Homeless

Before I go in to depth about our absolutely crazy week, we had a visitor last weekend! My cousin Tori flew in from DC to make a quick visit. I was a little bummed because it was supposed to rain all weekend, but it ended up being reasonably nice outside. We went and walked down Newbury Street and went out to lunch, drove through Boston University, went into Concord and walked around, went to the North Bridge in Concord, and then on Saturday night went to Harvard Square for Sushi and ice cream while Abe watched the girls. It was so much fun having her and just about the easiest guest you could ask for. My girls also had such a good time with her and were sad when she left. Thanks for the visit Tori!!



This week has been INSANE. The moving company came on Monday to start packing and moving our stuff. They ended up running out of paper and some boxes, so weren't able to get too much done and had to leave early. On Tuesday they came back to finish up the job. It was so unorganized and crazy. Instead of packing up each room and then moving, they would randomly pack things and then move them out to the crates. They packed my entire kitchen up, but would leave one drawer full of stuff, and then other kitchen items out. Why not pack them with the rest of the kitchen stuff? I guess that would be too easy. An inspector on base stopped by and instructed the company that they weren't allowed to use 2 of the 6 crates they brought due to a bunch of mold. GREAT! They ended up bringing a moving truck and throwing a bunch of our stuff in there once they filled the 4 useable crates. They were even throwing random items into the back of the moving truck by themselves and untagged. When it started getting late in the evening, the moving truck had to leave since the lights didn't work. They still had more boxes and furniture (and random items they didn't pack up), so they had to pack them into one of the moldy crates they were not supposed to use. They told me that the next day they would take all the stuff they put in the moving truck and in the moldy crate and pack them into other crates. They didn't end up leaving until about 8:30pm. Apparently once they did pack all our stuff in the crates, they ended up with 11. I have no idea what they packed into those crates, because we only saw 5 of them actually be packed and they did not have 6 more crates worth of stuff. It will be really interesting to see what we end up seeing again and what condition it will be in. They pretty much only wrapped everything in paper; even our nice wood furniture.




Wednesday and Thursday pretty much consisted of priming and cleaning my house. I spent about 10 hours there on Wednesday and about 4.5 hours yesterday. I was so sick of that house!! Abe even walked in while I was cleaning and said, " I am so glad we don't live here anymore!" It's funny because we really do not like our house at all. We had neighbors on both sides of us and they were both so LOUD. It doesn't help that they were old and all wood floors. I hated hearing one of our neighbors dogs start barking at 6am EVERYDAY!

On Tuesday night we "moved in" to my friend Katy's house. I am so lucky to have found such a good friend here. I don't know what I am going to do without her! She practically watched my kids all week during this craziness and is totally fine with us all crashing at her house. Adeline is absolutely loving it. Before she went to bed last night she said, "I always want to go to Mary's house and play with her everyday. Now I get to play with her ALL DAY LONG!!". She hasn't been sad about leaving our house at all. She was a little mad when the movers were there. She got to come home a couple times during the commotion and she kept saying, "I'm just so mad about this!", or "Germany is NOT fun!". She was having issues with them packing up some of her stuff. Once all our stuff was gone, Norah was running from room to room saying, "Where did mommy's bed go?" "Where did Norah's bed go?" "Where did Adeline's bed go?"

Last night we got sitters for our kids and went out for Hibachi and got some cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. It was such a nice reward for such a crazy, emotional week. We loved being able to spend more time with Katy and Jason too by going on a double date. Only problem was that I ate so much food that I felt super sick all night because my belly hurt so bad. It even hurt a little bit when I woke up this morning.




We have about 11 more days left and we will be on our way to Germany. Things have been so insane that I really can't wrap my head around it all. For my own sanity I have just been focusing day to day :)