My new house (just an organized one)

Janell is settling into school. We have a girl living with us in the basement so when I go visit Kay, Janell will have someone here with her.

I have hired another girl from Tajikistan (next to China, a break off from the Soviet Union) who is going to school at UVU, to help me organize. She is cleaning and organizing my house from the attic to the garage and is very good. There are things that haven't seen a cleaning rag in the 12 years we have been here. I love to take people to show off my storage rooms which were disasters before. I feel such a relief and freedom. She doesn't read English so some things are not where they should go and be, but everything is neat and tidy, I realized with her here, I do more and am inspired to organize.

With my shopping addiction (I just came out of the closet last year) I have things organized and I can see some of my follies. She speaks some foreign language and Russian and is Shite Muslim. It is Ramadan now so she is fasting. We have had a whole new world open up.

For Janell 's birthday in July, we gave her a Disney Cruise. We go next month and are getting excited about that. Janell will miss 4 days of school. She enjoys band and pep band at the football games.

The multiplying and replenishing commandment in the Bible is really cool when your offspring have offspring. Rachael in Omaha is having a baby boy this month and Frances in Salt Lake will have her twin girls next month. Rachael's boys have been calling the unborn baby 'Chester Jack-Jack' (the latter being the baby from the Disney movie The Incredibles) Rachael likes to keep names a secret until the baby is born so we will see if we get Chester Chappell or not.

I went to Omaha to visit Kay and the grand kids and had a great time at the zoo and Children's museum with them. Going to Omaha to visit is nice, I stay with Kay in his apartments and spend the days while he is working with Rachael and the kids. I am not in Rachael's hair and have a car to go where I want. We are anxious to have our Kay back, hopefully in the spring. Meanwhile I will see him at the end of the month and for our Disney Cruise.