have survived week 1 of apartment living!

Alot has happened in the last 10 days. Movers came to our prairie village house on saturday may 21. i wasn't sad, just a little nervous that we were not prepared and organized enough for them but things went very well! i was so happy with the movers. they did a great job. htey were at the house by 8:45 and finished loading the truck by 11:15. that also included taking our beds, couches, and dressers to the apartment! that $800 was worth every penny!!

on sunday, scott and i finsihed cleaning our house for the last time. i remember unloading the dishwasher and it was so weird putting the dishes in boxes vs up in the cabinet. i vacumed the basement. i needed to do that for closure, i think. i was the one that wanted to do it. we cleaned the frig, scott cleaned the floors as he always did. the house looked great....looked so big with all our stuff out of it! the boys were playing with neighbor kids...that is all they really cared about. we took some pictures of us on the front steps of the house...and pictures of will, ryan's best friend. too bad i don't know where our cable is so i can download pics from the camera to the computer. it may take a few months, but i will get them posted :) we walked thru the house one last time. i felt the kids needed to so they could say goodbye. i didn't say anything sad. we just walked thru the house and said "bye owen's room. bye ryan's room. bye mommy and daddy's room." we ran downstairs one last time too. i took a deep breath and i honestly was happy to say goodbye to the basement. i did love the basement...someplace for the boys to go run and extra room to play but i am not gonna miss all the water issues! hopefully they are resolved. we had the foundation guy come out one last itme before we moved. everything was disclosed about the water. i pray the new owners don't have to deal with all that we did. i left keys and a note for the new homeowners. and then.....scott locked the door and closed it for the last time. we were officially out of our house! i wanted to cry but know i couldn't. wanted to be strong for the boys. did not want this to be a sad thing for them.

we went up to jana's house...the older lady that walks the schnauzer. she has come to love our boys, and we have come to lover her. she reminds scott of his old neighbor jenny....just someone who is a good person, honestly loves our little boys and loves to stop by and talk to them. she always got tearful the last few weeks we were in the house. i kept telling her that we would still be around. after 8 years, we didn't even know each other's last name....so we exchanged numbers and last names :) told her we would be around to play with the neighbor kids...and would always come back to see her to trick or treat and to just check in. i think she will realy hold us to it....so we better keep up our promise :)

and so we are at the apartment. we have survive week one. i can honestly say it "sucks!" the kids cannot run or wrestle b/c we are afraid they are too loud for the lady below us. they have no yard to go run in...we always have to be downstairs when they want to go run in the grass. we have no driveway to ride bikes in. yet there are postives. i like that the boys share a room. everything is very close together and easy to get to. i love laundry int he hallway. on the flip side, we don't have alot to clean. we love the fact that there is a big parking lot for the kids to ride bikes in and we love the pool. convienently, the pool is right outside our parking lot. we are also close enough that we can walk up to see the neighbor kids which is good. i just hope the next 8 weeks go just as fast!

we did get to go tour ryan's new school today. it's the last day for this year's kindergarteners so we saw all the classrooms and all the kids. the school looks great. everyone was so friendly. i think ry will really like it. we also drove by our new house. i made sure the kids knew where it was and we drove in the cul da sac. told ryan once the other people move out, we can move in. then it was off to walmart supercenter. we went to the one that is right down the street from us. thought i might as well start getting accustom to things out south. all in all, it made me excited to move. i hope the excitement stays in the forefront and i can look past the downside of the 8 weeks of apartment living!

Did i tell you....

that we bought a house????? it is finally over....or maybe it is just beginning. put an offer in last wednesday. we got the counter late wed night. decided to sleep on it. i worked a 12 hour shift on thursday. is it bad to say, that as we were at work, we saw another house that we liked. so while we were slowly waiting to send our counter offer back, scott ran on his lunch break to look at hosue #2. i met them at 7:30pm to look at it. great location....great floorplan....the open floor plan that i love. but needed tons of updates. we also found out someone else was putting in an offer that evening. we didn't want house #1 to get away from us. it was a great price and had many more updates and was move in ready. so we went with house #1. had to laugh b/c our realtor asked me three times "sara, are you ok with this? are you sure this is ok?" she knows this has been a hard process for me! but i think i am ok. the house we got is in Hampton Place....way the hell out south....159th and nall. but it's a great neighborhood with tons of kids. we can walk to the elementary school. the high school is just down the street too. we are in a cul de sac and kids will love playing in it. yes, i think it will be a good move for us. now we just have to survive apartment living for 10 weeks...b/c the seller's don't want to give up posession til the end of july. that will give us time to spend with the boys. we will not have to clean much, do yard work, etc. it will be 10 weeks of all about "family time." the apartments are right around the corner from our current house so we can still walk up to play with neighbor kids. you can count on us walking back up to our "old house" 2-3 times a week for play time. can also count on us heading back to sedalia more so the kids can have a driveway to ride bikes in, etc.

i went thru a depressive 3 weeks. true depression. would not eat, had anxiety like crazy, would burst into tears for no reason. yes, i even took valium that we had on hand. it was from 2 years ago when scott had to go to the ER but, heck yes, i took it. let's hope those days are over. it was a terrible feeling to have. i look forward to making many great memories in our new house......if we can just make it the next 3 months. until then.....it's packing time!

i can't wait til we can get the keys to our new house, let the boys run thru an empty house, eat pizza on the kitchen floor, and enjoy the moment. and then unpack all their toys that have been in storage over hte past months. they will be soooo excited!