Starting to feel at home

Well, It's been almost three weeks since we moved in and we still have some boxes to empty. But that's not bad, they are mostly stashed in the spare bedroom. Art is really happy with his "Steeler Room" in the basement. I will put pictures on here when we are totally finished with it, it's getting close.
Art is still dealing with the gout problem. He thought it had gone away, but when all his medicine was gone it started to return. He got some more meds and things are better again. This is a good thing for many reasons, since he isn't a very good patient when something is bothering him.
Babysitting is going well with Casey. Art and I are loving all the time we get to spend with him. We are looking forward to seeing Matt next weekend before he heads over to Iraq. We already can't wait until next year when he comes back.
Here are a couple of pictures of Casey and us. He's got a great smile, but we couldn't get one for the pictures this time. Pam

What can happen in a week!

Well, we arrived in Cincinnati on Sunday at about 1:30pm. We did decide to drive part way on Saturday. They finished packing the truck about 6:00pm, and we left for Cincinnati at 6:15-6:30. We drove until we reached New Stanton, Pa. It was 11:00 when we arrived at the "Budget Motel", (aka, "The Bates Motel"). It really wasn't that bad though, except there was a group of men sitting on the tailgate of a truck drinking, and our next door neighbor was hanging out on the sidewalk smoking with the door to his room open. The room was ok, a little old and beat up. We had brought a cooler with some things from the freezer and fridge in it with just a little ice. I wanted to add some ice when we stopped for the night, but upon entering the office (which was situated in the middle of the parking lot, I guess they didn't want to stay at their hotel either), I discovered it would cost us twenty five cents for each bucket of ice. I just shook my head and left the ice chest alone for the night. The next day their seemed to be enough ice left in the ice chest to make it the rest of the trip, so we just moved on.
We arrived in Cincinnati on a fairly hot day, with Monday promising to be hot as well as good and humid. We check to see where we wanted all the furniture to be placed, we also needed to clean out the fridge and bathrooms. Katie helped cleaning out the fridge and the next day we were expecting to be moved in by mid afternoon. Well, we shouldn't have been so naive. We were never really given a time for the movers to arrive, but figured they would be moving us in sometime in the morning. We waited and called a couple of times, the best we could get was the driver would call us when they were getting close. It was 5pm before they arrived! They had to unload someone else's belongings before bringing ours in. That took a half hour and by the time they got all our stuff in and loaded the other person's back in the truck it was 11:00pm. It was so hot and humid, we thought we were going to melt away. The guys moving our stuff must have been much worse. Suffice it to say, we were dead tired from our day long ordeal, and showers were definitely in order.
There is much more to report, but I will hold out for now and write more later. It's been a very long week at our new digs.
Pam

We finally took the plunge!

Ok, here goes. Everyone else is blogging, so we thought it was time for us to get started. Here is a picture of us on our last day of work for Access. My name is Pam, my husband is Art. We currently live in Philadelphia, Pa. We are moving to Cincinnati, Ohio to live near family (namely our daughter-in-law and new grandson, eventually our son as well). We are really looking forward to this new chapter in our lives. Art and I hope to keep this updated as much as possible.
We will be leaving on Sunday July 8th from Philly, heading for Cincinnati. Unless the movers are quick getting the truck packed. We may drive half way on Saturday and finish up on Sunday morning. We will be playing that part by ear.
I have parents and a sister and brother in law in Rochester, NY. I wish I could live near them as well, but that's not possible.
We want to say hello to Katie and Casey. We're coming, can't wait to get there and start living in the great city of Cincinnati. We don't know very much about it yet, but we plan to find out all we can.
Pam