A goodbye

Goodbye to our dearest apartment. We finished cleaning it out today and tomorrow I will hand in our keys.

As I was walking through I am amazed and humbled at how God has blessed us. In a time of great need he blessed us with a place that was quiet (for the most part) and pretty spacious. The bedrooms were huge compared to most apartments and we had 2 bathrooms (we didn't have that at our old house). And we had a washer and dryer in our unit.

I'm glad Little Man was pretty young when we moved in. A few of our neighbors loved to try new things, ah hem, smoke something that is not a cigarette. It took a year for Little Man to ask what that smell is. (I started replying 'That smell is the reason we are moving.)

It wasn't easy living in the apartment. I started feeling clastrophobic a few months ago and really was having a hard time even being in the kitchen. It was closed in and didn't have windows, let alone space.

I'm grateful we found such a pretty nice place. We could have been somewhere not so safe for Little Man. One place we were inches from signing when Daddy looked at me and said 'I can't do this.' It was in a duplex and our other 4 neighbors were bachelors. We feared there would be nightly parties. Luckily we made that decision as a few months later the same unit we were going to sign on caught fire.

It was pretty nice to go through a summer and not have to worry about mowing and watering the lawn. Most of the winter we didn't have to worry about shoveling the driveway.

But as I sit in our upstairs livingroom, exhausted and sweaty from vacuuming the whole upstairs and basement, I am thankful. Thankful we have to mow again and shovel (as we are expecting 2 inches tonight). Thankful that smell in my house is due to having viles of poo in Little Man's bathroom and not from something someone smoked.

So again, thank you apartment for being there when we needed you.

T minus one week

Six and a half days until we move. We did our usual Saturday morning grocery run and as we were getting out of the car I told Daddy 'This is the last time we'll have to go up 3 floors to put our groceries away. And hope there's a cart by the elevator.' Which, by the way, there never is. I have lost count how many times I've gone grocery shopping by myself and had to lock the elevator so I could get all the groceries in. I am not going to miss that.

Packing...yeah...that isn't going to good. I have no idea where to start. I've packed our movies and the odds and ends that were on the entertainment center. The kitchen will most likely get packed Wednesday night. That's the last night I have a 'real' meal planned. Thursday will be leftovers (we'll be having rotini with meatballs and twisty bread on Wednesday). Cereal and or toast and eggs on Friday night and Saturday we'll be having pizza at the new house. Daddy has bought paper plates and paper bowls so I'm prepared to pack the bowls right now. Oh and the silverware, he bought plastic spoons, forks, and knives too. I better not enjoy them too much. Eat, throw. I love it! No dishwashing. :)

Today I went to my friend's house and we cut out a train on her Criket machine. We used this wallpaperish type paper (I'm drawing a blank on the name) so I can just peel off the train and stick it to the wall. It'll go in Little Man's room and he is SO excited. It's a locomotive and a caboose. There's also a lantern and crossing sign.

I must go force myself to pack some more. Or maybe I'll dig out a movie and watch it with Daddy.

By the way. Go Vikings!!!

Eleven Days!

We are moving in 11 days!! It's starting to hit me that this is actually happening. We are moving into a HOUSE. More room! Four bedrooms (well 3 are finished)! A basement! A YARD! I was thinking about the move on my way home from work and was thisclose to bawling. I wonder if I'll lose it when we are handed our keys Saturday morning (next Sat, not this Sat).

The packing isn't going so well. I have 2 boxes packed. We have 7 boxes and I'm realizing that isn't enough. Eep! That's including a bunch of boxes still packed. I'm thinking throwing everything in a garbage bag is the way to go. Throw stuff in it, bring it to the house and dump it out. Of course there won't be any breakable stuff in there that'll just be silly.

Little Man just popped his head in (he should be sleeping) and said he doesn't want his room to be dark. Because of the closeness of the livingroom, kitchen, and laundry room it can get quiet loud with the washer and dryer going, dishwasher and the TV so we keep his door mostly shut. I told him with the new house we'll be able to keep his door open more. He wasn't buying it so I also included getting him a nightlight. He wants a Lightening McQueen one. :)

We are meeting the realtor at the house on Sat the 30th at 9am. Daddy is picking up a U-Haul truck at 11am and hopefully we'll be able to get everything in in one trip. Daddy thinks we'll be able to do it. That would be wonderful!! Then Sunday we could scrub out the apartment and not have to worry about doing it during the week and then do our final walk through.

It's coming up fast. And we can't wait!

Packing

I received an email from the realtor on Tuesday asking if we still wanted to move in the weekend of the 30th. YES! I replied back that same day and still haven't heard back. It's 2 weeks to that day and I really hope she replies back soon and we can move in. It'll save on Daddy having to take the whole first week of February off. I really think we can move into the house in 2 days.

We have a lot of stuff still in boxes from when we last moved. I just made the comment to Daddy that I have no idea what is in those boxes and don't plan on finding out until after we move.

I started packing the few picture frames and knick knacks I put on our entertainment center. Luckily it all fit in one box. Next will be the CD's and DVD's. The CD's will be easy as most are still packed and I'll just have to put the few we took out back into the CD box.

There's a pile of Daddy's clothes sitting on the floor from when he went through all his clothes right after we moved. I need to get those to the Goodwill. I can't believe they've been sitting on the floor for almost a year. Ugh.

I plan on taking down the pictures we hung on the walls next week and patching the holes. We don't need to paint (we decided not to paint) but I'll feel better if the holes are patched.

I can't wait until all this packing is done and we are moved in. Then we can clean this place out and bid adieu. We are getting very anxious and excited as the move date moves closer. I don't know if our neighbors know we are moving or what they all seemed to have gotten louder the past few days and it is quite annoying.

We're Moving!!!

I introduce you to our new house!! We looked at it last week (even though I have been eying it for a few weeks now) and are in LOVE. It has 4 bedrooms (although the 4th one is in the basement but not finished. It only needs Sheetrock), 3 of them are upstairs, 3 bathrooms (yes 3! The master bedroom has it's own bathroom! Nothing spectacular, like a jacuzzi tub, but it has it's own), one upstairs, and a full bath in the basement. The basement is finished (YAY!!) and HUGE. There is plenty of room for David to have a play area and for us to put the TV down there. There is a living room upstairs next to the kitchen and dining room. I'm excited to have counter space and storage space again! There is a pond in the backyard but we don't have a huge hill like we did at our old house. AND they have cattails around the pond! When we lived in our other house we had to cut the 'weed's' or the city would fine us. We didn't like this as this caused geese to come into our yard and there were hardly any birds. The house is in a cul-de-sac off a very quiet street.

The new house is about 5 minutes North of our old house! It'll cut over 20 minutes off of Daddy's drive. It increases my drive a bit but that's OK. All that matters is that Daddy's drive is decreased.

Today we are going to go put our notice in here at our apartment and I'm going to see if any of our friends are able to help us move. We don't have that much to move so it shouldn't be too bad. We'll be moving sometime in January. We're putting in a 2 month notice here so hopefully by mid January we'll be in our new house!

I better get going. Lot's to do today!