Hi everyone, sorry we haven't posted lately. We've slowly been getting more and more boxes unpacked, but we're still not finished. The only rooms that are 100% finished are the kitchen and Kaylee's room. Well, actually, I still need to put up the pink & brown polka-dots on Kaylee's walls but I'll get to that next weekend probably. Kaylee's bathroom is almost finished, but we still need to buy a few more things after we get paid. Right now, the "office" is the holding room for about 12 more big boxes. We put up lots of pictures today, yay!! I don't have them all up yet, but the majority of Kaylee's pictures are up, man did I miss those! We will still have more though as soon as I can get the family pictures that Colby took for us.
Jon starts his new job at Anderson Paper Company tomorrow in Ferndale. He'll be taking the car every day since it's easier for me to take the bus right now. I have an interview on Tuesday with a temp company, so hopefully they can find me something ASAP. I'm still able to work at the legal services company that I'm temping for. I think I can still work there the rest of this week, which will be very helpful! They are so nice there, and it really would be a neat place to work if I was going to be here long-term.
Kaylee starts her new daycare tomorrow too!! Daycare has been one of our biggest points of anxiety throughout this move. We knew that we needed to get Kaylee into daycare as soon as we could, simply because that is all she has ever known and she LOVES to go play each day. The problem was, I didn't know anything about the centers here and I wasn't sure how we would coordinate drop-off/pick-up with only one of us having a car right now. Well.....apparently God had that under control too because we just so happen to be located NEXT DOOR to a daycare center! Now of course, I did lots of research before picking this one merely for convenience. It turns out that they have 3 centers throughout Bellingham and Ferndale and have been open since the early 1990's. There are many opportunities for the children there, especially when they get older. So, every morning I will take Kaylee for a short stroller ride to daycare, drop her off, then take my bus to work. I'll walk over to the center to pick her up afte 5pm too. It's actually good that we will be walking because their parking lot is tiny! I'm so excited though, and we've been telling her that she is going to go to her "new class" tomorrow :) and she's happy. She still asks about her old classmates and teachers every few days but now I think she knows she gets to make new friends.
We visited a church this morning here in Bellingham, WA. I won't say the specific name here, only because I am going to point out why we are going to continue our search. Kaylee did wonderfully in the nursery though. As soon as she saw the other kids she went right in! This church has a membership total similar to that of our home church Victory. We decided to attend the 8:30am service because it was closest to when we used to go at 9am. Well.....the service was just dead. The worship was out of date, with songs that we used to sing when I was on the praise team in high school. We're talking 10+ years behind. Granted, we learned that they were in search of a worship leader, but still. They had a HUGE stage that was equipped wtih lights, fog machines, and sections for multiple instruments, but none of those resources were being utilized. It was very strange. I think we became spoiled to the awesome worship team of Victory :) because we were pretty bummed. Also, the audience was not engaging at all. Out of 200 people I saw maybe 5 that were into the worship. At Victory, you'll have a hard time finding 5 people that are NOT engaged in the worship service! So, skip ahead to the teaching. Their head pastor's name is Grant and he is very young. He's probably in his early 30's? He has wonderful potential, but we were not challenged by the sermon today. We did not learn anything new, and scriptures were taught generally, not specifically. Jon and I both knew this is not the place for us but I am still SO thankful we at least went. I sent an email to one of the pastors at Victory asking them for any suggestions. We want a church that is not afraid to teach the ENTIRE Bible, and a pastor who will not sugar-coat the truth. An awesome worship ministry would be a plus too, and a loving nursery is essential. I know we will find one, but we're headed in the right direction.
Hopefully we can find an internet plan sometime soon. I need to cancel my internet card service with Verizon this week. The service here is just not up to the speed I need for school. Like tonight, I can get on here or browse all I want but I can't keep up with the multimedia needs of my online classroom. Hopefully we can find something reasonably priced. I'm also going to try to find Kaylee a pediatrician this week. She will need to be updated on her exams after she turns 2. Which reminds me, I need to figure out what we're doing here for her birthday! Aaaa, I hadn't even thought of it yet. Good gosh.
Well, I better head to bed since I have to get up early tomorrow. I hope everyone is good. We're so thankful to have such wonderful family and friends who support us. We're also extremely blessed to have gotten a gift from my mom which will help with daycare for the next 2 weeks until we get Jon's first paycheck. Mom, if you are reading this, I love you so much and I miss you more than you know. I can't wait until you come to visit for Thanksgiving!!!!!
