We are moved....mostly

We did it. Two exhausting days, too many trips up stairs then back down carrying crap prized possessions, sore bodies, blisters, and lots of naughty words. We have 2 or 3 more trips with the van and truck tomorrow to get the remainder. Then return on Sunday (maybe Monday) to do a quick cleaning and then turn in the keys and get our deposit back.

Then, never again, will I force my husband to carry my/our possessions up any stairs. We'll make the movers do it as I sit in a lounge chair sipping my coffee. We see 1 more move in our future and that will be to a house we stay in for a very long time.

Here's a quick rundown of our moving madness. Tuesday morning we picked up a 16' moving truck. And got a discount for being repeat customers. WooHoo! Mike packed the truck Tueasday afternoon/evening with very little help from me. I mostly tried to get stuff boxed up or brought downstairs to make it easier while wrangling the kiddos out of his way. Then Wednesday morning, our awesome friend Steve came over after he worked all night and helped bring our mattress downstairs and moved that and the couch with Mike into the truck. The 2 items I am useless to help with since they are Heavy Mother F'ers. Then we went over to our new house, checked out the inside, and I had a minor (almost major) breakdown (luckily no tears, but they were close) thinking I don't really want to move but Mike thankfully talked me out of. Steve and Mike moved in the couch and our mattress, Steve went home, we signed the lease, I went back home to begin another round of up stairs/down stairs. Mike had to meet his leather repair guy on a job in Hazel Dell. Mom came in around noon and watched our kiddos so I could move stuff downstairs and into the van, then I met Mike at our new house to unload the van and moving truck. Then back to load up again. Mike's brother stopped buy and helped with moving the garage items and Mike's work bench. Mom took Peanut home with her for the night and I carted Maemae around from room to room trying to madly get as much stuff downstairs as possible. I think we did 3 trips with the truck, took it back at 7ish, got Taco bell and got back to the house around 8:30, I fed my baby, ate, put my baby to bed, unloaded the truck, showered and passed out.

Thursday Mike needed to be here to wait for the phone and Directv guys to show up so I ran a few errands, stopping by the house to get a load of crap prized possessions, and came back home to be greeted by my Peanut and Mom. Mom, Maemae and I went to the quilt show at the Expo, leaving my men at home to take care of things or play until it was nap time. Mike and I did another round of load crap prized possessions into the truck and van while keeping Peanut in the house and Maemae occupied so she wasn't fussy. We did manage to get our computers up and running and online after the kiddos were in bed last night before we both passed out.

And today, while Peanut and Mike napped, Clella and I got the kitchen set up and moved things around since I didn't like where I had put a lot of things. And this kitchen has 1/2 the space the other one did so I think I'll be needing to do grocery shopping more frequently and not buy in bulk so much. Tomorrow's agenda is my sewing area since I'm surrounded by totes and boxes and all my crap prized sewing stuff is needing to be taken out, played with, and put in it's new home. And it's out in the front area now and I don't want people to see how messy I usually keep it.

For now, I'm going to pass out next to my baby. Pictures later, when my eyes aren't burning and I find my camera.

TTFN ~ Crys