Miser Family Update: new/old home, bones and bikes, io de Mayo

Life surges in its rich-and-full way in the Miser Family household.   The most exciting news of the week happened right at the beginning, when our offer on the new home was accepted.  Whoop!  We'll be moving in early August [never mind the fact that I'm out of town traveling for two weeks then; we'll find a way to make this work!]   Oh, and also, we have buyer for our current home . . . the paperwork hasn't been officially signed yet, but all of the arrangements are proceeding apace.  I've been a bit hyper with plans for cleaning up the current home beautifully and for all the arranging of furniture and such I'll get to do in the new home . . . it's better than having a dollhouse   (And I ought to know, because I was a real dollhouse fiend as a kid).

All of this happened as the week turned from Saturday to Sunday.  And then Sunday we drove several hours, dropping N-son off at school.  His school's architecture is built on the long, double-corridor model.  It's lovely for someone whose mother studies perspective!

And J-son has also gotten some happy news.  His foster mom texted me to say,

J-son made me smile yesterday. He got an honor roll certificate and said, "Yes, finally. It only took me 13 years to get this."

Go, J-son!  If N-son has long corridors stretching out ahead of him, J-son has really turned a corner.  In a good way.

Speaking of physical and texting, my husband texted me with three photos and the phrase "For the blog".   And . . .  just so you can see that my husband wasn't just pretending to have had knee surgery to get sympathy and drugs, here's pictures of my guy, inside and out!




If you noticed something familiarly spandex-y about the outfit my guy is wearing . . . yes! You guessed right!  He's officially allowed back on the bike, and he's already done short ride of a dozen-ish miles.  He's also walking up and down stairs with both legs, instead of one-legged.   What a happy set of advances these are!

We polished off the end of the work week with our 10-de-Mayo dinner (which we pronounce like "ayo de mayo").  A small group, but lots of food and good jokes.  A great event before Saturday's round of my college's commencement, held in perfect weather: sunny and just a tad on the cool side. 

If you look carefully, you can see A-child clearing plates,
putting them on the kitchen floor for Prewash to take care of.

And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures.  May you and yours be similarly prosperous.