Adjusting

We're into our third week now here in Lubbock. While every day gets a little easier, we're definitely still going through an adjustment.

The biggest adjustment for Korley has been moving into a big girl bed. Korley was a terrible sleeper as an infant and at about age one she started sleeping like a champ. Now, she's in a new room and a new bed and has reverted back to the sleeping pattern she had as an infant--except now she's mobile and can actually get out of bed, which makes it way worse than her bad sleeping as an infant. She goes to sleep somewhat easily if Jeff or I are in there with her, but she wakes up a few hours later and WILL NOT go back to sleep unless someone stays in the room with her. It's exhausting. Come to think of it, this might qualify as the biggest adjustment for Jeff and me, too! So, if any of you out there have any advice, please pass it on!!

For Landry, the transition has been a little more emotional. I think the biggest challenge for her has trying to make new friends. Landry had so many friends at school, daycare, our neighborhood, and church in McKinney. Hardly a day went by that she wasn't playing with someone. Here, it's been a little harder for her to make friends. The daycare she is going to has all of the school-aged kids together, so there are fewer kids her exact age. The first few days she was there, she would ask some girls to play and they would say "no, but you can watch". Little girls can be so mean. I think it's gotten better, but I'm really ready for school to start so she can be in a class with kids her exact age and make friends.

Jeff has adjusted to Lubbock just fine. He loves living here. His biggest adjustment has been learning his new job. He has been overwhelmed with learning new material, but he is liking his job which makes the adjustment bearable.

The hardest adjustment for me is just not knowing anyone. This is the first time in my life I have lived somewhere where I don't really know anyone. I'm used to going to dinner or something at least once a week with friends, or seeing my family on the weekends--now my social life has come to a screeching halt. When I was enrolling the girls in their daycare, the form asked for us to name an emergency contact and it stopped me dead in my tracks. It suddenly dawned on me that I didn't have anyone to put. I had to tell the director that I would revise that section once we met some people! How pathetic! ;)

On the bright side, the weather here has been a nice change. While the Dallas area has been dealing with 100+ degree heat, we headed to the pool this afternoon and my car thermometer said the outside temp was 86 degrees. In fact, I sat in a pool chair for a while watching the girls swim and I never once felt uncomfortable.

Stay tuned....I promise to post about more "bright sides". ;)

P.S. To the people who commented on my last post, I promise I didn't erase your comments. They strangely disappeared--I have no idea why! I think it's b/c I talked bad about Blogger before!!