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Well so ends another weekend in the household of the Dillers. We have sadly come to the resolution that we are going to commiserate with our fellow Iowans and spend the winter here. We’ve already had a couple of inches of snow just this week, and I don’t think we’ve had any days that have been above freezing (I don’t track this too well so don’t quote me). So BLAH. Christina and I decided this after much thought, the trip wasn’t going to be long if we did go, so what is the worth of going to good weather and coming back to crappy weather. I have about 2 wks of paid time off at work so I think we’ll make use of those during this winter and get some stuff done with our business. yay !!
Bouncing the subject… I was so glad to receive a package of yummys from the church matriarchs!!! I guess they made some time to take care of our kids and make food for the parents!! I have to admit, this is one of the reasons why Iowa just rocks, nowhere in my travels have I encountered such a loving church family. I was blown away when we had Maeve, cus for 2 weeks we ate like pigs, because people in the church made meals for us, and now this! Sooooo… for those of you that don’t live in Iowa, stay where you are!!! Once mid-March comes along, THEN move to Iowa (I hope Kirk & Karla read this …).
I guess there’s not much more to tell. I’m proud of us because our house has had a good semblance of order for the past week. It’s amazing how much nicer and less stressful life is with a clean house.Well got to go!! Oh a funny!! The other day we were praying for lunch and we were going to watch “the office ” and so I finish, and Maeve adds her little tag “an Gamma (grandma), an Tapaw (grandpa), an Michael!!!!” hee hee I guess if you don’t watch the Office then sorry, and you should really come out of the cave and get some fresh air! Apparently she knows who he is!! ha ha!! Have an awesome week!! For those of you in IA, pray for God to have mercy on us.
David for the Dillers
Lets start with the latter… “twas the night before thanksgiving ,and all thru the house every creature was stuffing it’s face probably even the mouse”, and so it went with thanksgiving day , the day after, saturday, and yes potluck 5th sunday at church !! I think it goes without saying that I am dieting or at least trying to excersise some sort of much needed moderation with my eating . I think i was a bit too happy go lucky with my diet . I didn’t really eat anything at work so i was hungry all day , and therefore felt justified in gorging myself when supper came around. I’m packing a lunch now, and trying to limit my calorie intake to about 2059/day which should get me to losing 2.5 pounds a week. I hope to someday get to 200lbs which would be where i should be , i think. Im a bit concerned with the “extra me”, i know for a fact that i should do some sort of physical activity, but truth be told , its hard to find the time and resovle to do it.
Eddy was here , and singlehandedly gave a boost to the US economy by buying pretty much everything that crossed his sight. I guess it can be excused since all the stuff he bought has about a 75% price hike in Costa Rica. It was very good to have our southern friend here , we had alot of fun with him, and Maeve was duly spoiled by him. Another source of spoilage was the ever spoiler aunt Kimberly. The Chandlers made their yearly appearance for Thanksgiving, and helped us with the gorge-fest. They also gave us the Aunt Kiki treatment which is much fun for everyone, always unpredictable , but always fuuuuunn!! I think the world would be a better and funner place if everyone had fun relatives (cus i had lots of fun with Tim also, I didnt see Morgan much tho, but i’m sure she was fun for those that were around her) from the South.
So yeah it was one of the more memorable Thanksgivings fun, family friends and food . Now for some fwork.
Salute ,
David , for the Dillers
Well i’m not really one for making fun of people , but this is just hilarious . I figure if she went on public tv in her own country then i don’t she cares . Anyways … here it is courtesy of our friend Eddy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo
Yes, I know, it’s been ages! I did start to write something a while back, but didn’t get around to posting it. We have been trying hard to adapt to everything here again. One wouldn’t think it would take this long to get acclimated again, but it really is taking this long. When we first got back we had to figure out new cell phone service, cause we were d-u-n DUN with contracts. We had to get our van insurance back up and running – we actually drove around without it for a while, cause we forgot. It turned out that the van needed new tires because of winter weathering – woohoo. We also decided to get a new internet service because we left our expander in Costa Rica. Then there was of course all the dreaded unpacking and whatnot. Our small apartment became unbearable in a few short hours. It was truly depressing to be here. Thankfully, we actually hardly were here at all, because of all that running around, not to mention running around with Eddy visiting us for two weeks also. We ate out a LOT more than normal, cause we are also still adjusting to David’s new hours – 8-4 instead of 6-2… this also meant that Maeve has been going to bed much past her bedtime, much too often. We also all managed to get sick with obnoxious coughs. The lack of sleep may have had something to do with that. Maeve was pretty under the weather, while I got off the easiest and only have had to blow my nose a few times amidst all the coughing. The sun hasn’t been shining as much as would be nice to lift our moods in the past week. It’s been a little hairy. Thankfully we seem to be rounding the bend, health wise. We were both feeling ready to jump off our balcony, or at least have a good cry this evening because everything felt like it was piling on top of us so bad. There is, of course, much more I could blather on about in reference to our very full lives, but it’s all a long story and hard to explain – what is that verse? Paraphrasing, no one understands another’s heartache and none can share its joys. Something like that. I know that we all tend to over simplify each other’s lives from the outside looking in. But yeah, in reality, we all have a lot on our plates and the grass is not really greener anywhere. Hmm, well, if it is, you’d probably find there ‘s some well-spread manure making it grow. And while we may think we’d like to experience someone else’s grass, I’m pretty sure none of us has any desire to be exposed to their manure. In these times when I’m at my wit’s end, I’m still SOOOOOOO thankful for the life God has given us. We are blessed. We hope to get some pictures up soon… various obstacles there, too, but soon… we also still need to file taxes. Priorities, you know. I wrote this while I was waiting for one of the necessary documents to magically appear. But now I need to eat something and then back to the grind. We should probably go to bed, too. Before I go, I want to give Eddy great accolades for cleaning up our place for us on Monday while we were at work. It was an incredible blessing, and actually, an incredible feat :-) He was a stellar guest. Here’s a little blast from the past – like a week or so ago:
Last night, in the weird state between dreaming and waking, I found myself “casting out” a blanket hanging over our window, or maybe it was part of the crib by our bed, “in Jesus’ name”… freaked David completely out, since he happened to be awake at the time, and he misunderstood me to say “leave us, please!” in a rather low, sluggish voice (I was surprised I was able to get anything audible out at all – if you’ve ever had a dream where you’re in slow motion, you’ll know what I mean. It’s like your mind is half awake – enough to take some information in, warped though it may be, but your body is not awake at all, and can’t move. When I am having a bad dream and am coherent enough to recognize it, I shake my head really hard to try to wake myself up – which means that it might be slightly moving in real life, I guess. Dreams are truly fascinating business.) Anyway, in this case, I saw something in front of the light coming in our window, and in my head at least, put out my hand to feel what it was, but there wasn’t anything, so it freaked me out. I wasn’t awake to realize that it was the blanket that David had hung over part of our window to keep light out (which I couldn’t reach). Anyway, I was just awake enough to realize that I wasn’t really awake and enough to realize that I managed to get some of that out, out loud, and enough to be surprised and kind of amused that I did speak out loud.
so two pieces of our luggage are still not here… they are supposed to be here today, but then they were supposed to be here on Friday, too, so no breath holding going on here. At first we thought, hmm, annoying, but not that big of a deal, whatever. Over the last five days we think of more and more items in those bags that are more than a little annoying not to have, however. For example, the batteries for all of our clocks. I personally like when clocks tell the right time. It’s also nice when they work at all. It seems to be pretty hard to get out the door anywhere close to the right time when we have no clocks. Hopefully that problem won’t continue after we get our clocks back. Have you ever tried shaving without the handle to your razor? Like with just the little head attachment? Not recommended except in dire situations. I wish I had never tried it. well, no one got hurt or anything. Um, oh yeah, I really would have liked Maeve’s Easter dress to be here for her to wear on Easter. It also would have been cool to have her little birthday plates and hats last night when we celebrated her birthday with our family here.
28 years of goodness :-) God really loved me the day he made David! I hope your today is wonderful, Diller!!!
This reminds me that we missed someone else’s birthday! We thought of you the day before, Mayela, but in all the craziness of leaving for OH we forgot to even call on your day!!! Please accept our chagrined apology! And we hope that it was a good day…
Yes, we went to OH for a long weekend and it was marvelous! Kirk and Karla are ever the gracious hosts and do such a wonderful job of making everyone feel at home. They were so sweet as to let us sleep in their bed! Baby D has really gotten us the special treatment a couple of times now :-) They cooked an utterly amazing brunch for us on Saturday – mmmmmm, and Kirk made a lot of fires to keep us toasty warm. It was great to see my LA girls again, and it’s so crazy how much everyone hasn’t changed! Well, we’d like to think we’re all more mature… seriously, though, we laughed a lot!!! Good for the abs. “it was so strange, it had to be real.” we didn’t do any reading outloud on the way home, though…
