We have moved almost all of our belongings to our new house.  There are just a few odds and ends that didn't make it in the last load from the storage unit but those should be brought over in the morning when Chris gets off work.  Moving stuff is one thing but getting it all sorted and put away is a totally different monster in and of itself!  I have got the kids clothes hung up (thanks to my helpful Mom!) and all of their toys down in the basement.  I managed to get the TV working again and the backyard toys are up as well so the kids are doing great and just playing right along with all the chaos around them.  The kitchen was organized thanks to Mom and Katie... a huge blessing to me!  So the rest of it can wait until I have a break from school.  Classes start again for me tomorrow and the kids begin on the 28th.  Oh... yes, I did get them enrolled and believe it or not we got all their well checks done and shots administered even with all the moving riot!  I have managed to place a few things about to make the house feel more like home and have even hung 3 pictures on the walls... just enough to let the kids feel like they belong!  Boxes are stashed everywhere... in the basement closets, in the office, around the living room... it's nuts but at least it's home!  Izzy, our cat, is making herself right at home and enjoying being an inside cat with all the attention that comes with that job.  Sydney, our min pin, enjoys barking at the neighbors golden retriever although she doesn't get quite the reaction that she used to get from our last neighbors dog.  The kids have made friends already with several neighbor kids and have been really enjoying playing with children their own ages.  We went school supply shopping this evening and had umm, fun???  Well at least we got our supplies.  So now all we have to do is buy the "first day of school" clothes!  New pictures coming soon!

 

 

It's very early Sunday morning... moving day for us and I can't sleep.  I don't know if it's becaue I am so used to staying up at night or if I am just more excited than the kids on Christmas Eve!  I honestly don't know how we managed to pack our entire lives up in boxes but we did (even the cat is boxed up and making quite a fuss about it!).  After church tomorrow we will start the shuffle of taking all these bits and pieces of our world and shifting them over to the "new house" on Mayfair.  The kids are filled with mixed emotion.  They expressed sadness at sleeping in our house for the last time and worry about making new friends (and losing old ones)  It made me realize just how different from my childhood it has been for them to have spent the last 8 years in the same home. (Abby said, "I've lived my whole life here")  For me this is move number 16.  Oddly enough I have spent more time in this house with Chris and my kids than any other home I have lived in.  Our life has changed so much in the last 8 years.  This house is where we brought Abby and Spencer home from the hospital.  All three kids have learned to ride their bikes on this driveway.  Chas accepted Christ as Savior in this living room and later that year he broke his hand jumping the fence!   We had our first Thanksgiving here complete with three beautiful, sugarless pies that no one could eat.  We have poured our blood and sweat and tears into making this house our home.  The kids are right... it's a little bit scary and a little sad to say goodbye to the familiar but it's also exciting!  We have been working towards this for some time now and hoping for the day when we would be able to get a little more space for our growing family!  So I'll say a prayer that everything will go smoothly and try to calm my restless mind because I really must try to get some sleep... there will be no time for that tomorrow!