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Library

The Kenai Library is our most favorite place to hang out. They have a great kids department. The kiddos are signed up for the summer reading program of course. Thing 1 is well on her way to having the best odds at the wrap-up party drawing. She’s a reading machine!
Thing 2 and Little Bit like to play games on the computers. Wonder where they get that from??

Our New Life

 

We’ve been in Alaska for a little more than a week, 9 days to be exact. So far we have found an apartment, I’ve interviewed for a job, and we’ve done an amazing amount of exploring in such a short time. The kids are settling in well. One of our neighbors has a child the same age as my son. They are becoming friends.

We’ve been to the beach numerous times, collected ample rocks and shells, which are scattered to and fro through the apartment.

We’ve been to Homer to see the mountains, and the plethora of eagles.

We’ve made a few new friends and found an awesome park in Soldotna.

We’re adjusting to the daylight but still working on bedtime! 😉 It’s hard to go to sleep when you are a kid and it’s still bright outside! It’s hard for Mom too!

The kids got to see their first Moose last week, a young bull right in the next door yard!

I got to see my first newborn moose calf last Saturday. How precious!! And my first wolf tracks.

Nature is so close and still part of daily life here. Not removed or pushed away by civilization.

The one drawback, or complaint, if I could have one… the mosquitoes. They are vicious, and so numerous coming at you in swarms. The locals are saying that this is the worst year that they’ve seen in a long time. What a welcome!

On the bright side, the weather has been simply amazing. High 60s to low 70s since we’ve been here. The kids were even able to wade in the inlet without freezing themselves this week. Not a drop of rain since we’ve been here, but the fire danger is also elevated due to that. Today it is cooler, only in the 50s so far. Need a sweater on today!

I’m blessed with a few faithful friends here. Going above and beyond to help us settle and make our new life here. I thank YHVH for them.

Fly Away Home

 

I’m sitting here looking out my window seat portal at the front of this big jet engine and the tops of fluffy clouds that look like snow. I’ve only got about 40 minutes left in the air and we’ll be touching down at Ted Stevens. It still doesn’t seem possible, my nerves are finally settled after flying with my kids for the first time, I don’t have any apprehension, and I’m anxiously awaiting my soft hotel bed. 😉
My kids are all asleep. Thankfully for this leg of the flight, we were seated forward in the plane and have ample leg-room and aren’t so crowded.
Thing 1 and Thing 2 are seat mates across the aisle from me and Little Bit. She’s sleeping leaning over on the arm rest covered up in her United blanket. The lucky fellow that got seated between us certainly had a work out on this flight. Poor guy.

The plane is loaded, not an empty seat to be found. So many unusual and interesting people on these flights to Alaska.

Even though I can’t see the change in altitude, I can feel it. This is our second major descent in the past half hour. The tops of the clouds are getting closer. And now and then I see a break in the clouds and mountain tops peeking through. Our approach is different from my last trip. Flying over the mountains, simply gorgeous!The pilot says 30 more minutes. 50 degrees with 20 mph southeasterly winds in Anchorage. Some turbulence but not as bad as flying into Denver.
It’s been a great flight!

Alaska welcomes us home!

72 Hours

In a mere 72 hours I will be in the air.
Flying over the plains states on my way to the Last Frontier.
This journey has been a long time coming.
I’m so excited.