This blog, I'm sorry to say, will be sans pictures. We still don't have wifi in our new place (Nathan is calling about that right now!) so we are in Starbucks, using theirs.
The move this weekend was a little insane, but it went well. We had a ton of help (thank you, my amazing family!!!) especially in the morning. We were able to get pretty much everything moved on Saturday. We didn't really unpack anything other than our bedroom furniture on Saturday night, because we were exhausted.
Sunday morning, we woke up to a disaster of a house. Somehow, when you move, you never expect to wake up the next day to a house full of boxes...but alas, alack, the Unpacking Fairies did not visit us in the night, and we spent the morning comically digging through things to try to find food and clothing.
Around 11:30 we headed up to Forest Lake for my mom's 50th birthday party. It was so much fun! I got to see my brother Matt who came in from Chicago for the party, and several other people I hadn't seen in a while. It's rare that we get all 5 kids and significant others together...unfortunately, Emily couldn't make it. I guess we'll just have to go to Chicago soon to visit them!
After the party, all of the siblings headed over to Pops' and Grams' house for pizza and, in Cody's case, copious amounts of wine. Nathan and I had planned to do some serious housework on Sunday after the party, but of course, by the time we got home, we didn't really want to do much. We did manage to unpack most of our clothes, and I got a good start on organizing my amazingly gigantic closet.
Monday we got an early start. I had class, and chapel, and then we headed over to our old apartment for the last time. We spent about 2 hours scouring the place (it's never been so clean) and then loaded up the last few little things that we had left there on Saturday. Then we locked up, turned in the keys, and left. After lunch, we began to unpack the plethora of boxes that basically made it impossible to walk through our house.
By Monday evening, our upstairs was pretty much done. The study (with all of our books), our bedroom, and our bathroom were unpacked and completely set up. Tuesday was another long (but very productive) day of unpacking. We hauled all of the things for our kitchen and living room down into the basement, because we are renovating those rooms. Then we set up a temporary living space and kitchen area (with a toaster oven and microwave) and packed everything that wasn't completely necessary away for the next two months. I will post pictures of all of this soon. Promise!!
So today is the little things...calling about wifi, contacting our association with some questions, grocery shopping (we've eaten so much Subway in the last week...) and basically tying up loose ends.
Then the renovations begin! Oh joy.
Love to all,
Lissa
