Aloha

I think for me, aloha must mean something like 'have a crappy week'. So here we are headed to live in paradise and the first thing I do is get Cole's cold. I was sick for about the first 8 or 9 days that we were here. And of course, I didn't just get a little cold. It wore me out completely and then turned into a sinus infection. Of course, I had to keep two boys busy in a big empty house with no toys except for what we brought on the airplane and no car to go anywhere in since Dan was working. At least I got to communicate with civilization and check e-mail on Dan's computer in the evenings, until the computer died that is. My favorite thing that first week, Dan got up early before work one morning to go get a patio set for outside so I'd at least have a chair to sit in. You know you don't have much when a chair makes you happy.

So really, there has been good stuff that has happened. :) We did get our air shipment a little over a week after we got here. That was 500lbs of stuff, so I then got a computer, pots and pans to cook in, a coffeemaker (!), more toys for the kids, etc. We bought a new washer/dryer too (clean clothes made me really, really happy),

The neighbors are all friendly. Adam has two girls he loves to play with, Jordan and Chanel (sounds like the perfume Chanel No. 5). They are about 11 or so, and they both love little kids so they come over to play pretty much every day. At least it entertains the kids.

I'm really hoping to have some furniture soon, and I'd really, really like a real bed to sleep in. We bought bunk beds for the kids and should have those in a couple days. So at least the kids will have a mattress to sleep on (the other mattress we'll use is in the seatainer or I'd probably sleep on it!). The cars are in Hawaii, hoping to get them Monday. They didn't get off the boat in time on Friday to deliver them.

I'll have to post some pictures soon, but it's getting late here.