Finally starting to feel at home...

Well it was bound to happen...my mood has improved! Not dramatically mind you, but I do feel relatively human again! We were walking out of the mall this evening and I told Jeff I can actually see myself living here. That sounds like a ridiculous statement, but last week this time, I honestly couldn't look at the families walking around and picture us ever being that comfortable. It simply didn't seem possible...but we are getting there!

We had our first "family night" tonight. Fridays we try to make pizzas and watch a family movie together. Maddy looks forward to it all week. Tonight was our first family night in Canada. We rented "Saddle Club" a movie about some preteen horse crazy girls. Right up Maddy's alley!! And let me tell you, I'd rather watch a teen movie with real people over cartoons any day!!! And as a special treat this evening, while the pizza dough was mixing in the bread machine we walked up to the park by our house and Maddy got to play on the Splash Pad. It's really a neat little spray park that just opened yesterday! It reminds me a lot of the splash park in Lawton, but this one doesn't have a life guard, which means the hours are a lot longer! It's open from 8am to 8pm. It's really cool, there's a pole with a sensor on one side...if you hold you hand over the sensor for 2 seconds the water starts. It goes off after 15 minutes...that way if there aren't any kids, there's no water. It's on the same property as a large playground. If we take the walking trail behind our house we can be there in five minutes...it's close, but still far enough away and through a relatively thick forested area, so when the soccer field is added next year we won't get the craziness that brings with it!! We really lucked out on the location of our house...I'd love to say we planned this wonderfully, but luck played a pretty big roll!!

So after an evening on the splash pad, then making our pizzas, and watching a horse/preteen movie I think Maddy is feeling pretty good!! Not to mention that all of this excitement followed her very first program at the Military Family Resource Center! She got to make lunch and then have a teddy bear picnic!! Wow!! Could life be any better??? LOL Yes, as Maddy informed us walking home from the park, it could if our house was in OK. I guess it just takes time...that's what I keep telling myself too!!