I’m back from vacation so I can tell you now that I was out of town. I try not to mention stuff like that until we’re safely back home for all the obvious reasons but now I have a huge backlog of stuff to share. Not a bad problem to have. What was bad though, …
Home.Sweet.Home. I'm a planner-type. So when Matt suggested we take an impromptu vacation a few days later I kind of didn't respond the way he'd hoped. "Uh-uh. Can't." Then I offered up a list of reasons to justify my initial reaction. High on that list was the fact that traveling with two children under the …
My angel babies are napping at the same time (thank you God — because they were ridiculous between the hours of 9 pm and 6 am) and I'm wandering around the house looking for the other "McQueen papuces" (slipper), the Doc Hudson car, the rice maker, the Furminator, the card I bought for my mom, …
We're officially moved! I keep looking around in amazement that we made it happen – with a little lot of help from our family and friends. Also, I'm looking around wondering where all this stuff is supposed to go. I love, love, love this house and visualized us living here every day since the first time I saw …
I'm sure the tickle in my throat is just a reminder to keep laughing as I make my way through this adventure of moving. Surely it has nothing to do with the crap care I'm giving myself while I take care of two sick kids and the details of dealing with utilities, insurance companies and …
This time next week we'll be living in our new house. It takes my breath away to write that. One week. Partly it freaks me out because that means someone has to pack all the rest of this crap up before then and also because … we're moving in one week. There are goodbyes to …
Matt and I ran away from home for a couple days. Which is to say we took a road trip to Walla Walla to return his parents' truck - because they graciously loaned it to us with a trailer so we can load our things up and stop tripping on … everything. This also means I …
I've been posting my notes on the house hunt and moving in the "Adventures and Travels" category because to me it seems like one of the biggest adventures of all – moving to a whole new place and starting over. I've moved enough times to know the drill. {Tacoma→University Place→Gig Harbor→Bellingham→Olalla→Gig Harbor→Back to Bellingham→McMinnville→Garibaldi→Rockaway Beach→Carlton}. And of course, within some of …
While I'm super excited {and stressed} about our upcoming move to Newberg I'm also getting nostalgic about leaving this house. The saving grace is that people I really like are going to live here and {hopefully} love our house as much as we did. I know this house isn't for everyone, but it will always …
I have so many posts in my head, on scraps of paper and in my drafts file but am having a hard time managing to get anything completed. Anything. Making the bed is about the only thing that I seem to do first thing that gets done and stays done till the end of the day. …
