Say hello to my new house:
Everything still feels a little topsy turvy. But, overall better, because we moved! My nest is feeling better in general, it’s kind of a difficult time to have the nest disrupted- when you’re about to lay an egg. But I am happy we got moved when we did. It was an arduous process, truly. I still don’t even feel like we have that much stuff but clearly we do, despite getting rid of a lot of it already. I know the last time we moved we said we’d get movers next time. But hubby seemed to forget that and wanted to do it himself with 4 friends. It took about 12 hours in total on Saturday, 2 truck loads. The boys had a few breaks so it wasn’t constant work, but it was a lot of work. I was feeling really bad for them but fortunately they had no delusions that it was going to be an easy job and had planned to spend their whole day doing it. Thank goodness for that. Hubby is of course very on board with getting movers next time it happens. Though, it was nice that this move was cheap- we just fed people and had to pay for the truck and moving supplies.
Even though I got off pretty easy by not having to move anything myself, except the pets, and a couple of small things, I spent a lot of time on my feet which just totally sucked. But fortunately we have a ginormous bathtub that we both fit in, so we have been taking baths together at night to ease our soreness and it’s been helping.
We still have a ton of unpacking to do, but we got the baby room all set up, and our bedroom, and most of the kitchen. Those really are the essential spaces I guess. Bonus is we can even park in the garage, though it’s full of stuff that needs to go inside and/or be stacked and stored appropriately. We absolutely love the new house. It is sooo quiet and still. It is not a shoddy piece of crap like our old place. We have nice appliances that actually do what they are supposed to do. Stairs that don’t creak loudly with every step. It really is the little things that add up and make it nice.
I’m hoping we get some more unpacking done before the weekend. I might work on it a little tomorrow while I am working from home, in between doing actual work. But, my main goal of just having the house in a state that would function if I went into labor, is complete. Now it’s down to business so we can get rid of the “clutter” of unpacked boxes and stuff not being in the right place.
So my meal planning and creative activities, and everything else has been on hold. But once the kitchen gets back to normal I am looking forward to the meal planning again. It really is annoying now, to not be doing it, to have to figure out what to do for dinner every night. I hate not having a plan! Tonight at least I have stuff to make chili, so we have a plan for dinner and leftovers- however.. my cornbread mix is somewhere in the garage…must find it. That’ll be fun. =P
