getting settled for another year

Hola, we are now settled in our new residence for this school year and what an improvement.
Last year we bought a little house to fix up but as you may remember it was a 2 bedroom with 1 bath and we made an additional room for Drew. This was a lot like camping out and we did not have much room for ourselves much less for entertaining. The kitchen was very small and the refriderator always needed defrosting and we could not keep food fresh for more than a day or two, so we were always going to the supermercado for food or we were eating out a lot.
Now, we have a nice big house that we are renting and it has 3 and 1/2 baths three bedrooms and a huge family room that was once a garage. It also has a great pool with a slide and diving board but the thing we like most is we have found a housekeeper that cooks great. She has made us lunch for the past week and each day it is delicious. Missy and Altogracia went shopping on Tuesday and she got all the food for the week and it was fruits, vegetables and different meats all for much less that when we go shopping. She is preparing us traditional dominican food and although some of it takes getting used too, for the most part we could not be happier. We also have Juaquin back as our all purpose helper. He takes care of the pool and the yard and the car and whatever else Missy can delegate him to do. He has fixed a broken window and has done so much in just a few days. He always wants to stay busy and I am not as good a delegater as Missy and when she is gone he asks me what to do, he does not want to sit around, yet I said that is what I want to do but I got up and found things for him to do. What will I do when Missy is gone for a week to Orlando in Sept at a comp? Oh well I guess I will have her give me a list.
On another note, I finally wrote down how I can post on this blog so I hope to have more posts of my adventures here too.
Well, lunch is ready for this Saturday so I am off to the dining table. until next time
Adios.
doug