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I just booked my plane ticket for our move to NC. Our stuff is going up via a moving service (less than half the price of U-haul, by the way)in a little over a week, then we will drive up to Melbourne. Andrew will drive up to NC from there the next day, and Jack and I will fly up the day after that. I am not looking forward to the flight - flying with a very active lap child of 18 months is hard enough if you have a lap, but mine is rapidly disappearing. However, its better than a 13 hour drive where we would have to stop every 2 hours!
I am getting even more excited about the move. I have been researching the town where we are going, and it sounds so different and nice. The population is only 1500, and it is on a river with a little waterfall/rapids area that looks like a lot of fun. I looked up our house on the mapquest satellite thing today (the google earth one didn't give a good picture), and there are no houses across the street, just open country. The street dead-ends into a cemetery surrounded by open land as well. It will feel like we are in the country!
Meanwhile, I am a little stressed out. I am helping a friend decorate her apartment, a choice that I now question the wisdom of, as I have yet to start packing our house. Also, there is going to be a lot of family in and out for the next couple of weeks. But, I know we will get through with it all fine and then we will be on the road! I can't wait.
Jack is talking more and more. Today he said "hat" and "goat." We went to a petting zoo and he enjoyed the pigs and goats for a few minutes and then lost interest and just wanted to play in the sand. He has learned to do somersaults somehow, and he is always doing them and then looking at us to make sure that we clap. He likes to do them off the couch or the bed, which is a problem. He is also having a lot of temper tantrums lately, which is frustrating, but in between them he is just so funny.
I am getting even more excited about the move. I have been researching the town where we are going, and it sounds so different and nice. The population is only 1500, and it is on a river with a little waterfall/rapids area that looks like a lot of fun. I looked up our house on the mapquest satellite thing today (the google earth one didn't give a good picture), and there are no houses across the street, just open country. The street dead-ends into a cemetery surrounded by open land as well. It will feel like we are in the country!
Meanwhile, I am a little stressed out. I am helping a friend decorate her apartment, a choice that I now question the wisdom of, as I have yet to start packing our house. Also, there is going to be a lot of family in and out for the next couple of weeks. But, I know we will get through with it all fine and then we will be on the road! I can't wait.
Jack is talking more and more. Today he said "hat" and "goat." We went to a petting zoo and he enjoyed the pigs and goats for a few minutes and then lost interest and just wanted to play in the sand. He has learned to do somersaults somehow, and he is always doing them and then looking at us to make sure that we clap. He likes to do them off the couch or the bed, which is a problem. He is also having a lot of temper tantrums lately, which is frustrating, but in between them he is just so funny.