Happy Mother’s Day & House Hunting

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Happy Mother’s Day to all! These flowers are from the crochet-a-long on Ravelry, pattern created by Claudia “delights“. Her blog posts many colorful versions – what a great idea!

I have a few extra minutes to write today because the boys went to visit the Skiatook Branch of the church we belong to today without me. I missed the children singing to their mothers! …but, on the flip side, I have a few extra QUIET minutes to write. We have been house hunting for 2 and a half weeks. I have mixed emotions. We’ve run the gamut: downsizing, acreage, old home, new home, in Bartlesville, in Skiatook, etc. We have some important decisions to make — there are pros and cons to each choice and combination of choices. The kids are begging for an acreage but the best one we’ve found has a FANTASTIC acreage but a really, really old ranch house that would need to be entirely redone. We found a fantastic house on an acre but no livestock (I want chickens!). We’ve found a fantastic new home in town with a large yard and also another, downsized fantastic new-ish home in town that would have little resale value (it’s the only newish home in the neighborhood). Lots and lots of decisions to make. I’m grateful to be able to make these decisions: thankful for my kiddos, for my husband’s job and for being blessed with the world’s greatest mother.

Big News! Moving to Bartlesville, Oklahoma

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We are excited to move to Bartlesville, Oklahoma.  It sounds like the area is right up our alley (tornado alley, that is) and really our speed.  We love smaller towns and are so excited to be closer to Omaha.  ConocoPhillips (yes, I believe it’s all one word) moved fast and hired Don very quickly.  He’s really looking forward to working with his new boss and team – they sound like great people to work with.  It will be a big change after thirteen years at Hewlett Packard but change is good and I know this move will be really good for him.  I’m worried a bit that the move has something to do with Bartlesville being the home of the largest Colt museum in the world…it sounds like Oklahoma is an outdoor paradise for hunting, fishing, and shooting.  Don + Oklahoma + a Cabela’s catalog = a midlife crisis I can live with!!!