Posted by taneya on August 30, 2005 under Uncategorized | 3 Comments to Read

I think I have been trying to make up for lost time from last weekend — I have been stitching like a madwoman! Here is my latest progress pic of Eight Immortals. I think i’ve gotten a lot done for three weeks worth of stitching.

Posted by taneya on August 22, 2005 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

My LNS finally has a website! Shameless plugging.. check it out at
http://www.stitchinpostnashville.com/

CATS was a bust for me — didn’t make it. I had a tough weekend due to an arm injury I got last week that I somehow aggravated further and Saturday I was just no good. I really regret not being able to attend as I was really looking foward to meeting some of the TWBBers.

And, Kaleya is walking! She purposefully can take 4-5 steps at a time now and it is so much fun to watch her. If I can get a video clip, I’ll post it.

Posted by taneya on August 19, 2005 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments to Read

I have an updated photo of my Eight Immortals. I like how it is stiching up so far. However, it seems when I purchased my threads there were a few colors I somehow missed, so there are colors I want to stitch, but I can’t b/c I don’t have them handy. I’ll have to run by the store this weekend and pick them up.

Posted by taneya on August 14, 2005 under Uncategorized | 3 Comments to Read

I think I am finally starting to feel more settled. We had a great week and a great weekend. In fact, today, I went with Kalonji to something he had to participate in for work and did my first official military wife act

One of the army reserve units in the area did a Family Day for their personnel and Kalonji was present to provide information about benefits and ID cards. We were there for almost 5 hours and met some very nice people. In fact, I think I’ve just become friends with a lady who just moved here from Colombia, South America about a month ago – Kalonji helped her and her husband and children get their ID cards a couple of weeks ago. She speaks very little English and I speak very little Spanish, but we were able to communicate with each other okay and we will both teach each other.

In Kaleya news — she took her first step on her own Friday night! One step, but hey, it was exciting! It has been amazing being home with her – she truly is inspiring to watch and it is so interesting to watch her process information. She is a smart girl and I can’t wait until she starts talking so she can tell me all that’s going on in her head.

In stitching news I finally picked up a project again. And of course, new place, new environment means — NEW PROJECT! I started the Eight Immortals that Kalonji bought for me last month. I decided to do it on Lambswool linen instead of the blue they recommend. I did not want to go for the “in the clouds” look and instead just want to stitch them so I went with a darker fabric. It is going to be gorgeous!

Not much else going on. I am adjusting well I think and still have plenty of unpacking to do! This coming weekend we are going back to Nashville for CATS so I’ll get to see my stitching buddies hopefully and meet some TWBB stitchers!

Posted by taneya on August 6, 2005 under Uncategorized | 4 Comments to Read

And we have moved!

Be forwarned — this post is going to serve as my official recount of our move and this past week so it will be long! It has been one week since our move and all is great! So, let’s go to the details….

On Saturday, July 30th, Kalonji and I started loading up the Uhaul truck. I had gone on Friday night with a friend to go pick it up and was very nervous. I have driven a Uhaul truck before and loved it, so I was not nervous about driving the actual truck. But since we had to tow my car behind it, that had me concerned b/c I have had friends that have had some interesting experiences with a tow dolly — but all was fine. I managed to get the truck and tow home that night. It took us about 5 hours to load up the truck and it was hot! But then we hooked up the car and got on the road to go to Memphis.

Because this was being paid for by the military, they required us to get the truck weighed both before being loaded and after being loaded. To do this, we took the truck to a truck stop about 15 miles down the highway. That was cool! We were in the same areas as all the big tractor trailers and truckers and I almost felt like part of the culture — and it is a culture – you could just tell that being among them. So, we got the truck weighed and proceeded down the highway.

Memphis is only about 3 hours from Nashville, so we did not have to go far. The drive was without incident. I kept worrying the car would somehow fall off the dolly and I would not know it (b/c I couldn’t see the car) but then realized that was not going to happen so finally stopped obsessing about it after an hour or so. We got to our house around 8 pm.

We are renting this 3 BR house that is not too far from the base. It is so cute! I will get pictures of the house up later, but I think we were lucky in finding something so convenient. I do have to say though that the town we are in (outside of Memphis) has to be the smallest town I’ve ever lived in — and it feels like a small town. Kind of surprising to me since we are 10 miles outside the Memphis city limits. I guess I’ll deal with it — memphis is just a hop, skip and a jump away! As we started to unload the truck, we met our neighbors and they helped us, so it only took about 2 hours to unload everything. We went out to get something to eat then came home and went to bed. What an exhausting day.

But the fun was not over yet. On Sunday morning, we got up, went to the airport to pick up our rental van, and headed to Indiana to go get the boys. We drove all the way to Evansville and back (6 hours each way) in one day. Didn’t get back home until 1 am! The van we rented is very neat – has a DVD player and satellite radio — we are not going to want to give it back tomorrow . The kids all loved it too.

So, we have had the boys all week and am leaving this morning to take them back to Evansville. We are going to drive up and back today just like last week so I will be one tired camper tomorrow. We had a great week though. The boys went to visit Kalonji at work so they could get new ID cards made; we went to Walmart almost every night this week it feels like and Kaleya got to hang out with her brothers – Kamau & Miles especially doted on her. She was crawling after them and trying to keep up with them too.. she is going to be such a tomboy

I hope to post again in a couple more days.. until then, bear with me if you’ve emailed me and I’ve not responded!