning but she got a look. She said he has really bright, white teeth….she asked if I’d done anything to whiten them. Nope. Stacia got to sit on my lap and pull on all sorts of new things while my teeth were cleaned. The boys will go in when they get back.

Jared and Nolan needed shorts. We headed to Target and picked them both up a couple of pairs of shorts…then Arielle needed a new swim suit and I found some non-disposable swimmers for Stacia.

We met Mike at the base to return his driver’s license. That’s another story. I got to talk to Dayton, the Club Beyond leader at Elmendorf. The kids’ luggage was delivered at 2:30 a.m. That seems a bit early to ME. They were 3 hours late getting in last night because their plane in Dallas was delayed due to a medical emergency. Then they missed the connection in Seattle and had to wait for another flight. I was so glad we had built an extra day in for them between arriving in AK and leaving for Hoonah. They were all glad too. I’m sure they are going to have a great time. Dayton will be sending out daily updates….maybe I’ll post some of them here.

Krista’s been calling a lot the last few days. I think she is starting to miss us and wanting to be home for a bit. That’s a good thing. Bre called a lot a couple of weeks ago. If they both ever get lonesome during the same week no one will be able to call in to our house. lol

We tried to go swimming at China Beach but I forgot our pool passes. We had planned to meet Tricia and her daughters at China Beach - sort of – but she didn’t come and so we came home, grabbed the passes and drove to the pool at the Rec Camp – it is open until 8:00 p.m. We swam until 8 and now it’s time to be sure all kids are really asleep. Mike is still out.