Why I love Boise...In Pictures.

Enough said? I think so!

Silence is golden? Yeah. Right.

Or not. Sitting in an empty house that is mostly packed while your husband is on his way to Alaska moving our very dear friends and attend two job interviews is not my ideal way of spending the night. Dinner for one is oh so tough. I mean really depressing. No wonder I got married. On the bright side, we should be done and have the sale of the house finalized (pinch me!) in a couple of weeks. Then it's off to the last frontier for my own great adventures. Perhaps I should think of changing the name of the blog to somehow reflect this. I will allow a time of settling in to decide how best to reflect my new surroundings. On the up side, I got to take two little boys (Felix and Jade) to school and pick them up and have a park day with them and Shiloh (Jade's little sis) and their mother Chelsea. It was fabulous. Except for the mosquitoes. Yep. They are here already. But with the river floods, not that much of a surprise. A deluge of the blood suckers awaits. And they are hungry! Some things never do change.

Delay of Game

Well, we were supposed to be moving out this next week and possibly on our way soon after that. But we are still here. We are still trying to get the complete package to the mortgage company for short sale approval. There always seems to be something missing. And then there is the last 48 hours and two broken vehicles and $2000 out of the account in the fixing of said vehicles. And it helps not to be moving this week or the next weeks as we just started the memorial campaign and would definitely lose out on a full share. That and Joe has the flu. So I am sure this delay is for the best in the end. I just wish I could be more patient. I am so anxious to know this is a done deal and get this wagon train a moving. Life is waiting.

Update June 2012: Wow!  I can't believe it's been 14 months since I wrote those words.  Seems like yesterday.  It's weird but I would give anything to be back home with my Bearsy Boy and my Ronin Jacob at my side sitting on my couch curled up peacefully with all being right in our lives and thus the world.  Sometimes you can't go home again.  But sometimes I sure wish I could.

Our adventure begins now.

Wow. Just wow. We listed our house for sale. Just to get ahead of the spring showings and hopefully be on our way to Alaska sometime soon. Fast forward two short weeks and two showings later and we are now in closing on an offer and have about three weeks before we move out. Three short weeks to pack up, simplify and sell off 80% of our lives in preparation for the 3000 mile journey of our lives. Three short weeks in the shortest month in the history of my life. As my sister put it "Your adventure begins now." Indeed it does.

A new day

Today is the day that it all starts over for me. I am going to smile and be happy and begin again.

Answer: "Wish She could crawl under a rock"

And the question is: "What will Tawnya do on the 4th of November?" Ugh. I hate this date. I really do. I lost my mom to a ravenous cancer 10 years ago today and my grandpa on basically the same date 17 years ago. (Mom died at 11:45 pm on Nov 4th and Bumpy died at 2:30 am on November 5th so I have always considered it the same date 7 years apart.)

You know time makes things easier and I don't cry even close to as often as I used to. I've learned to "live with it" as some would say.

But just the same, I am so excited for day when I have her and grandpa back in the resurrection if Jehovah wills so that the title of this post can change to Jump for Joy and the date will become one of rejoicing and the most special of all dates forever.

Dear Diary

It has just sunk in. Blogging is like a diary of sorts - only public. Perhaps I haven't given it enough time to catch on. Perhaps I haven't given it a fair chance to be therapeutic (if that was ever a goal?) But here we are.

Summer was incredible - minus the plague-like mosquitos. They seriously chased me in the house one night from my jeep! On the upside, it really was never too hot. And yet not very entertaining either. I worked....A LOT! I did have the chance to take my nephew to our county fair along with a co-workers young daughter. But it just wasn't the same as it has been. Just me and two kids. Except Felix got on stage and got into a showdown with the tap dancers who were performing at the time. But I digress, the camera failed to record (insufficient memory). So I went to get a new memory card only to find I'd been outsourced and would require a new camera - at the airport on the way to Maui. :) While I would have preferred to know this well in advance to research the purchase, overanalyze, just to find myself back at my original decision anyhow, I did find it liberating to make the purchase on the spot and came away with an incredible camera. And I even got to keep the receipt from the Maui Costco for it too. What can I say? I'm a nerd.

So here we are in Maui for our 15th wedding anniversary/honeymoon that never happened celebration and visit with three of our dearest friends, no they are family! I still can't believe I made it to Hawaii! I feel so blessed to have had such an incredible experience. It has made me want to become an avid explorer of my planet and world around me.



It was an incredible adventure and vacation. Everything went just perfect. There is not one single, solitary thing I would change. Everyone should have a vacation like that. The smile on the husband's face of total relaxation and enjoyment was worth everything to me. I will have to relate a few experiences that we enjoyed while on the island as time goes on. It might just be enough to keep the winter blues from setting in. Maybe.

Aloha! Maui No Ka' Oi