The Turcotte Bunch: September 2011

So it's move-it-all-outta-the-apartment week!
We had a ball ministering alongside about 15 new friends at the nursing home last Saturday
in celebration of Cypress Bible Church's BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS outreach day.
SaraKay, Daniel & I played a whole lotta BINGO with the residents and SaraKay's new friend even won a round w/her help. Daniel was trying to keep up with 2 different bingo cards, so it was a good challenge and it stretched him, both mentally and spirtually.

Greg unbended and rebent wire coat-hangers for about 2 hours to help them prepare for their next in-house craft - the yard doggie. Gotta say that it looks like more work than it's worth, but then so much for my two cents!
I also did a couple of manicures for the residents and that was fun. It's been a long time since I actually had to FILE DOWN someone's nails. Skay and I are both nail biters (yeah, I know... nasty habit) but I have always justified the habit with the piano teacher montra: short nails lead to faster fingers on the keyboard!

Sister-and-Brother-In-Law Barry & Adele came and helped Greg move a whole bunch of boxes and odds and ends out of our storage unit last Saturday. What a blessing! Greg's goal is to have it emtied by Sept. 30th, so that we don't incur another month of charges at "Uncle Bob's Storage." Come on baby... we can get 'er done!

This week, the kids and I have been trekking back and forth from the apartment to the new house with all sorts of odds and ends that won't "pack" well this weekend. We

SCHOOL most all day between 9am and 2:30pm over here at the house and then I've let them swim in the pool... what a reward!!

Saturday, we are hoping to have several new friends from our small group at church help us move furniture and our freshly REPACKED boxes from the apartment over here to the house. We are grateful for anyone who will show up.
I'm hosting a hamburger and hot dog lunch here at NOON to motivate all of us!
Then... let's change out of our nasty clothes and get in that awesome pool! Please be praying for the safety of Greg, myself and the other adults and teenagers that help us move this weekend. We are so appreciative of the help!

Here's a few pics of the last week... they'll be a lot more cardboard in my next three days... for now, it's just school work, weeding, and painting to the __th degree for this mama!

SaraKay helped babysit a friend's little girl while we painted bedrooms.

I love DATE nights though - and am very thankful to have one a week again now that we have the kids in an evening activitiy that allows us one night of total freedom. It's wonderful. Blessings. ~K

My friend, Lauren, from the apartment complex, came and helped me get started painting Monday morning.

Today, Greg the kids and I are going to rock out calling out BINGO with lovely elderly people, possibly give a few manicures to a few 80 year old beauties and then move a ton of boxes, with the help of Uncle Barry & Aunt Adele, from our storage unit to our new house's garage. It's going to be a day of helping out around town, beginning with Cypress Bible Church's "Breaking Down the Walls" visit to the Nursing Home Facility. at 10am.
http://www.cypressbible.org/

We have closed on the house here in Houston! Hip, hip, hooray!

We closed on this house, Friday, 9/16,2011.

I must admit, I wish we were home-owners of only one house at this time, but we find ourselves humbled and hoping in faith that our house in Vidalia, Georgia will sell before the year is out. Our realtor there told us the average time on the market is 13-16 mos. Yikes.

Onto the happiness... 13 Blessings
1. We have a new home.
2. We will be making many small trips to and from the apartment to the house and back over the next two weeks to deliver boxes o'stuff.
3. Our move date is OCTOBER 1ST.
4. God may have provided a renter to take over our lease here at "The Club At Stablechase" a month early. PTL!!!

5. SaraKay's eyesight warranted her getting glasses, and they just came in. They are darling on her and she is very excited to have them.

6. We have started attending a small, Bible-study group, on Sunday mornings at Cypress Bible Church. The group has a lot of different types of couples and a few singles. Our leader is also Daniel's 4th grade Sunday school teacher and he is a gem. His name is Terry.
7. We have been attending worship at CBC for 5 weeks now, and are praying about whether or not God desires this to be our new church "home."
8. Both kids are involved in AWANA at Northwest Bible Church in Spring, TX, just about 20 min. away from our apartment. It'll be about 10 min. away from the house. Skay is in her last year of SPARKS and Daniel is in his 2nd year of TNT - Truth-N-Training.
9. I am homeschooling BOTH children, somewhat successfully. We have our rough "days" but fortunately they are few. Daniel is using K12's TxVirtual Acamdemy curriculum for 4th grade; SaraKay is being taught using ALPHA AND OMEGA'S Language Arts courses and HorizonMath2. I supplement History, Science, and Greg is teaching PE in the evenings to them both.

10. Daniel & SaraKay are attending Spanish-1 and ART classes from 12:30pm - 2:30 pm on Wednesday afternoons at WWHP Prep school.
http://whheprep.org/newsite/instruction.php

11. WE are all going to our first AGGIE football game in 9 years today (Sat, 9/16) and daddy is especially excited. We are taking our nephew, Ryan Turcotte, out to dinner and to the game for his birthday, which was this past Sunday, 9/11.

12. We will be living at 13504 Schroeder Rd #4104 Houston, TX for two more weeks.
After that, please send ALL mail to:
8218 Forest Ridge Road
Spring, Texas 77379
13. Our home number is my 'forever' cell phone number: 817-975-8347
Here's is a photo journey of our past couple of weeks.