I promised myself that I would be better about writing my blog this year! The past few months have provided numerous ups and downs in our crazy life. To shortly recap, we have been working full time (this has contributed most to our high stress levels) and looking for a new house to buy. We found a house we LOVED in late October/early November and put in an offer. After a short negotiation period, our offer was accepted and we just moved in last weekend! (With the help of a few of our amazing friends.)
our house
So now we are trying to unpack the mass chaos and find some order in our lives. When we received possession of our house, we planned on moving in slowly in order to fix up some of the things in the house. We wanted to get in and paint a few rooms, while moving smaller boxes of things in order to make the move go more smoothly. Well. . . . .we are not good planners and it took us way longer than expected to paint, therefore, nothing in our rental home was put in boxes. We recruited a few of our friends for a particular weekend to help us move, so we had to light a fire under our butts to get us moving. We starting packing 4 days before the big move. When our friends arrived, most of our rental home was still unpacked. I am sure our friends loved our lack of organizational skills. Especially when I started telling every one to shove things in random boxes and not to worry about labeling anything. It all worked out and everything was packed and moved in one day. I had to go back to the rental house the next day to clean up and pick up a few odds and ends. So all in all, our move was a huge success. Even if every one was a little on edge by the end of the day. :)
our friends in our crawl space
Now we are in our new house and finally getting around to finding all of our belongings. I love opening the random boxes to find my blender next to a box of tampons. It's great fun! Yesterday I FINALLY found all of our kitchen stuff and plan on going to the grocery store so we can start to eat more than fast food everyday. We were starting to run out of options. Our dinner decisions started to sound like this, "Well hunny, what do you want to eat tonight? Wendy's....again, McDonald's .....again, or should we just pick up something from the gas station? Gas station sounds good!" We are pathetic!
our piles of boxes
We also bought a gym membership the beginning of January when they have all those deals like... "Join today and we'll throw in a free month's membership, with a free t-shirt, and a side of grueling pain and agony, paired with guilt for being suckered into a year membership and never setting foot into the gym!" We were all about the guilt because we have not yet set food in the gym. Actually it was a really good deal.... you paid $3 for the first month and then had to sign your life away to commit to a membership for an entire year. Matt and I are overachievers, so we went with the two-year membership that claims to be cheaper in the long run. We probably need to start thinking about actually going to the gym.
Well... I am headed out in the bitter cold to go to the gym and the grocery store. It is sooo cold here right now! I think the temperature is 17 degrees but with the wind chill it feels like -2 degrees! I am kind of hoping for a "cold" day off school tomorrow. Just one of the perks of living in Ohio. I am still not quite adjusted to the cold from living in Texas for three years, but if anything will get me adjusted quickly it will be this weeks weather forecast!
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