We climbed into our bed last night (Mark was polite enough to wait only moderately impatiently for me so we could do it at the same time) and it was like God had put a cloud in my room. I laid there, staring at the ceiling, and then proclaimed that it felt weird to be so CLOSE to it. Mark agreed and said it was like the room had gotten shorter. Then we laid there a little longer, and I said, "Can this moment just last forever?"

Yes, having my own bed, my old sheets (which actually somehow SMELL like "home"), all of it back in my possession was really THAT good. I slept almost entirely through the night for the first time in nearly 3 months, and I didn't freeze at any point during the night. I'd call that a massive success.

I had some further drama last night trying to hang pictures on the wall. Several of the major walls I wanted to use for picture hanging seem to be solid concrete and completely worthless. You can't even get the entire tip of the nail in past the paint before the nail bends. Miserable walls. I haven't entirely given up yet, but I am frustrated with my worthless perpetually blank (except for the ink and pencil marks I keep making on them to guide my nail placement) walls. Today I managed to hang a couple of Amaris' shelves in her room, and a couple of pictures. So that's a good sign and I feel like I've at least accomplished SOMETHING.

So far I think the only thing missing from our shipment is one bedside table lamp. Which is an odd thing to go missing. Perhaps the NTS movers packed it by mistake? I will have no way of knowing the answer for the next three years unless it magically appears here somehow.

Anyways we're about settled in, we're making it work.