We’re pretty much settled in at this point. Riki and I have both gone back to work and the boys are back in school. The house is 90% unpacked and put together. I still need to hang some stuff, hook a few things up, and do some good post move in cleaning. We ordered a shower door for our master bathroom from Lowes that should be installed here soon, which will be nice as I’m getting a bit tired of trucking upstairs every morning to use the boys kid sized thing. We’re also waiting on a new tv stand I ordered from The Oak Furniture Shop, a small company based out of Wisconsin. It’s supposed to be finished near the end of the month and hopefully will get here before the rest of my junk from Korea shows up.

This entire move, while stressful and a ton of work, went about as smoothly as I can imagine any move going. We’ve only had one problem, that being our main computer won’t turn on anymore. It’s down at a computer shop here in town right now as the insurance company needs a repair estimate. It’s a bit of a bummer as it had all our financial data, music, etc on it, not to mention all our televisions were hooked up to it for all the nifty Media Center stuff, but it should be fine once it’s fixed.

It’s a bit odd being back here. I’ve only moved back to the same place once before, that being when I returned to Crystal Lake for my last year of high school. Returning to work has been interesting. The 325th Bomb Squadron is gone, now designated the 13th Bomb Squadron, but it’s amazing how many of the people I used to work with are still here. The sense of deja vu walking through those halls again for the first time was overwhelming.

I’m pretty happy about the schools up here, they are so much better than the garbage that was being offered down in Arkansas. The boys have music and gym and art class finally, and for the first time I’m seeing Logan being challenged by what he’s learning. Conner will only be in the school he’s in now for one semester and then he’ll start first grade in the fall over in Ridge View where Logan is currently going. I had a chance to walk around the facilities and talk to some of the staff over there when I registered Logan for school and I was quite impressed. Arnold Drive Elementary where the boys were going before always just felt so oppressive and run down to me, this place is a breath of fresh air. Logan has a “girl friend” already, although Riki doesn’t like him calling her that. He gets all giggly when we mention her name, it’s pretty funny.

I hope the new year is treating everyone well. It appears to be sleeting out right now, the weather has been all over the place since we’ve been here. We’re both really missing all our friends back in Arkansas, but we’ve been so busy it’s hard to dwell on it too much. Once we have everything all set up and fixed I’ll be uploading some pictures from Christmas and the move and what not.