I know I've been MIA for a little bit. Doesn't mean I haven't been blog-stalking all of you, though! :)
We've been really preoccupied with the move. The household goods were shipped last week, so the house is empty. Hubby and I are sleeping on an air mattress (did I just time-travel back to living in Portsmouth, VA?), and the boys each have their own pack 'n play. Luckily, ours has a bassinet attachment for JC, but poor LB is sleeping in a rented one.
We were also fortunate enough to rent a kitchen set, with dishes and silverware and cups and cookware. Sweet. The last thing I wanted to do was live off Lean Cuisine crap.
I kind of figured that the hard part was over, but it's just beginning. Hubby and I had planned on letting the housing people clean the place for $300. Seemed worth it since it's a lot of work, but now we found out today that we aren't allowed to RugDoctor our carpets, but have to have them professionally cleaned, or pay the housing people about $400 to have that done. Couple that with the $300 cleaning fee, and it would be nearly $700! YIKES!
So we've decided to clean the house ourselves and find a cleaning service to do our carpets. That means a LOT of elbow grease on our part. The cleaning checklist that we were provided is pretty long!
The kiddos are doing great. LB loves that he can run and run and run all day long and not bump into stuff. JC is an eating machine and gets up during the night about two or three times, so I feel like my life is revovling around childcare. I calculated that each feeding takes about 20 minutes, and he eats roughly 8 times a day, so that's over 2 and 1/2 hours of sitting on my ass each day doing nothing but feeding the baby. Naptime is my only productive time... although today's naptime is being spent doing this. Momma needs a mental break.
So that's what's going on. We're busy. BUSY. BUUUSSSSSYYYYYYY. I don't think I can stress that enough. But in about one month, we'll be on a plane to CA and we can settle into our new house... Until we have to move again. :P
1 comment:
what a weird transition to go through. sounds like u guys are hanging in there though - and MAINLAND SOOOOOOOOOOON! must be a bit harder with the youngin's this time round. cripes, so much has happened in 2 years!
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