A new beginning

It’s update time.

 

Well yet another chapter of our life is beginning.  As I put on here before we were moving to Indiana.  We have moved into our new home in Indiana.  It’s a nice house, we still have an overwhelming smell of dog.  But I think slowly it’s starting to fade.  It’s been a challenge but we are still a working progress.  Most of our of boxes have been put away, we just have a few random ones left, that I’m mainly doing one the weekend.  We only have a handful left and they are boxes that are “hard to put away” mainly b/c there isn’t a whole lot of options of where to put things.  We were used to having more clothes and that kind of thing so now we are just having to move things around a bit.  Still settling.  We have had a couple of dramas with appliances but we are on the upside.  We didn’t have an oven and then my wonderful aunt said we could have her old one.  Which we took and brought to the house only to realize that the plug that this house has and the plug that we had on the appliance was different.  So Tim, thank goodness he’s available to us!  He was able to switch the plugs out.  So it has a SELF CLEANING SETTING.  Love that!  And it’s cleaned and up and RUNNING!  Then we had a gas dryer which we were able to run the gas hook up BUT the dryer didn’t work… L  So we had to get another dryer.  So when we got the new dryer this past weekend.  Well we got it home… and wouldn’t you know it the heating core is broken L  So my Tim again came and helped us… so they had to order a part but HOPEFULLY we will be up and running today with a dryer.  So like I said minor drama but it will be exciting when I can get everything up and running.

 

I started my new job.  It’s really kind of a fun job.  It’s nothing too exciting to be honest with you, but it’s a fun place to work.  Everyone I work with is similar in age with me so that’s kind of nice.  I am up front so I have the accounting people that sit behind us and they are fun group.  So that’s kind of what’s going on job wise.

 

Kid wise.  The kids are adjusting to their new spaces and being around family.  Lehna has had more tough days she really misses the neighbor Nadyne, but she’s doing okay.  Maya is LOVING her time with Deklyn.  She really enjoys her new space.  The girls room is VERY large and they have managed to mess it up about every day.  Since we still aren’t established yet in our house (still adjusting I mean) the house is messy pretty much every day.  I need to find a better place for toys.  Right now they are in tubs and some are in their rooms, their front room, and the den which is kind of annoying b/c the kids are CONTSTANTLY making messes.  So I need to really work on that with them. 

 

Tait is still in Kenosha.  It makes me super sad that it still isn’t here.  I’m hoping that he just goes back tomorrow and tells them that this week is his last night so he can come back with me after this weekend.  This weekend we are going north to Wisconsin because we have tickets to see WICKED I’m super super super excited about it!  Mom and Terry are taking the kiddos and we have a hotel in Milwaukee so it should be an exciting trip.  It would make it even better if Tait just said “let’s get out of here” and he comes with me.  He only has a week left, but I really don’t want him to stay another week L 

 

Let’s see what else… I think that’s it for now.

BLAAAAAAAH A SEA OF BOXES!

Okay so I KNOW that I just updated yesterday but I thought, ‘heck why not, right?’ I have some time to kill just due to what I am doing on a normal bases at work right now. I have been training the person who will be taking over my spot and she is pretty much trained. She still has lots of questions but I basically just sit in the room and she does the job. So it’s been a pretty boring week to say the least.




So I wanted to update and let everyone know that we will be packed and ready to go tomorrow. We are very excited about moving. I of course am anxious over moving because we have a deadline in getting out of here just because our helpers are going to be waiting for us on the other side by a deadline. So as long as we don’t hit traffic or anything else we will be fine. I am hoping that we have people that want to help us move out tomorrow because that will help tremendously especially because we have that deadline. The idea of moving almost 9 months ago made me sick, but now I’m kind of excited. I can safely say that I’m tired of packing. I’m tired of trying to pack 8 new boxes at night and that kind of thing, but at least this time I have had Tait helping me. Last time it was all me and that was sooooo hard. We have almost all of our lives packed in boxes. The worst part has been the garage only b/c a lot of the stuff packed in the garage has been packed from before so we went through those boxes just to get rid of some stuff. We have had a lot of stuff we got rid of. It was kind of exhilarating getting rid of so much stuff. I got rid of baby stuff a lot of baby toys and equipment. Since I am done having children. I still have the crib left, but Nikolai is still currently using that, but we are talking BIG BOY BED. I don’t think I’m going to transition him into a toddler bed only because I just don’t think he’ll need it. I think just moving him to a regular bed will be the best thing for him.



I think it will be interesting when we are able to move them into the new house. I am hoping we don’t have any “sleeping” problems with being a new space but I guess we will find out. I just will have to take patience, or at least try to remember to have patience. That will be the tough part for me, just remembering how to have patience.



We have a lot of new changes coming are way so adjusting to new work schedules, adjusting to time schedules (they are an hour difference), adjusting to be around family/but not in the same house, new schools, new friends, and etc. so there are so many changes, it’s a good thing our children adjust well to change or we would be in trouble. I’m fully expecting some resistance and some minor issues with behavior as we go into this new situation. I’m most worried about how they will respond when Tait isn’t here during the week. I’m hoping that they are SO busy with the grandparents and cousins that they don’t really notice, but I know that Nikolai will notice. So it should be an exciting month to say the least. I know that we will be overly excited when Tait is home with us instead of just on the weekends.



Soooooo that’s the latest and greatest!

Moving on UP

Well we are getting ready to close a chapter of our lives. We are digging up our roots in Wisconsin and replanting them back in Indiana. We are actually moving close to where we grew up as children. I remember when I was in high school telling myself “I will never return here” and now I’m so excited about returning. Tait and I always talked about returning, I knew when we were dating and his dream of being a high school teacher, specifically history and a golf coach for Peru I knew then that we would be returning, which is fine because I want to return myself.


So we are almost done packing, the truck is reserved, we have calls out to the wards in both locations so hopefully we will have people willing to help us. I’m just anxious about everything. I want to be there and setting up our house and up packing. I wish I had a couple of days to do that but it’s okay. I was telling Tait it will give me something to do when I get home from work. You know like taking care of the three children won’t be enough. But I’m excited still.

The girls are excited that school is coming to an end. Every day they bring more and more stuff home. I feel like my trash can is just full of school papers. I just have to do it when they don’t look, b/c if were up to them they would keep every paper they colored on! So as they bring home their stuff it goes into a box (the stuff that I’m keeping any way). I have packed most of their clothes and I wash and dry their stuff I put it in a box.

Lehna initially didn’t want to move to Indiana. She wanted to stay and live in Wisconsin. She was nervous about moving to a different school and starting to make new friends. Once we explained that she would be going to a school where her cousins when then the move didn’t sound so scary. Her only request was that she could finish the school year. We told her she would be finishing this week, so she won’t finish one day as we are moving one day short of the school year. After that she was TOTALLY fine with the move.

Maya can’t WAIT to move. She has been asking for weeks about when are we moving and when are we going, etc. She refers to the house in Denver as her “home” and keeps asking when we are going there. I keep explaining to her, her “home” is where we all our and regardless of the state we are always home. She doesn’t care. This goes right over her head and she continues to ask when she will be going home. So it will be okay.

Nikolai is really happy about moving as well. He doesn’t quite understand what all is going on, but he’s excited about being able to see Tim every day. I have been packing their toys so we only have one bucket of toys left for them to play with and yesterday he made a mess all over his floor with the toys. So I was excited that he was playing with them because the last couple of days, since we live in a sea of boxes he didn’t have any interest in playing with any of the toys. Now boxes he has been LOVING. Yesterday the girls drew a house on the box and he was going in and out of the box pretending it was a house. He also LOVES his riding toys. He has a TON of them let me tell you and in the new house we have carpet so it should be interesting in him playing with his riding toys. He’ll get really strong legs pushing himself around that’s for certain!



So it’s official however Tait did get the CPS job in Howard County so it will be official that he will be employed when we move to Indiana. I will be starting my job in Wabash on June 10th, which I’m excited about that. It should be a good match for me as well. So it should be exciting times at least a lot of changes. Lord knows I do enjoy as many changes as I can make for myself!