Anna and David watched our buckets o’ plants while we were moving so we wouldn’t have to remember to water them! So tonight was the night we finally went and picked them up!!
Picking up our plants from the sitter!
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My first new neighborhood friend!
Brianna was the first one to come over and we chatted social-distance style at the bar!
Invitation to the pool!
The kids got invited to a friend’s pool (technically the neighbor’s parent’s pool) so they had a grand time while we were unpacking the house and all that fun stuff.
I might have gotten a little bit emotional because the same neighbors who invited the kids over today (so we could work on the house in peace) were the same neighbors who took the kids the first day we moved in three years so (so we could unpack in peace). Kind of bookending our time at that house. (In fact I’m even getting choked up a bit writing it now.)
Yes, I placed an ad for friends!!!
So I might have just posted a “We just moved in! Who wants to be our new neighborhood friends?!” get-to-know-us post on Nextdoor and Facebook (in a local Mom’s group). YIKES! A TOTALLY Jen thing to do though, right?! I had no idea what to expect… but (fast forward) it has been amazing!
Well it went over smashingly! By the time I was able to check back in I had four Facebook messages waiting for me and a bunch of comments saying what a great idea it was and they wished they’d thought of it, etc.
I think I added at least 10 new Facebook friends today. We have a socially distant park game planned for Sunday night with two families and someone is coming over for a driveway drink tomorrow.
A FEW DAYS LATER…
I was TOTALLY blown away by the responses. They just kept coming and coming. I think I’ve friended about 20 people now and have met probably 10 people in person thus far!! This might have been one of the best things I’ve ever done! We’ve felt so welcomed in this neighborhood it’s been amazing!!
Our first night in our new home!
The kitchen (and the whole house!) might look like this…
But at least I found bedding so we could sleep in this…
Katie’s keeping my makeup safe!
During one of our endless trips to empty all the small leftover bits out of the rental, I handed Katie part of my makeup organizers to put in the car. This is what she did with it.
The movers are amazing.
Aside from the fact that they bust their asses all day every day, they can do magical things like make this huge cabinet …
Fit into spaces you wouldn’t imagine.
Needless to say we tipped them well after this.
Soooo much junk left.
Just two of Katie’s walls after her room was emptied. Unbelievable.
I’m exhausted and I haven’t even really done that much today.
I can’t imagine how tired our movers are because they’ve been busting their asses since 8am. (Normally they load in one day and then unload the next day but the boss wanted it all done today!)
A huge thank you to Anna—my saving grace—taking the dog AND kids out of my hair ALL DAY. We’re also sleeping there tonight since the plans have changed about right times today and it will just be easier to stay there.
There is a tiny bit left for tomorrow so I’ll be back at it at 8am…and Tom will be back at work after his half day today (which was soooo nice).
Our kids are pigs.
This was under EVERY section of couch.
This was the total haul.
There was even a school library book in there (that he lost and had to pay for way back when).
We haven’t had a moving truck this small in 20 years!
So we obviously aren’t used to a smaller truck but we’re doing it a bit different today—loading some then taking it over and unloading, repeating until done. Since it’s not a multi-state move they don’t need to load absolutely everything at once.
I’m a bit anxious doing something totally different this time around but they said it should go quicker and we should have everything in our new house today. Normally it’s a two day process.
Here we go!
Why not look good on day three of moving?
I washed my hair today and tried a bun again and it looked horrible. I guess a bun only works for me on days-old hair…?! We’ll see what happens as the day wears on.
Anyhoo. Guess what? Sandstone Pearl Shimmer and….Sunbaked Shimmer today. And it’s glorious. But no lipstick today because I don’t even want to think about it.
A breakfast note for Maggie.
When bedding gets packed…
Moving boxes galore!
I want to get rid of HALF this crap, but we just didn’t have time before we needed to leave. Who can help me be strong and actually go through with it?
The kids’ PTO calendar submissions
I finally got the kids to make pictures for the annual calendar contest…I loved both of them but unfortunately they didn’t get selected.
Today’s moving breakfast of champions.
It’s just missing a homemade dill pickle.
Looking good for moving day two.
LET’S DO THIS! Another day of moving, another five-minute face with Sandstone Pearl Shimmer and one of my all-time favorites Mauve Shimmer!
I found Katie’s wishlist.
Might as well look good for moving day!
Here’s my super quick look from today. I’m loving pretty much any color with Sandstone Pearl Shimmer. Try it. You’ll love it. I promise. 殺
And so our last moving adventure begins.
Also? Just 12 minutes in my mask and I’m past being done. No way kids are going to last all day in school.
This dog.
Moving fun #31 —Refrigerator move day.
A simple thing like unhooking the refrigerator turns to shit because the water valve doesn’t turn off to the fridge so we had a mad dash to find buckets and we had to turn off the water to the house and it still leaks. Only then did Tom remember from three years ago that there’s ANOTHER valve in the basement. What next?!
This is what some meals/snacks look like when you’re moving…
and emptying the fridge and pantry—necessity is the mother of invention. Crackers, cheese spread, and balsamic onions. It’s delicious. I might also have soup going on the stove with the last of the baby potatoes and some leftover sauteed onions.
The calm before the storm.
Tom’s been at the new house painting the garage this morning (finishing up since his paint sprayer died last night and we had to buy a new one 😒) and I’ve been up since 5:30 but just getting rolling around the old house. Today we move the fridges around and it’s a logistical nightmare. My job is to fill the coolers with everything I think we won’t need in the next week to move to the new house.
Anyway. I did my makeup today to keep some semblance of normalcy.
Work doesn’t stop on a birthday!
Daddy and Owen were painting the garage while Katie was having her waterslide party. Yes, it’s purple. We only use Home Depot or Menards “oops” paint colors ($30 vs $120 for five gallons) for garages so it was bright peach or this. We figured the purple was meant to be.
Also, Tom’s sprayer died about 3/4 of the way through…so we ended up buying a new one. We hated to spend the money but he will definitely use it for future projects.
Once we showed up to check on them, of course Katie wanted to paint, too…so we let Katie do her name.
Just three more of the birthday girl!
Complete with birthday shirt, unicorn tail headband, and the shoes (heels!) she thought were appropriate to wear to work at the new house. Also, pose 2 was ALL her.
Today’s super simple look!
Neutral shadows and gloss only with brown mascara instead of black so it wasn’t as drastic. This was about my daily go-to before I started getting into ALLLLLL the shadow colors.
Happy wet 8th birthday, Katie!
When you wake up at 5am with an idea to hopefully make Katie’s pool noodle birthday candles a bit better (adding the letters) …and you’re hoping the rain stops so the whole thing doesn’t get ruined (because you were cheap and used the cardboard school folders instead of going to Target or Walmart to find the plastic ones) …but who expected it to storm this week (it’s never rained once on her birthday) …so you were taping candle flames to the sticks in the rain in your PJs (hoping the neighbors weren’t watching because the PJs were too short for public). Oh, and Tom put the letters facing the house instead of facing the street, so that required a last-minute complete rearrangement (because the letters were already pinned on—because we already moved the glue gun/craft bin to the new house). Phew.
But she LOVED it so that’s all that matters, right?
Katie’s now-annual haircut!
Katie’s hair still doesn’t really seem to grow much—even after almost a full year—but I figured a cut was a good birthday treat!
Masks on!
She didn’t believe me that you could tell if someone was smiling (or not) under the mask…
This was last year. Okay maybe it grew an inch or so? And it looks like the curl changed a little? Still not as much as I’d expect after a year.
