Halloween is a crazy time anyway...finding costumes, dressing up w/ makeup and the whole 10 yards, coordinating trick or treating, etc. Throw a move in the mix...and you don't actually have to dress me up for people to think I am wearing my costume already. :) the costume is... I am playing the roll of stressed out mom!
I know that moves can be hard on our children. Thankfully we are not far away from the other house and we have actually been hanging out at the pool of our new house we just bought for the whole summer as my mom lived in the Mother-n-law house and we were blessed by a phenomenal woman to let us buy the whole place. This is truly a testament that good things happen to good people.
Anyway, my girls have already become comfortable here, but none the less, it's still a change in their little lives.
So they are super excited for Halloween and all that goes along with that and then they are moving...I felt bad for them today as I believe they were very overwhelmed.
Then to top it off, we had a lot of family over and that always gets a little crazy in itself. Anytime I feel that my girls are out of their element or feeling uneasy, I stress to the max! They are my whole little life and if everything is not going perfect in their world...mother nature has me unsettled as well.
So tonight, they lay down in their new bedrooms and we are in ours. This house is crazy big and I am going to go back to having a monitor so I can hear them at night. That would make me sleep better...not to mention our big dog sleeps in their room at the foot of their bed. That does help a mom sleep better also.
Tomorrow we will finish the house and officially be moved in to our new house. Very exciting with a lot to get used to!
We will move for half of the day tomorrow and then get the girls in their costumes and ready to rock and roll the Halloween night. Can't wait for them to be kids and enjoy themselves greatly!
Have a safe night tomorrow everyone!
Showing posts with label Moving. Show all posts
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Moving...ugh!
So I have never been a big fan of moving...I actually don't know anyone who is.
Prior to buying my first house, I rented a house for 5 years. When we started looking at places to buy and finally found "the one", we made an offer. Mind you my girls were about 17 months old and I wasn't really thrilled about the idea of living out of boxes not knowing whether or not we would get it. Especially while trying to be a mom and what if the escrow fell through. I was not about to start packing until we found out we got the house...bad decision #1.
So we found out we got the house and within that week started moving in to it...for the record, this was the single worse move I have ever gone through.
It rained the whole time, again...my girls were 17 mo. old and I hadn't packed a box. Not the best situation to be in on moving day. :) Have I mentioned before how patient my husband is...I thank God for him every day.
Well needless to say, it took a REALLY long time to get moved in to our new house. You know when you have everything at the new house that you need to live and the rest of the stuff you still need to move from the old house is stuff you would never miss. I secretly hoped that it accidentally caught fire and we would never have to see that stuff again. Well it didn't...and it took us a month to move.
So now to the present time...we are in the process of short selling our "first house" and in between buying another one, we moved into a rental. We have been in the rental for less than two months, the old house is not empty yet and we have just bought our new house that we are moving in to on November 1st. Thankfully, the new house is our "dream house" and is the house we will be in forever...until we decide different. :)
I have just spent several hours in our old house that is being short sold and my girls' room had a lot to be desired...imagine for one second if all you did was move the furniture out of your childrens rooms and what was left...that's how this house looked. Every other room in the house is in perfect shape ready to go...except my girls' room. Now I know better than to let my girls help me or we will have to go through an emotional moment with getting rid of anything and everything, including the toys from McDonalds. So I have to go at this one on my own.
I just got through salvaging anything on the floor worth saving or yard selling and the rest is going to need a shovel to just come in and throw away. So I am taking a well needed break from the room and will make another go at it tomorrow.
But I have discovered things that I think may help the rest of you...all of your socks that you think the dryer ate the other one...they are under your children's beds. And for the headbands that you can't believe could be lost two minutes after they were wearing them...those too...can be found under their beds.
I have learned a valuable lesson today, the beds for the new house will be beds that have no way of anything getting underneath them...I think IKEA has a great set.
Off to shopping...have a great day!
Prior to buying my first house, I rented a house for 5 years. When we started looking at places to buy and finally found "the one", we made an offer. Mind you my girls were about 17 months old and I wasn't really thrilled about the idea of living out of boxes not knowing whether or not we would get it. Especially while trying to be a mom and what if the escrow fell through. I was not about to start packing until we found out we got the house...bad decision #1.
So we found out we got the house and within that week started moving in to it...for the record, this was the single worse move I have ever gone through.
It rained the whole time, again...my girls were 17 mo. old and I hadn't packed a box. Not the best situation to be in on moving day. :) Have I mentioned before how patient my husband is...I thank God for him every day.
Well needless to say, it took a REALLY long time to get moved in to our new house. You know when you have everything at the new house that you need to live and the rest of the stuff you still need to move from the old house is stuff you would never miss. I secretly hoped that it accidentally caught fire and we would never have to see that stuff again. Well it didn't...and it took us a month to move.
So now to the present time...we are in the process of short selling our "first house" and in between buying another one, we moved into a rental. We have been in the rental for less than two months, the old house is not empty yet and we have just bought our new house that we are moving in to on November 1st. Thankfully, the new house is our "dream house" and is the house we will be in forever...until we decide different. :)
I have just spent several hours in our old house that is being short sold and my girls' room had a lot to be desired...imagine for one second if all you did was move the furniture out of your childrens rooms and what was left...that's how this house looked. Every other room in the house is in perfect shape ready to go...except my girls' room. Now I know better than to let my girls help me or we will have to go through an emotional moment with getting rid of anything and everything, including the toys from McDonalds. So I have to go at this one on my own.
I just got through salvaging anything on the floor worth saving or yard selling and the rest is going to need a shovel to just come in and throw away. So I am taking a well needed break from the room and will make another go at it tomorrow.
But I have discovered things that I think may help the rest of you...all of your socks that you think the dryer ate the other one...they are under your children's beds. And for the headbands that you can't believe could be lost two minutes after they were wearing them...those too...can be found under their beds.
I have learned a valuable lesson today, the beds for the new house will be beds that have no way of anything getting underneath them...I think IKEA has a great set.
Off to shopping...have a great day!
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