Moved IN

We are all moved into our new place. We'll be sending out notes with our new address on them as soon as we can. This past week has been one of less desire. We have been in the house for offically a week now and I think I have only half the kitchen unpacked, and not much more than that! Well, maybe our clothes in the dresser, but not the closets. We have gone out looking for new living room furniture, have bought most of the curtains and a lawn mower, and had the exterminators come to rid us of our termite problem!

How did the move go? GREAT! Matt kicked me and our friend Becca out of the apartment almost as soon as Becca got there. We came over to the new place to start preparing for the boxes...lining shelves mostly. When we got here, we were met by a few (like 50+) Sugar ants in the kitchen! First Termites on Friday then Ants on Saturday...no more bugs! Fortunately, our friend KP was in town and was able to run to the store for some ant spray and baits! The guys made their first load from the apartment and then stopped for lunch. After lunch, we all headed over to storage and within two hours were back unloading everything from storage. They were able to move everything within eight hours! In the morning there were about four guys but by the end of the day there were eight...plus Becca and I. What a blessing it is to have all of our friends who helped and to their understanding, supportive wives/families who lent us their men for the day! We couldn't have done it without any of them!

On Tuesday, My mom arrived for a short three day visit. She was a great help in not only unpacking all of my plastic storage/serving containers (which now takes up over half of our twelve seat dining room table) but also helping me shop for curtains (I hate making decisions like that!) and caring for the kids. A couple of mornings she would let me sleep even if the kids were up...giving them breakfast! Matt and I went to a Red Sox game last night with some friends. It was great to know that the kids were in great hands!

As far as the kids, they are adapting fairly well. Sammie has definitely had one of her rougher weeks. It feels like she's been testing the limits almost every minute. Thankfully, we were able to take a short break from each other this week when she went to gymnastics with her friend Sara. It's such a blessing to have friends like that! Sammie got her hair cut tonight and I'm not sure if I really like it...it's not very straight so I'll have to take her with me to get it fixed up but also it maybe just a little to short. Before I know it, it'll be long and need to be cut again. Daniel has been good although he's totally off schedule and has been struggling with all the pollen in the air. Poor boy has had such a boogery (?sp) nose this week. If he wasn't such a happy baby and Sam wasn't so gosh darn cute, I'd be insane and committed for treatment by now!

Well, Matt's probably waiting patiently for me to come help him unpack something so off I go...HiHoHiHo, it's to unpacking, I go...