Hello from another week in moving limbo!
Positives from the week:
1-No one is physically ill at this time...except maybe Jack who appears to be coming down with something, but it hasn't landed yet so I'm going to take this win for one more day and cling to it.
2-My parents continue to feed and shelter us and be the best company, and pick Jack up from school etc etc etc. This would be a muchhhh harder move if I didn't have them in my corner.
3-We are discovering the magic of Utah parks! Yes it is freezing outside. But wow, the parks here are phenomenal, and so prolific. This is especially fabulous to us coming from a town that had exactly one public park, and it was pretty sketchy.
4-We have heat set up in our rental house. We even hosted a little play date with my high school bestie and her kids one afternoon to try and infuse some happy play into our formerly sad, empty, cold space. We're getting there.
5-We were able to attend some get-togethers with family members this week and it just warmed my heart so much. I haven't seen some of my Haines cousins in a decade and we had the loveliest casual potluck of Haineses yesterday. My kids played so well with all the other kids around that, even without Jared there, I was able to eat and chat with long-lost relatives the whole time (ok, I think I am the long-lost relative in this situation). I almost cried from happiness on the drive home.
6-Jared drives home to us tomorrow!!!!
Negatives from the week:
1. Jack is having a really hard time with school right now. He got put in a loud class, and his recess and P.E. hours haven't been what he expected. He's just taking all the changes pretty hard. I'm going to be in touch with his teacher to see what we can do to hopefully make things better going forward, but man. It's borderline impossible to get him to go into his school in the mornings and I feel so sad for him.
2. Jared is going to be driving home to us in the middle of a really bad weather system hitting Washington. And there kind of isn't another option because the entire 10-day forecast for the mountain passes we normally have to drive through show daily blizzards. He is going to go a different, longer route than usual to try and stay safe. Prayers.
3. I got a bad haircut. I'm normally such an overthinker so it's a mystery why I do this, but I have a bad habit of spontaneously deciding I want a dramatic haircut NOW, looking at professional places and realizing I'll have to wait several days and pay a lot of money, and then saying, "Eh, I'll just run down to Great Clips/Fantastic Sams," where I proceed to get a bad haircut every time. I shouldn't say it's a bad haircut. She actually did a pretty good job. It's just a lot shorter than I was expecting. I told her I wanted it grazing my shoulders, but somehow it ended up at my chin with even shorter layers all around. At first I was like, "Ok cute, this isn't so bad. I look like a 90s hot mom." But then nighttime came and I was like, "Oh no, no no no, this is 100% Severus Snape hair." I will say, I don't hate it. It just doesn't feel like me. But alas, as always, it will grow on me (*snicker, snicker*).
