So I've finally had a free evening to update you all on the comings and goings of the Scotts this last week.
So this week I passed my Alaskan driving road test. Phew!! Would have been fairly embarrassing to fail when I've been driving for 13 years. But I managed to overcome the nerves, forget the cold and ignore the fact that Lydia had me up for half an hour in the night, and pass. So I am now the holder of an Alaskan driving licence. Now to get Pete one. His trouble is finding the time to even sit the knowledge test let alone the driving test. He is incredibly busy with work at the moment but continuing to enjoy the new challenges.
As I've just mentioned, Lydia has been a bit of a mischief this last week or so. She's been up in the evening or overnight for most nights. She's had a cold but it doesn't seem like that is what's bothering her. I think it's more of a separation anxiety thing as she stops crying the second we go in and starts again as soon as we close the door when we leave. Not sure what to do really. Hopefully she'll get over it soon. She did manage to last for about 20 mins in the crèche at the gym this week. I went during the afternoon and it was really quiet in there, so maybe that helped. I did a really, really short run and came back, expecting her to be screaming and she was fine. Lots on this coming week though but I'm hoping to be able to take her again so she gets used to being in there.
An exciting event this week was our sea freight from Australia arriving. Yippee!! Was so good to see some of our things again. But we are now surrounded with boxes and 2 sets of furniture (ours and the rental company furniture). We had also made a bit of an error with timing and invited all the neighbours on our street over for a party at the weekend. So we had to apologise for the state of our house as we all manoeuvred around everything.
But having said that, we had a very successful party. We'd only had 2 houses who told us they were coming so we weren't expecting many people but in the end, lots turned up. We had a great time and Naomi loved being around the other children (mostly girls). Apparently in summer, everyone is out on the street lots and all the kids run around together. That will be something to look forward to.
I joined a book club this week. The lady who was our relocation agent here invited me to join her group and I went along this week. Was a lovely evening. We all had dinner together and discussed the book along with life in general. They meet once every other month which is a nice amount as I don't have tons of free time to read. So hopefully another forum to make new friends.
In amongst all that we've tried to do some unpacking although there is still LOTS left to do. I put up some Christmas lights outside our house and in the playroom. Yes I know it's quite early but other people here have theirs up and we are leaving to go back to England on the 16th December so they have to get their use for the year. Naomi gets really excited by the "pretty colours" on our neighbour's house so I wanted to have some on ours too for her to be excited by. So even though ours are far less impressive, she still seems to like them.
We also bought ourselves 2 La-Z-Boy recliners this weekend which is our Christmas present to each other. Very exciting. Just hoping they'll fit in our lounge room. We'll do a proper measure once all the rental furniture has moved out tomorrow. We can still change our mind on the new recliners but I'm hoping we don't have to.
So this week holds Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful invite for thanksgiving from someone at the mums group at church I go to each week. I had met this lady once and she sent me a message asking if we'd like to come over to their house on thanksgiving. Thanksgiving here is a big family event so I'm very touched that she's asked us to join her family. Unfortunately though we've had to say no, as we'd decided we wanted to use the long weekend to potty train Naomi. Eeek!! So please say a prayer for us as we run to the bathroom at lightning speed over and over and we enter this new phase. Fingers crossed she gets it quickly.
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