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when friendship happens…

When you make a friend, it’s amazing what it does to make you feel at home.

That’s my experience here.  These last few months have been somewhat difficult, because makign friends has been difficult.

Oh, believe me, I’ve tried.  But the culture of life here means people are in their cars more. Even dropping Phoenix to school, [...]

making friends

Once I had a discussion with a college friend about the hardship related to making friends after college.  It seems like up to that point in your life, you’re free to do whatever, you are still figuring out what you’re all about, and you get to spend a lot of time with the same people [...]

Finding a church can surprise you.

Before we ever left New York, we knew that finding a church would be tough.

After all, there will never be a church that meets our needs like Graffiti. It’s the church where I gave almost 2 years of my life to, as a semester missionary, being a youth director, and even the children’s director for [...]

first week’s done

The first week of school is over.

The boys did great.

Willik was a bit anxious and excited, but he came out of school the very first day saying it was “Awesome!!!”  He’s very excited about the fact that recess is a total of 45 minutes long(15min. in the morning and 30 min. after lunch), and as [...]

posts will be scarce…

I have so much to write about, but I’m too busy to write.

We’ve moved in and the kitchen is almost all unpacked.  Only spices and cookbooks to unpack.  I forgot a bunch of pots inside my cabinet in New York, so I have to get some new ones, and cooking has been a bit challenging.  [...]

we are 7/8ths moved

Yesterday was the big day. we had asked everyone to be here at 9am to help us move.

The day before we’d gone to get the U-Haul truck– a 24-footer, which Fabio had to drive around in Queens.

We stayed up til 2am packing, and we got up at 6am and continued packing, in order to be [...]

Believe it or not…

the boys and I have been surviving without an air conditioner.

We have not had the pleasure of putting our window unit in, because there’s just too much going on.  That’s also true of the mini van, which needs a booster of that special air stuff.  I bought it right before the super high temps weekend [...]

we’re finally moving on…

The general home inspections happened on friday.  Fabio went straight there from the airport in Philly, upon returning from Charleston, SC.  I missed it, so this is all second hand knowledge.  I’m glad to report that the inspection went very well.  There was no major problems, just a few minor things to take care of.  [...]

the money battle

This home buying stuff is a good lesson in math, investments, planning, and borrowing money.

The whole time you are searching for a home, you have to keep in mind your price range. Your price range largely depends on how much you have saved to put down as your initial down payment. Your budget [...]

we’ve been released

Yes. The seller signed the release so we are now out of the contract, and we will get our deposit money back.
I guess they must be overwhelmed by the results and have to figure out what to do next as well.
As for us, we have another weekend marathon planned for house hunting. This [...]