The week(s) have been spent doing crazy amounts of unpacking and cleaning the filth from the new house, and the dust from the old house. I'm happy to report we are 100% finished with the S. Whitney home forever!
I was able to finish moving all the little things we forgot just in time to get a nasty migraine and my chest cold to take over my weekend. Cliff and I both spent our weekend taking turns sleeping while the other watched the baby. I'd like to say we're all better now, but I can at least say we've improved.
This last weekend also was when Evelyn started sleeping in her very own big girl bed. Cliff and I finally put the crib together sans the drop rail and added the bed rail from when she was a co sleeping infant. Friday was her first night and she was pretty stoked to go from the mattress on the floor (what she had been doing for a few days prior) to her very own bed in her very own room. That was, at least, until she discovered she still had to go to sleep. She's been doing very well in her bed, and has figured out how to get in and out on her own. We still have to coax her to sleep, but she's actually sleeping through the night and waking up happy!
I'm in love with my new dryer and I've been going through all the clothes from our move pretty quickly! In our hasty packing some dirty clothes got mixed with clean clothes and I couldn't tell which was which anymore so I've had to re-wash them all. At least the dryer works with just one cycle so I'm actually happy to be doing the washing. The simple joys in life.
Painting is still something I need to tackle, but I finally found a decent matching yellow for my guest bathroom and we're going with a blue accent in Evelyn's room instead of the chosen purple. The funny thing is, Evelyn's room was the only room we had pre-picked colors for and we're not doing anything close to it. I still love the purple basil color from Olympic so I'll probably put it elsewhere in the house, like maybe my room.
We've been having some behavioral issues, and I have a lovely video of it now, that has been consuming all my energy but I am so grateful that school starts in just 9 days. And bad news turned good, Isaac wasn't accepted into our local school meaning he'll have to take a bus and be gone a little bit longer during the day.
We got our internet all set up, and I purchased a router and I've had nothing but problems ever since. 6 calls later and it still keeps refusing to stay connected or let us adjust any settings. I returned it, and ordered one that Jared suggested so we'll be out of internet until that comes in. On the story of internet, when Comcast connected me I was told I had on-demand. I made 3 calls that week confirming that my on demand wasn't working but that I should have it so they sent out a technician. He was really friendly and he discovered that I'm NOT an on demand costumer and I'm getting too many channels. He was reluctant to call when he discovered I was getting channels I wasn't paying for but I assured him if I wasn't paying for them, and we never watch them anyway, I wouldn't miss it. I'd rather be getting what I pay for and everyone to be honest. It was pretty funny, but I'm happy with my internet, I don't need standard TV. Commercials suck anyway.
Finally, as one more explanation for my absence besides all that I've otherwise mentioned, my cameras have died. I have a house full of them, and not one works. 4th of July Cliff accidentally threw my pocket camera and tried to kill it but it's still working. The problem being just after the filming episodes of this last week worth of temper tantrums the batteries in three cameras have been exhausted. The little camera works, just the charger for the battery is in a box. Somewhere. As for my beloved Nikon, it refuses to focus and makes icky sounds when you try. I took it for repair and the good news is the camera is fine, the bad news is the lens is pretty shot. I'm hoping we get a new one from craigslist soon. Having all these moments pass that I wish I had a camera for has made me feel naked and a little like a loved one has passed. Luckily for me, this loved one has the ability to come back to me. I wish we all had that ability too.
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