Many people have asked us if we are “all moved in”. I suppose that all depends on the deffinition. We are completely out of the old house (except for some cleaning supplies). We are well on our way to having this place in order. It was a VERY long weekend, but we had TONS of help (thank you Grandma and Grandpa Thompson).
I spent some of last week packing, but didn’t want to upset “normal” life too much. So we had our work cut out for us Friday. We spent all of Friday just packing and making a few van loads. By Saturday morning we were ready for the U-haul. Aparently we have more stuff than the biggest u-haul. Fortunatly for us, someone in the ward just showed up with a truck and trailer. We made one big U-haul load and 6 truck loads. However, we do fit nicely into our new house.
*Tangent*
I really have been learning my lesson lately on judging. I’ve never thought of myself as a harsh judge of others and the things they do but recently I’ve had my eyes opened to the fact that any kind of judgement of others is not good. I’ve had many friends that have moved into new homes and gotten rid of most of their old furniture and gotten new. I’ve always thought how silly that seemed, what was wrong with the old furniture. Well, nothing, it probably just didn’t fit!! This house has different angles and walls and things just don’t fit the way they did in the other house. We have gotten rid of a couch and a desk. We almost had to get rid of our bed and refridgerator, but luckily we got those to fit!
Anyway, it’s nice to be here. It’s nice to send my kids into the back yard and they play and climb trees. It’s fun to have them run up and down the stairs and have more places for hide and seek. It’s nice to have four bedrooms so that four people can sleep all at the same time and not get disturbed. It’s nice to go through all my stuff and really get rid of the uneccesary stuff because I didn’t want to move it, or I don’t have a place for it.
We live in a VERY quiet neighborhood. We’ve seen a few kids, but I think that during the week this place will be a ghost town. I’m sure with the summer coming, we’ll see more people out and about.
We still have a bit of work to do over at the other house, but we have some time to get it finished. So my plan is to go over a few hours every day and hopefully be done by the end of the week.
We did have a great group of kids in our other neighborhood that the kids really enjoyed playing with. We really knew our neighbors well and will miss them. We are only 1/2 mile from our old house, but in this day and age, there is a good possibility we’ll never see some of them again. We are looking forward to getting to know more people on the street. Our neighbors to the left are named Nina and Guy. Jaime can’t get over the man’s name, she can’t understand how someone can have the name of Guy. They don’t have any children, but they have two dogs!!
Guess that is the news. It rained pretty heavily here today. It was beautiful and sunny in the morning, windy and rainy in the afternoon. Love to all.
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