Off the Beaten Plan

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Browsing Off the Beaten Plan blog archives for August, 2009.

Victory!

Well, I have 17 minutes of battery life, so this is just an update, not a really cool, thought provoking post. That will come tomorrow.

Today went well! I took the day off in case either of my kids had a complete meltdown on their first day of daycare and school, but it was totally unnecessary. There were no tears at dropoff, and both kids said they had lots of fun today. Yay! (Although my son, who got to go to the church just a few blocks from our new house on Sunday, said that he still liked church more than school. Too cute!)

So amidst my worrying, today, I cleaned, napped, unpacked, ran errands, and ferried kids around. I shopped at three stores, took three separate car trips, and probably unpacked all of three boxes before DH got home and started unpacking faster than I could think.

We obviously have very different methods to things. Which is why we make such a great team. :D

So Saturday we packed the truck, and Sunday we unloaded it. Basically, it all went well. We have lots and lots of boxes decorating our living room and dining room (but most of them are out of the kitchen – yay!), and there are several (45-60) boxes still at my parents’ place. My daughter, when we talk about going home, says, “Are we going to the new house? We get to live there forever? Yay! We get to live there forEVER!

Awww!

At any rate, I’m claiming victory over the move. My mom thinks we’ll be unpacked by Christmas. That would be seriously awesome, to be able to put up our new-to-us tree (belonged to the former owner, and is now slightly broken after a trip down the stairs), and invite my parents over for pizza and presents.

Thanks, everyone, for hanging in there with me! Sorry about the double post of links today – it turns out when I have Delicious send my links every day, it will send the last day of links it has – which means if I don’t update for a day, the same day is pulled twice. Yikes! Sorry that had to show up on your feed reader(s)!

Links for 2009-08-30

Links for 2009-08-29

Moving Along

Well, as I mentioned previously, DH and I bought a house on Tuesday afternoon, and this weekend, we move.

I dislike packing – I’m not good at filling a box so that anything stacked on top of it will be stable and not cave in due to empty spaces in my packing. I really dislike moving, because it takes everything I dislike about packing and multiplies it by a hundred or so.

But we shall perservere. These past few days have been a lot of hard work, but the end result – being in a home that is ours, with our rules and our rooms and all our stuff…completely worth it.

We won’t have Internet access at our new home for a while, or cable. Or a home phone. There are a lot of things we are doing without to do this, and do it right. So please, if you don’t see a post for the next three days, don’t abandon me. I’ve just started making progress, even getting someone to sign up for my blog’s feed (yes, you! I’m talking about you!). I don’t want to undo the progress I’ve made.

Since school starts Monday, I’m taking that day off. To make myself feel better, you know, in case the kids need me desperately. But I’ll be back in my groove by Tuesday, and hopefully will be able to even bank some entries for when I’m up and running again.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend, and I’ll catch up with y’all on Tuesday!

Links for 2009-08-28