Interesing news...

For those who have not yet heard the title for Harry Potter book Seven has been released...

Ready?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Yes, hAllows, not hOllows...

interesting...

Let the pondering start now...

and hopefully end 7/07/07...

Just me,
Fran =)

Odd day...

Interesting...

Good...

But odd...

We had our home inspection for the adoption today. Part of that was we needed to have our furnace inspected (and pass, of course). They also came today. Here is how the afternoon played out:
3:00 Isaac Heating and Air came, the nice guy Roy begins to clean and inspect the furnace.
3:30 Roy comes up and breaks the news to us...all five of our heat exchangers are cracked. He takes us down and shows us the cracks with his little mirror, yup, cracks.
at 3:40 Roy tells us we need a new furnace. *sigh*
He calls headquarters and they will have a salesman over in a little while (he will call before he gets here)
3:50 Roy goes back to work testing for Carbon monoxide. The tests were good, none going outside and only 35 parts-per-million going inside which is NOTHING really...
so...
4:00 Roy still here, and our Temporary Social Workers Intern arrives to do our home inspection.
THAT went very smoothly...we were her second ever inspection and we had the checklist they use, so we knew what was going on and were prepared...easy.
Just a few things we need to do:
get plug covers
get cabinet locks for chemical areas
get smoke detector for attic
get a lock for the attic door (the attic door is in the nursery)
get a new furnace =)
SO...
4:40 the salesman calls and he will be here in 5 min...we are still chatting with the social worker
4:45 the social worker is getting up to leave and the salesman is knocking on the door. Roy is still in the basement.
4:50 Roy leaves
4:55 Salesman leaves after we purchased a new furnace from them and scheduled it to be delivered tomorrow afternoon and installed Thursday.
5:00 we stand in the kitchen and say "That was odd."

yes...yes it was...

Just Me,
Fran =)

We are going home!

We are going home for Christmas!

It will be 4 years this Christmas since I have seen my Dad and stepmom and my home town.

It has been just as long since John has seen his hometown, but his family has visited us here.

We were not planning on going home for Christmas since I was planning on working at the nursery.

Well, I got my schedule the other day and I was not scheduled to work the week after Christmas and the few days before.

So, our plans changed!

So here are our plans:

On the 23rd we leave for Wilton, Maine, driving straight through. Hopefully it will only take 9ish hours.

So we will be in Wilton from the 23rd until the 26th when we go to Franklin, NH to visit some friends of John's (mine too, but they were his first) from college who always try to get together for the holidays.

On the 27th we will go to Danville, New Hampshire (my hometown) and stay with my dad and step-mom until we leave on the 30th.

On the 30th we will go to my great friend Eva's house, spend the night and then drive home on the 31st.

Oh yea, Merlyn is coming with us! I think he will have a great time. Lots of new dogs, things to smell and people to meet. Hopefully he will be a good boy.

I hope that I can meet up with a few of my friends, too, while I am in NH. We shall see.

Happy Holidays!

Just me,
Fran =)

Nursery Colors and Theme...

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to post a picture of the nursery colors and dragonflies that we have chosen....well, that I have chosen and John agree to/does not really care about...=)




The pictures makes it look a little darker than it is, but the top two dragonflies we are wallpaper cutouts we got at Michaels. The blanket underneath we got at Baby Depot and it is a light blue/green, I will try to get some better pictures of them, but I am still trying to figure out the new camera =)

Just Me,
Fran =)