Feeling it....

I think it is hitting all of us that this is for real. At first the kids were doing great, the novelty of the new place. New rooms, new beds, new bedding, new roommates, new places to explore, new trampoline.... and on and on, they were having a good time. This past week, the Grumpies have moved in and they brought their friends the Yellies and the Weepies. These unwanted guest are not fitting well into our new house. Now yes, the house is bigger then the one in Maryland, but in Maryland we didn't have all these unwanted house guest most of the time. Tori cried tonight and asked why anyone would want to buy our old house in MD anyway... "it was old" she said through her tears..."who would want to buy it?" I told her that we should be happy that someone bought it, that means that we have the $ to go on vacation. She said," but when I go back to MD they won't let me see it." I told her that they seemed like nice people, maybe they would. She cried harder and said "what if they speak in another accent???? What if they're spanish?" "They're not spanish honey... they're asian." "Oh, what if they don't speak English?" ..... The discussion went on like this... it was pretty funny, and sad at the same time.

Tori has also had a terrible case of the Crankies... oh they are bad! Such a grump lately. Alex today at church cried that he didn't want to go to class. "I'm just not having ANY fun." he told me. A little boy at church has contracted a terrible case of the Meanies, and has told Alex from Day one that he does NOT like new kids, and has scolded him on one occasion for being "stupid" and forgetting his scriptures. No wonder the kid doesn't want to go. On Thursday at a scouting thing, Alex showed the boy to me..... I showed him that we have some Grumpies at our house, and apparently, he was nicer at church today. As I tucked Alex in tonight he said through his tears..... "I tried to have fun today, but i just didn't." I think he misses his pals, and just doesn't know how to say it. He has been the one with the bad case of Angeries..... Yelling, punching and kicking his sisters. His symptoms have been mostly yelling, and stomping with the occasional flare up of a punch or kick of someone's car seat. Usually when his symptoms subside he is taken over by the Weepies. Poor guy. Liza is just sad, and had a big cry the other night because she will have no friends at her birthday party. :-( She asked me if she could spend her birthday $ to fly her friend Victoria out here. I told her maybe, until she said that she would only spend the $ if Victoria could stay for a whole year. :-) Not likely hun.

Brent has a terrible case of the worries, and I've had a few symptoms too, but mostly I am experiencing the weepies, and the grumpies with the occasional flare up of the Yellies.

I am trying to be patient. I am hopeful that the cure of these problems lies in our pending Vacation with Grandpa will really help things along. Brent being done studying will be great, and School starting will help too (I hope) They are ALL very worried that they won't make friends. Me too I suppose. :-)