Life in Florence

Well we have officially lived in Florence for exactly one month now! It feels as if we've been here much longer as we've settled in so nicely. I've gotten nearly everything unpacked and organized, except for the office which is still an organized mess unfortunately! It's been so nice to have a lot more room for storage and not feeling like we've got to "squeeze" around our furniture to move around like we did in the apartment.

Tila & Tessa have certainly settled in nicely. They love their new house and new town! They spend hours and hours outside each day just sniffing, exploring, and barking at the neighbor's dog. They also get to go to the city dog park and the beach at least a couple times each week!

Washbourne State Park north of Florence has a beautiful quiet beach area!

Singing Pines the dog park

Kyle has had his first 2 weeks of work at the police department, and this last Sunday he left for the Police Academy in Salem! He's been gone all week and will be home this evening for the weekend. He will be in the academy until the end of February, which is going to make for a long 4 months! We won't have spent this much time apart from each other since he was in Afghanistan. It's made for a lonely week (and many more to come unfortunately), but it will be worth it in the end for us both! I'm very proud of Kyle for how hard he's working at the academy, it involves a lot of early mornings of PT, long class hours, and then more homework in the evening.

This isn't Kyle's class, but its a picture of one like his at the DPSST Academy in Salem.

While Kyle has been working hard at the academy I have been job searching like crazy. I didn't get a job I'd interviewed for in Coos Bay, which was very disappointing, but I did get offered a job in Newport! I will be temping for their hygienist for 4 days, and then after that they asked me to continue on permanently every Tuesday! I'm very excited for this opportunity, the office seems like a wonderful place to start. Hopefully it won't take me long to find another office I can work in 1-2 days a week (it's common for hygienists to work in multiple offices).

Because I have a lot of time to myself during the week when I'm not working or volunteering at the Senior Center here in town, I would love to have family and friends come stay! We have a great guest area that I've tried to make real "home-y". It has a bed, small kitchen table, full bathroom, full kitchen, and small sofa. So come stay with us!! :)

I wish I had more exciting things to report, but hopefully in the future there will be more exciting news! :) Thanks for reading!

Deidre, Kyle, Tila & Tessa