Ten days since I posted last! Wow, it’s been a crazy ten days too. This is what we’ve done:
My husband has separated from the military after eight years
We closed on our first house
Lived in our new house without any furniture for a day or two (after living in our old house for two or three days without furniture)
Had our boxes delivered
Did the final inspection at the old house (it’s a military thing)
I’ve been unpacking during the day and you know, doing the mom thing
Andrew has been working (with nary a day off except weekends)
We stripped the wallpaper from one room, I stripped the wallpaper from the wall in the kitchen, and I’m still working on the bathroom, Andrew has ripped up the carpet and then the tiles from the floor, then ripped the tiles off the ceiling, then scraped the glue off, and then patched it up, and then sanded it again and so on and so forth
We’ve gone to Lowes and Target again and again and again
We switched all bedrooms between upstairs and downstairs
More unpacking
More feeding and supervising of children
Oh, and “hIkea” as my kids call it and we need to make one more trip there
There’s been potty-training regression, emotional outbursts, tears over outgrown toddler beds, testing of boundaries, temper tantrums (by adults and children), and way too much fast food
I was holding steady with my last weight watchers weight, but the last five days have been emotional stress eating overload
I panicked and freaked out on probably five different friends about my issues over our upcoming second year home anniversary
My husband had a birthday
I’ve been moving boxes all over the house because the movers and packers did a crap job of labeling/putting things where we asked, but at least nothing has been broken
Boohoo has a birthday party coming up this week
I have sprained my ankle, nearly broke my toe, sliced a knuckle, jabbed the side of my hand, and cut my finger
My mom is coming into town tomorrow and my dad will arrive on Saturday. I am so looking forward to seeing them! I haven’t seen my dad since Christmas and it’s been two months since I’ve seen my mom. I’m super excited and so are the kids. It doesn’t hurt that my mom is an organizing and cleaning machine and she will do in four days what I haven’t been able to do in a week. It’s a little humiliating, but I’m desperate! lol. My head has been a mess lately as we come up on this anniversary and I take stock of where we are. There’s been lots of crying and I’ve felt my hope bottoming out again. I’m looking forward to my parents being here to get me out of my own head a little bit and bring a different atmosphere to the house for a few days.
It’s gonna be good, but probably not lend itself to much blogging. I have no doubt you guys will be fine without me for a few more days though! Has it been crazy for anyone else? Do you have a moving horror story to share with me? I have a really funny one, but it’s kinda personal so I’m not sure if I’ll be sharing it or not. You can beg if you want to.
