Moving to Temecula!

     Wow, I can't believe it's been a year since I last posted. I know, I said I would keep up with this, but since I joined Facebook there really isn't much of a point to my blog anymore. But, since we decided to buy a house, move, and put our house on the market this holiday season, I thought it was time to start blogging again. This might be just for me to document the stress levels, and home improvements, and to tell our friends and family if we have survived the rest of 2012.

     So... Scott has been commuting from our house to Riverside every day for almost a year. It's a 1 hour, 15 minute commute each way. Thus, we decided to move to Temecula. I had put the reality of moving off for almost 3 years, and we are outgrowing our house, so we decided to take the plunge. We started house hunting in June, put an offer on a short sale in September, and finally closed on the house just days of Thanksgiving. Buying a short sale involves a bit of drama, and our emotions were a roller coaster for a few months. But in the end, we got a house that I thought was a long shot, and I think it's going to be fine once we all adjust to the changes. Since closing on the house, we have been cleaning, painting, and changing the carpets. Let me tell you, we can't get anything done with 2 kids running around. And one of Emi's outfits is all yellow in the back from head to toe as a permanent reminder that we tried to paint the bathroom yellow with 2 kids running around. Yes, we fixed the butt imprint that she left on the wall.

     Tomorrow the movers come, which has been the cause of my stress these past couple of days. It feels like we have so much to do, and I didn't know where to start. Every time someone asks how packing is going, my response has been "we haven't started". Here we are the night before the movers come, and we finally started packing today. Thank God for Scott, he keeps things together and got a lot done today (and tried to tell me what I could do to help). We are still not done packing, and we figure as long as the movers can get everything big moved, we'll do the rest ourselves over the next week. We still have the kitchen and our room left, so it shouldn't be that bad...

     Things are even a bit more stressful because tomorrow is the girl's last day at Childtime. I think I am taking it harder than they are. Emi now refers to it as her "old" school, and knows she start the "new" school next week. But I am having a hard time breaking these ties. I have spent the past 2 nights trying to make crafts for the teachers, and making sure our xmas cards are done so I can leave one for the school tomorrow. Yes, this is what I have been doing instead of packing...I think it came out really cute, though. So, I will try to get about 4 hours of sleep, wake up early to go to Walmart to get cupcakes for the girls to take to school to celebrate their last day, and supplies to try to finish up the crafts tomorrow (yes, while the movers are here I will be working and doing craft in the corner). The movers are going to be here at 8am. Wish us luck, and I'll let you know how this all turns out!

PS - This is my second move, and the first was cross country. But that didn't feel as stressful (surprising, given we had just gotten married, sold a house, bought a house sight unseen, and then drove cross country). I wonder if it's because we have kids now. I am definitely worried about how they are going to adjust, how they are going to sleep, if they will run into walls in the night trying to find our room, etc. Yup, that's what's making this more difficult! Darn kids...