I find it a little hard to believe that it is September already. August was just eaten up by moving details. We didn't even have much planned but setting up house is really time consuming. And even though we've been living here for three weeks now, it all still feels temporary. Heck, we only got the internet hooked up in the past week. (By the ( Read more... )

I finally feel like I have a moment to take a breath. I should probably be unpacking or doing other industerious things while the babies sleep (I'm in charge of both Raine and Caleb while the olstads clean out their old apartment) It's nice to just sit for a moment, though, and it has been an age since I've played online ( Read more... )

Our moving sale this weekend went really well. We sold most of our bulky items. We've still got a fair amount of clothes and brick-a-brack to get rid of. The local chapter of La Leche League is having a yard sale in a couple of weeks, so I'm going to be carting a bunch of stuff over there. We leave town a week from Wednesday--I can't quite ( Read more... )

We packed up and moved all our stuff from our apartment in Lebanon, NH to a storage unit in Augusta, ME. We're renting an efficiency, where maxemulien is now, until the closing of the house, but nearly all our stuff is in the storage unit. I'm currently back in our old apt cleaning it and gathering up the last remnants of our belongings. I have one last ( Read more... )

Why is something as necessary as packing so incredibly tedious and frustrating? The good news is I have only one day left before we load up the truck...the bad news is I'm not nearly packed up enough to be ready to start loading in 24hrs.