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!
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