We're here, but missing there.

Our Van with Minnesota Tags

Hello all, sorry it has been a while since my last post. We have officially moved to MN. Well, I guess it isn't official since all our furniture and most everything else we own in still in GA. However, we are as officially here as we can get until our house in GA sells. By the way, if you have extra praying time, please say a prayer that our house sells. We desperately need to be able to move out of this cave, er I mean apartment, into a house.

A lot has happened to the Sheek family since my last post. We visited NC for a week which was great. It was a much needed vacation between saying goodbye to GA and hello to MN. However, leaving NC was hard. Wade drove the 20 plus hours with the cat. Isn't he a saint?! The kids and I flew up on Saturday, May 31st. That my friends is an adventure, trying to get myself, two kids, three backpacks, one carseat and a double stroller through security and onto an airplane. And of course, no one wanted to help.

Since we arrived in MN we have spent most of our time unpacking and trying to cram everything into the apartment. The highlight of the apartment for the kids has to be the salt water tank in the foyer. In it are fish that look like Nemo and Dory from the movie "Finding Nemo". Both kids have to go and check on the "nemos" several times a day. Maddie enjoys being able to push the button for our floor on the elevator. Sam likes to think he can too, but needs Sissy's help finding the 5.

On Sunday, we went to Woodale Baptist Church which is just down the road from us. Neither Wade nor I were that impressed with it. It is a HUGE church and the staff wasn't particularly helpful in finding things like where the kids go and the sanctuary...you know the "minor" things in a church :) Of course we have to remember that no church is going to be like NFBC and that it will take a long time to feel at home somewhere other than home. It think it was harder on me, since I was more involved with the children's programs at NFBC and was therefore more "at home" there. All I wanted to do was "go home". Oh well, someday hopefully here will feel like home too. I just have remember that God is in control of this whole situation and I have to place all my trust in Him. He knows the end of this great story and has placed us where He wants us.

To lighten our grim mood after church, we took the kids swimming at the apartment. Yes, the pool was thawed enough to swim. Actually, the water wasn't too bad.....the air that hit you above the water was another story. Nonetheless, the kids had fun. We also took them to a local park with a beach after their naps on Sunday. We had a great time on the playground and walking in the sand. Maddie is certain that she found sharks' teeth among the pebbles....I told her that they probably weren't, but didn't have the heart to tell her that we are a LONG way from that kind of beach.

We are looking forward to finding more parks and beaches....there are tons of lakes around here...thus the whole land of 10,000 lake thing. We are taking it one day at a time and trying look at this transition as a great adventure....I figure that one day, when Wade and I are old and grey sitting in a rocker back in the south, we look back on this say, "Remember that time we moved to Minnesota???? (Wasn't that stupid of us - just kidding) Wasn't that a grand adventure!!"