Category: Updates

Noah’s school had a musical production featuring all the first graders. “Nuts” featured a number of songs that the students worked on over 6 weeks. Noah even had lines to learn (he was Chicken Little).

The link includes video, which can be kind of long to load and to watch.

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Kaara’s preschool had their annual Mother’s Day Tea on the Tuesday before Mother’s Day. We got an apron and a jar of chocolate chip cookie mix this year. And of course the annual interview where the teacher asks the child questions about their mother and writes the answers down for the parent to keep. Once again, my children think I’m OLD. When asked how old I am, Kaara’s answer was 100!

Mother’s Day was low-key with all the moving and overtime Pat has been working. I got a certificate for a lunch at Beaches or a trip to a lighthouse. Hope to redeem that sometime this summer when things settle down.

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We spent the better part of January and February house hunting. We made an offer on a short sale that was a fixer but title issues and slow response from the banks led us to move past that one. After looking at 15 houses in 2 months, we made an offer on a bank owned home in good condition. We signed the first time on Monday, March 30 and were supposed to record by April 3.

However, a mistake by the foreclosing attorney on the deed to the bank resulted in a 4-week wait for the deed to be corrected. That necessitated two rate lock extensions, redoing our loan documents, getting an addendum to extend our contract with the seller, and resigning all the new paperwork on April 22. Finally, we recorded today. Although Noah has the stomach flu again (the last of it to get it this time instead of the first) and Pat was working so we can’t go to the new house again until at least tomorrow night, if Noah is better by then. 

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Noah competed in his first Karate tournament in Forms and Weapons (the escrima stick).

He was very good on intensity and on his moves but we found afterwards that he was supposed to have made up a “routine”. He just practiced the basic moves they did in class and that’s all he did.

Still, he showed a Black Belt attitude about getting his two medals and not a trophy. We know he wanted a trophy and was disappointed he didn’t get one but he really did a great job looking at the positive. We are very proud of him.

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