Tour of the House

Sorry these pictures have taken so long to post. I wanted to wait until a few more things were done before I posted pictures of our house. I didn't post pictures of the bathrooms or the basement but this gives you a general idea of the house. We love company, so visitors are always welcome.

Living Room

Office - Where I spend most of my time

Master Bedroom

Kitchen

Kitchen from the table

Guest Room (company always welcome)

Back of the House

Front of the House

Giggling Customer Service Rep

I had to call Comcast (again) about some issues with accessing my on-line account. I was having a pretty bizarre problem (an issue with running around in circles) and when I explained it to the rep...he giggled.

Now I've had some pretty bad customer service from Comcast (if you have ever used Comcast you can probably relate). I try to be patient but I'll admit I do call them with a bit of a chip on my shoulder. Usually the last people I work with are great...as they are the ones who actually help me.

Well this guy's giggle certainly improved my mood. At first I was a trifle annoyed that he had the audacity to giggle. But it ended up relaxing me a bit and he proved to be quite helpful.

I may try giggling at the next person who comes off annoyed at me.

Sleeping in the car

I didn't have to sleep in my car tonight, but I came very close.

There are two sets of keys to my car. One is mine and the other Mark's. Because they are a bit bulky Mark leaves his set of my keys along with a few others at home when he goes to work. The problem is this set of car keys, does not have a house key.

I went to Wal-Mart after Mark left for work tonight (I find shopping at night much better w/0 all the people). When I got out of Wal-Mart I realized I had Mark's set of car keys...not mine. The other problem was I had left both of my cell phones in the house (a true rarity for me).

Now our house is thankfully more secure than our apartment was meaning I can't just use a credit card to card my way through the lock. I wasn't confident I'd remembered to lock the door when I left and for once I was hoping I had forgotten.

Thankfully when I arrived home, the door was unlocked. Not that this is very safe or smart...but tonight it proved a good thing.

Had it not been unlocked I either would have had to sleep in my car until Mark arrived at home (he works 3rd shift you don't know this) or gone to Caterpillar and found some security guard to help me find him. I haven't really been around the facility in Joliet like I had been in Thomasville, so that could have been interesting.

I'm off to go sleep in my bed (thankfully:))

Fun Father's Day (a little late)

We went down to Central Illinois this weekend for a belated Father's Day. We first celebrated with my Kuntz cousins. It was great to attend one of these again. I always loved Kuntz birthdays. We tend to get together for all major holidays and then some random birthday celebrations. It used to be about every month but since life has become a little busier, it's more like once a quarter. With Mark and I in GA, we didn't make it much.

Then we had brunch with my Vercler grandparents and my immediate family on Saturday morning. That was really nice too. Mom made fabulous food.

I don't have any pictures because I forgot my camera. But the memories are there.

Asking nicely

We have a guy who I think every Wednesday comes in the morning to pick up the kids from the neighbor across the street. Normally our neighborhood is quiet and peaceful. Except on these mornings he comes in playing extremely loud music. He then leaves his car running, doors & windows open, and goes into the house. He is in there an extended length of time. I'm assuming he leaves the music going so he can hear it in the house.

Mark is on 3rd shift right now and while it maybe doesn't disrupt him too bad...it drives me crazy. I'm confident it is a noise violation.

Well today I decided to be a friendly neighbor and ask them not do play the music so loud. I wandered over, introduced myself, and made my request. It helped a lot that I could say my husband worked 3rd and is sleeping. I asked very politely if there was anyway it could be shut off.

The neighbors were very nice and quickly the music ceased. Ahhh the quiet again. I don't know if this is the end of our noise routine but it was great for today.

Missing the Family

This afternoon I had a bit of an opportunity to chat with the Lindberg family back in Georgia. I do miss spending time with them very much.

I had a wonderful conversation with Joel about his birthday and things going on in our house. He is really growing up and a lot of fun to talk to. Here is a great shot of him licking the wisk after making brownies.

I do miss them all so very much.

I don't think I look that young

Sometimes people think I'm younger than I am but typically they are in the general ball park.

Today a salesman rang our door bell, when I answered he asked

"Is your mom or dad home?"

It threw me for a bit of a loop. I smiled and replied "No, I'm the wife."

He blushed and responded that I look young. Now our neighborhood has a lot of families and some-what older people in it but still...

Here is a recent picture. Now I wasn't as dressed up as this picture shows but you'll get the general idea of how I look.

Hello out there

hello to all those who check my blog. We've been very busy with the move. We are officially "moved in" but that just means all our stuff is in this house.

The closing went fine and moving in has actually gone pretty well. When we moved in though we realized something crazy about this house...it had no over head lights in the living room or any of the bedrooms. Mark and my dad have been busy putting in the wires for the new lights and fans. We have 2 and 1/2 of them up so we're doing pretty good.

I'll post pictures soon.

Feeling Ditzy

I thought I wasn't going to post for a while but...anyway.

Since we are moving to Illinois Mark and I drove his car up a little over a week ago to look at houses etc. We then flew back to Georgia and are living with only one vehicle for the next week and a half. Since I work from home it isn't that big of a deal.

The problem is in my fairly frazzled state...I keep forgetting this. On Monday I made out all my errands to run over lunch, only to walk out a realize I had no car. The errands had to wait until Mark got home.

Today my friend Dorcas called to meet up for lunch at Pizza Hut. Sounded great to me. I totally forgot not having a car until I walked out to leave. Thankfully Pizza Hut is really close, so she just picked me up.

The crazy part of that whole deal was I talking to my mother-in-law just prior to leaving and telling her I wouldn't be out to do voice lessons with Lydia until later because Mark had the car. I just didn't put it all together when it came to lunch.

Oh well...I made it. I just keep feeling a bit foolish.

New Home

Mark and I put an offer and it was accepted for our first house. It's in Joliet, IL. The house is only 5 miles (12 minute) drive from Mark's new job, which makes me very excited. I think it will suit us well.

Hope ya'll can come visit.

P.S. I haven't written much as things have been really busy with the move. Mark and I were exhausted last night. We still have a ways to go.

Hopefully once the move is complete, I'll be back up posting.

Moving On

It's official. For those of you who haven't heard, Mark accepted a position with Caterpillar in...

Joliet, Illinois!

With great joy and a few tears, we are making our way back up to the Midwest.We've felt the Lord's leading in this process and look forward to many new experiences.

We'll be attending the Apostolic Church in Chicago. We are looking forward to being a regular part of a congregation.

We have been immensely blessed here in Georgia and praise the Lord for his grace and mercy.

With love,
Mark & Laura

We go together

I knew Mark and I spent a lot of time together, but I didn't realize other people noticed. One of our typical routines is late in the evening after dinner, we'll go to Wal-Mart to do our weekly grocery shopping. I could go by myself but I don't really like to and if I wait until later it is less busy.



Last week while I was away, Mark had to pick up a few things. He went through the check-out line of one of our usual checkers. As he got to the front she asked..."Missing somebody."



He smiled and replied "She is out of town on a business trip."



I guess other people notice we are joined at the hip.

Home again

Greetings. It has been a while since my last post due to a trip up North. I was in South Bend, Leo, Roanoke, and Gridley all in the last 8 days. It was wonderful to see so many friends and family. I'm also thankful to be back home with Mark.

Talk to you later.

Curious George and Tears

This weekend while Mom and Dad Lindberg were up in Illinois for Great-grandpa's funeral, Mark and I stayed with the kids. We had a wonderful time and the family was a joy to be with.

We decided to rent a movie one night and selected Curious George. Now I loved this moved and thought it was very cute and nicely done. Excellent choice for kids.

Not scary...or so I thought. There is one scene in which Curious George is taken away by animal control. It isn't overly aggressive but...as the scene ends all of a sudden we here this very deep inhale from Rachel. She is notably crying at poor George's fate.

We quickly hugged her and assured her George would be ok. She watched it again Sunday without incident.

Such a sensitive little girl.

Here she is with big brother Josh.

Josh and Bethany

As most of you probably already know, my bro-in-law, Josh, is getting married at the end of May. Both Mark and I are in the wedding and we are very excited about it.

Josh and Bethany came to visit the family in Georgia not that long ago. Here is a picture of the happy couple.

You can't see in this picture that Josh has a big boot on his foot. He broke it at work a while back. He's doing well and hopefully be walking normally by May 25th.

We wish them love and joy in their life together.

Bible Study

Renae and I just completed a Bible Study with a women's group in town, Beth Moore's Bible Study- Stepping Up .


Since we live so far from our church, Renae thought a women's Bible Study would be a strong encouragement. She was definitely right.


Life at my parent's house has been a challenging and this Bible Study was a real encouragement.

I learned a lot about worship, God's promises, and lot of the background about the feasts and how Jesus is connected to that history.


God was faithful in reaching me with very personal messages just when I needed them most.


It is a good Bible Study for someone who has been a believer for a while and who needs to take it to another step. It's probably not right for a new believer as there are some basic assumptions of what you understand.


It is designed for groups but probably could be done on your own.


I'm thankful God brought me to it during this difficult time.

Accidental Thief

Renae asked me a few weeks ago to pick up a pizza for Matthew from Pizza Hut as a surprise for his lunch. I was already have lunch with Mark at Caterpillar and Renae thought it would be a nice surprise.

She said she'd call her order in, pay with a credit card, and alll I'd have to do is pick it up and deliver it. Not a problem.

It wasn't quite ready when I arrived. I waited about 4 minutes, they handed me my pizza and I left.

The next day Renae calls me and asks "How much do I owe you?"

I replied "Owe me...for what?"

"The pizza"

"Ummmmm I didn't pay for it"

Aparently the credit card thing didn't happen. I had offered to pay for it to Renae if the credit card thing didn't work but they handed me the food and I thought it had gone through fine.

Renae stopped by there the next day to settle up.

Never meant to steal it...oops

Fell Down Springing Forward

As you know this weekend was the change from Standard to Daylight Savings Time. Well...you probably knew, I didn't.

I had no idea that it was this weekend. So Sunday morning we get up to get ready for church and Mark remembers. By the time he remembered though there was no way to get to church on time.

So we missed services this week. It was very weird not going to church and I definitely missed it. I was so sad because my future sister-in-law, Bethany, and my brother-in-law, Josh, were here and wanted to attend church with them.

Oh well, we did spring forward eventually and were well rested...

Riding Together

As some of you know, when we go up to Atlanta for church it is about a 4 hour drive. Not a short little trip but manageable in a weekend.



Next weekend is the Easter program. Both us and the Lindberg family need to attend because of our obligations to the Sunday School. Dad Lindberg though has to work both days next weekend. So Mark and I offered to drive the family up so Mom wouldn't have to take the big red van by herself.


We were talking about this the other afternoon and we greatly confused Joel. First he asks



Joel: "So we're leaving Dad?"

Me: "Yes"


Joel: "Who is going to drive us?"


Me: "Mark"


Joel: "Oh...who is going to drive you?"



Even though this is a 15-passenger van he hadn't considered that I could ride along.

After we explained that I'm going to ride in the van too, the world made sense again.




This is my little man Joel.

It didn't taste good

VS.

This morning when I was brushing my teeth I accidently put my face wash on my toothbrush instead of my toothpaste.

I didn't even realize what I had done until I put it in my mouth and realize it had a horrible very unexpected taste. I wouldn't recommend it.

Amanda Update: She definitely did a real good number on her nose. She has to have surgery tomorrow to repair it. She's handling it very well but she'll be sore for a while.