I Never Promised You an Organic Garden

Well, after a month-long self imposed hiatus, I am back to blogging. Life has been very crazy the past month and something had to give. Unfortunately it turned out to be my blog. If anyone is still paying attention, thanks for your patience.

So what has been going on all this time, you ask? Matt and I have been, and still are, buying a house. Yes that’s right, buying a house. Now I know we said we were going to do the responsible thing and wait a year so we could save up a substantial down payment and then buy a house, but the more we thought about it the more now felt like the right time. It is truly a buyers market, interest rates are they lowest they have been in years and are only going to go up, and we are tired of throwing our money away paying rent.

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Checkout our recent photos of Garrett and Haley

Last night Matt was looking through old photos to find some for his new office, and it reminded me that we have been together for 9 1/2 years and married for nearly 5. It was quite humorous to look at us 9 1/2 years ago and us now. We have been through a lot together, and I am happy to say have only gotten closer over the years.

So I thought I would share a few photos from over the years (don’t laugh too hard):

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Some of you may have noticed a very conspicuous lack of posts here in the last couple of weeks.  This has been caused by a big change in our life that has been taking place, which used up a lot of my time both physically and mentally as I was processing everything.

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Introducing the newest member of the McKimmy family, Garrett McKimmy:

He is quite a handful. Very vocal and curious, but we love him. For more photos of our new kitty, check out my new photo album

After a weekend chock full of graduation festivities Matt and I are now in Virginia taking a well-deserved vacation before Nathan’s wedding.  We are having a wonderful time.  We had a bonfire Monday night to celebrate Matt’s graduation with our Virginia friends, and Tuesday we went camping.  We headed north to Cave Mountain Lake in the Jefferson National Forest, and basically had the campground to ourselves. It was a gorgeous campground with very nice campsites.

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This past Friday night (April 4, 2008) Matt had his pre-ordination interview and was approved for ordination in the Church of the Brethren pending completion of his degree at Bethany and a call (or job offer) from a church (You’ll be able to read more about his side of the story in his soon to be launched blog). In the Church of the Brethren, (I can’t speak for other denominations) the candidate’s spouse is also expected to attend this interview, along with any interviews at prospective churches. Therefore, as a good wife, I went with him to his interview. (more…)

Matt and I are trying a new experiment. We are starting “unplugged” Monday evenings. We are going to leave the computers, TV, and Wii turned off all evening. Instead, we are going to do things like read, knit, play racquetball, work in the garden, or go for walks. It should be interesting. Especially seeing as we are both quite addicted to our computers. Giving up the TV for one night a week, especially with Tivo, will be no hardship, but not checking our email, Facebook, RSS feeds, instant messengers, etc. is going to require quite a bit more self control.

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Matt and I had a great trip back to Virginia for my mom’s and sister’s birthdays. We had a wonderful time, including some hilarious Wii antics with my mom and sister. (Check out the pictures) Neither of them had ever played before, and it turned into a full contact video game pretty quickly.

We were quite glad to miss out on all the snow here in Richmond and enjoy the 50 degree weather in Virginia. I have to say though, as we were driving home I realized this was one of the first times in my life that I did not dread leaving the comfort of my parents’ house.

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Well, after two false alarms it seems we might actually be getting a “real” snow storm. It has been snowing all evening, and it is supposed to continue for most of the night. Of course, the last time the meteorologist said we were supposed to get a big snow we got 1/2 an inch.

Oddly enough I am actually looking forward to some snow. Normally it just annoys me, but this year I am longing for a good snow that I can play and sled in. It seems to snow more often here in the mid-west, but we got bigger, more substantial snow storms back home in Virginia.

I remember getting at least one big snow storm almost every winter growing up in Virginia. My sister and I would put on layer after layer of warm clothes, boots, gloves, and itchy wool hats and spend the whole day outside sledding, making snowmen, and eating snow. Then we would come in and set our wet clothes and boots in front of the wood stove to dry for round two.

Living here in the city, where the closest “sledding hill” is a 10 minute car trip away and the snowplow wipes the streets clean before any really accumulation can build, I am missing my country winters in Virginia.