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Well, I have to say the Pear Festival was quite the learning experience! I took 34 bags to sell at it and came home with 33. Thank you to Deb Peek for being my customer. I think next time I’ll just arrange to meet her at church so she won’t have to make a special trip in to Kelseyville to buy from me! 
It was a great experience. One I’d have to go through at some point, so better now than later, I say. I held it together fine the whole day of not being totally bummed out and telling myself that I wouldn’t be upset. Then in the evening I just wanted answers as to why they didn’t sell. I’m past that now (please feel free to NOT try to figure it out for me).
I’ve currently decided to slash my prices big time…to make just enough money to cover all of my costs and repay my investors (aka. Eric)….which is good news for all of you! Everything is $10-$17 cheaper than it was at the festival. Purses are $22. Small bags are $9.50. Medium bags are $14. And I’ve sold out of the large bags. It’s a first paid-first served basis, so let me know if you want to see the bags/purses asap. I’m keeping them in the car and selling them out of the trunk! I’ll post a few pics up here later, possibly.
Well, the big news for the day in the Schlange household is that we’re moving! Yikes! We decided last night that we need to move back to our Lakeport house….and when I say “we decided” what I really mean is “God is moving us.”
There are plenty of little reasons to move back, but the two big reasons are because it will save us hundreds of dollars in gas money every month, and also so that we can get the place ready to put on the market to sell it.
It’s going to be interesting trying to downsize, but it’ll work out. We’re having a yard sale this coming Saturday with Kristin Reese and Jeff and Connie at the Reese’s house (so be sure to come!!!), so that’ll be some of our stuff. Then, we’re packing everything else into two categories of boxes. One will be things we can’t live without for the next 6 months and will go to the house, the other will be things we can live without for a while and will go into a storage unit….that way, our house won’t look cluttered and we can always have it looking sell-worthy.
Because some of you know our renters I’ll be sure to say that we had to call them tonight to tell them…and then I cried while I did the dishes. I felt very, very bad for them. They were so nice about it and I hated to give them notice, but there’s nothing else we could have done. Please pray that they find a better house to move to and that it will go smoothly for them.
The last thing….Our moving day is officially (I think!) October 25th.
School is still great for Bella. She really likes going each day. Today she rode with Jamie to school since Jamie drops Mercy off next door to Anita’s and then goes in and Eric has to be in town at 7am.
Anyway, Bella said she was a little homesick while at school today. Poor thing. I don’t know what to do about that. Each day with her snack she has a small booklet in her lunchbox that I always leave a little note in. If anyone has other ideas of helping with homesickness, I’d love to hear them.
Bella always sits with her cousin Josh during snack time. He’s in 3rd grade. It’s so cute. He reads my notes to her if she doesn’t think she can figure them out. And then she only eats part of her snack since she’s a slow eater and everyone else starts playing.
We’re still trying to figure out bedtimes and such. She’s VERY tired after school, but then can’t fall asleep well if she takes a nap. We’re going to try putting her to bed by 7:30, or maybe even 7 each night to see if that helps.
That’s about it. Thanks for all of your comments on the last blog. SO fun to read!
So today was Bella’s first day of school. She’s a Kindergartener at Konocti Christian Academy in Lakeport. We started the day off at 4am when the smoke alarms went off in our house (all of them!) and woke the 4 of us up! The kids were crying and scared so the two of them and I laid in Bella’s bed until Dad figured out which ones were the culprits and put the smack down on them (changed their batteries). We got in bed just before 5 with the kids sleeping on the floor in our room. Eric and I didn’t fall asleep until almost 6, which was when we were supposed to get up.
Anyway, we dropped Noah off at Auntie Em’s house so we could focus on Bella, then took her to school. The kids all play outside until the bell rings so there were many (like 40?) running around playing freeze tag, and the older girls were standing around chatting. So funny! Bella was clearly intimidated and had a hard time moving away from Eric and I. I think if we had left then and there she would have pitched a fit. So, we stuck around knowing that two of her former preschool friends would be there at some point. Luke was the first to show up. As soon as I saw him I told her to go ask him if he wanted to play. He was acting very shy and nervous too but he immediately said yes, so off they went. Luke’s Mom was greatly relieved as she was nervous and apparently cried a lot as she left. Then Bella’s other friend, Marlene showed up. We had her go ask Marlene to play too which helped Marlene as she said yes, so Eric and I yelled to Bella to come back and give us kisses because we were leaving. She did so and ran off and was fine.
Next question is….did I cry? Yes, but just barely, and really it was Krishelle’s fault. I knew Krishelle would ask me if I was okay, and I was holding it together until we started to approach her. Just the mere thought of her asking made the tears come a bit. I couldn’t even talk to her or look at her for fear that I would totally lose it. Once I was in the car though I was fine.
When we picked Bella up we asked if she had fun and she said yes. She was disappointed that she didn’t read at all yet and she said the most “boring” part of her day was that they didn’t get to go outside very much (except for a recess and snack time in the middle!). JIt was weird when we left because a couple people said “See you tomorrow!” All I could think is “Oh crap! We have to do this EVERY day!” I’m sure it’ll become more normal, but as it stands right now I don’t like being FORCED to give my kid over 5 days a week! I’m just SUPER thankful that God worked it out for Bella to go to this school (where her combined K/1st Grade class only has 9 kids) than to the public school.
The pictures are ones we took before we left in the morning. The one of Bella and Eric on the couch is when he was talking to her about how to act at school (not like your Grandpa Rocky who ditched school in Kindergarten every day to go see his buddy for the first couple months of school!!!).
JJ
