Moving Week

This is going to be a short one--we have moved into our new home(🎉) but won't have Internet until Wednesday. So I am crunching this blog post out on my phone. Not going to complain because the view from my bed is a panorama of foothills and sky outside my windows, which is so far my favorite, favorite, favorite part of our new home I love having such a peaceful view from our bedroom.

We have been hustling, and have one more week of hustling ahead of us before we can settle in and take some deep breaths. On Friday we had some professional movers come to help us with our bigger pieces of furniture, like our piano. Anything couch-sized or bigger we hired out, which was the right call. I was exhausted just watching these guys. Their backs have to be messed up after what we put them through. Lots of stairs and tight turns and heavy furniture, and they only left one tiny ding on the wall.

Saturday, my family came to help with the rest of the furniture and boxes, and to help pack up our kitchen/pantry. Wow, I'm so grateful for them. I couldn't believe how many boxes we had ready to go, but also how much more packing in the kitchen there was. Chris saved the day with his flatbed trailer for carrying lots of larger items at once. When they left, Jared and I started assembling the kids' beds, because it was time to start sleeping at the new house. This has been the most surprising part of our move, is how well the kids are doing. They are doing MILES better than they did during our move last year. I am so grateful and happy for them, and for me. Last move was all panic attacks and solo parenting and no sleep for anyone. This time they are sleeping through the night without us, and telling me they feel cozy in their new rooms. This might sound unremarkable to anyone else, but to me this is huge and I'm not taking it for granted. I'm happy jack can still walk to school, his same school, and have his same friends over to play. I think everyone is feeling less shaken up than past moves.

We still have quite a bit to finish packing and moving over, but have to be finished by this Saturday, which is when our contract for our rental house ends. I also need to make some design choices, install baseboard trim in our powder bathroom, and paint the ceiling and trim in there before wallpaper gets installed this Thursday! I'm so excited to see how it turns out, and also ready to be done and take a break from interior design for a bit.

More I could say, but I will save it for next week and get to the pictures. My thumbs are starting to cramp up:

^^our front view😯

^^oh! Another big life update! This is the screensaver in my allergist's room. I went to get allergy tested for all the common indoor and outdoor allergens. I was pretty sure I had a dust mite allergy, and also wanted to see what types of grass I'm NOT allergic to so we could plant one of those varieties in our yard in the spring. They scratch tested me for 58 allergens, and the results came back positive for 56 of them. Turns out I'm actually allergic to everything🙃 This would explain my miserableeeee spring and summer in terms of allergies. The doctor is recommending allergy shots, and to stop letting Savvy come in our bed because I'm very allergic to dogs, as well as every other animal. Woof. Hate that for me. I'm not going to stop snuggling her, so allergy shots it is I suppose. Also, there is no variety of grass I'm not allergic to. Sooooo maybe we'll be having a turf girl spring. We'll see.