Moving In

One week ago yesterday we moved into our first house here on the east coast!  It was an exciting day, but more so...it was exhausting and frustrating.  One of the perks with the military moving your family is that they contract a moving company to come in and not only move your stuff but also pack it all up and unpack it....while that sounds like a dream come true, I can certainly tell you that it was in fact, not that.  With having over 12,000 lbs of household goods to unload and unpack, you would think that the movers would have arrived quite early in the morning; however they rolled in around 10:00 am.  They moved all the items into the house at a decent rate...Ed and I had to make some quick decisions about where things were to go since were were downsizing for the 2nd time within the last 6 months. A lot of things, including quite a few that shouldn't have, ended up in the basement and the garage.  It was a relief and very comforting to see our things start to fill the house throughout the day, and I knew we would soon feel like we were "home."

Here is our townhouse!  We are going to get a great workout with all these stairs!

Here is the moving truck!  And there was a smaller truck behind this big one.

Nico was very excited to start seeing his things being brought up the stairs.  He ran around the house, saying, "Our stuff; it is normal again!" 

The frustrating part of the day was at the end of the day when the movers said they were done "unpacking."  I went upstairs and found this horrible mess....apparently their definition of "unpacking" and mine are not quite the same.  Each bed, including Natalee's crib was filled with every item that the particular bedroom had in it.  We were able to get Natalee's and Nico's beds cleared off enough for them to sleep  in their own beds that first night, while Ed slept on the couch and I attempted to sleep on his arm chair...I ended up in bed with Nico hours later. I was so aggravated by the mess we were left with that the next day I was able to speak to the owner of the moving company.  He sent a couple more guys out to me to put some more things together and help me organize the giant mess that sat in front of me.

Pile of shoes on the closet floor

Linen closet stuffed full without a care in the world.

Nico's bed with a giant pile of clothes and toys on it...you are unable to see the empty toy box that sits next to the bed!

Natalee's crib completely full of every clothing item, shoe and decor she had in her room.  Her chest of drawers was stuffed with sheets and blankets which belonged in the incorrectly and overstuffed linen closet.

Master bedroom bed.....took hours to undo this mess.