Wisconsin? I love cheese!!!

Hello from Wisconsin!

On the road...you should've seen the car packed with ... lots of stuff.

Guess what?? We moved again!!

Yay for Wisconsin!

But only temporarily.

BTW, Did you know that there are 'mountains' in Wisconsin/Minnesota? Well, we're from IL so we're calling them mountains. To anyone who is not from a flat state, I'm sure they're just hills.

Daddy Boilermaker got a job in the Great Dairy State! And we are officially...boomers. Stick with me and you'll learn all sorts of new-fangled boilermaker words. “Booming out” means to travel to another local's job for work, upon their request of course. You can't just show up and say, “Hello, I'd like to work for you today.” ...Who knew?

Here's what happened. Daddy went into the shop last Friday to weld for a bit when the office manager asked him to head to an emergency job about an hour away. To my dismay, Daddy thought he might be gone all night. Luckily, I got a text telling me he'd be home that night. But he had to go back the next morning.

Anyway, while I was packing his lunch/dinner for Friday's job, he got another phone call.

Kirk: I got you a job in Wisconsin. Be [there] Monday at 6:30 am.

Daddy: You got it, dude.

*I may have changed some of the dialogue in this conversation.

I was now in charge of details. My favorite. I am, after all, #1 Boss while Daddy is away, so I put on my decision making pants and picked up the phone.

Me: “Hello? Is this an Inn in a really small town?”

Them: “Why, yes it is. How can I help you.”

Me: “I'd like a cheap room for potentially 4-6 weeks. Do you have a microwave, fridge, and TV? How about a bathroom?”

Them: “Cheap? Heck no. Fridge? What's that? Mircro-what? Oh, and we have a community bathroom down the hall.”

Times this conversation by 7 or 8. Minus the weird no bathroom thing. That was only one place. Cheap rooms though.

Did you know that hotel rooms (Non-skeezy rooms at least, see above.) are running around $100/night?? I had no idea! I sure hope it's a Wisconsin thing, because otherwise we may have to re-think this whole booming out thing.

Let's just do some math for fun. (No common core math technique will be used in this blog.)

$100/night x 7 nights. Times 4 weeks. Or more.

Raise your hand if you know the answer!

Puh-lease.

Thankfully, we have a Heavenly Father who knows our needs and meets them with amazing skill and expertise. Oh, and lots of love. Don't forget that part.

I spoke with a sweet Wisconsin-er named Audrey very last. I believe I even said out lout, “Ok, last one.” She has one place in Dairy-town that is already let to another man, who I believe happens to be the crane operator for our job. She was under the assumption that he would potentially be moving out and therefore we could have his place. I was instructed to call back at noon.

Otherwise, she also has a place about 30 minutes from the plant that is empty...or at least it was. She worked all of Saturday afternoon and Sunday to get this lovely, [huge] apartment ready for us. We are blessed with a full kitchen, laundry room, two bedrooms, large dining room and a large living room. And like I said earlier, she came down on her price so we're not working a week for nothing.

Lainie is wearing OshkoshB'gosh. I thought it was appropriate.

So here I am, drafting my blog from the futon, while Daddy is at work.

In other miraculous news, guess what I found?! Aldi! Yahoo! I was on the hunt for Walmart and unbeknownst to me as I was rounding the bend with my eyes peeled for the supercenter, I spotted that lovely orange and blue rectangle. I could have cried.

Baby and I went in to do our shopping and when I got to the check out, I realized I hadn't activated my bank card yet. Whoops. I had some cash on me, but I wasn't sure if it would be enough. And if you hold up an Aldi line-- well, let's just assume they wouldn't be too happy.

I told the cashier my dilemma and she told me my total. $68.52. Guess how much money I had in my wallet? $69.00. God is awesome.

When I went out to the car and called the number to activate my card, it didn't work. So I typed in my PIN again, and again...it didn't work. I tried another combination that could have been it. Nope. And upon too many tries, I locked myself out of being able to activate my card.

I tried a few other things the lady at on the customer service line told me to do, but alas, I think my card and PIN didn't sync up right or something. So now I have to wait until I get home to get it sorted. However, Daddy has his card, and since he's working and I'm the one doing the shopping, he won't be needing it anyway.

I still maintain the Lord has his hand on us. Thank you, Jesus for seeing fit to protect us from things even if they seem trivial in every day life.

SIDE NOTE:

Daddy had to shave part of his beard off......sad day.