All moved in....but now where did I pack my brain??

Well it's been quite a week. Both Cam and I are exhausted. At times I was getting stressed out before the move that we wouldn't get everything packed up. Now I scoff at that "stress" -- The last few days have been such a wild up and down rollercoaster of emotions, energy and patience. I've heard that moving is on of life's most stressful events, short of divorce and death. Now I believe it!

New house is settling in OK. Some lumps and bumps but we've managed to get service people in and fixing up some things that aren't working correctly. The appliances in this house are truly space-age. Sometimes you just want to turn the dial and hit "start" but then the d*mn thing beeps at you and says something like "eOF" on the display and then you've got to go through the manual to figure out that you didn't turn the d*mn water.

The kids are settling in although waking earlier than usual (probably due to two reasons: Karin's cutting teeth and the more frequent traffic outside the house). But they are sleeping well, so that is great.

"Tried" to take Karin's 5 month birthday pictures today but she wasn't really very happy and was desperately trying to shove her shirt into her mouth, chewing on fabric and fingers seems to give her the most relief from teething. Poor girl is a mess.

Well, I will try to get some photos here soon, but for now will go try to figure out how the clothes dryer works.

94 Boxes

I've been packing for 2 weeks and we have 94 boxes packed. Most of them are small (wine) boxes, however we've got quite a few large (banana) boxes as well. I am wondering how much the total will be once everything is packed!!

Lost Time

I heard on the radio this AM that the average person spends 1 year of their life looking for lost items: keys, wallet, etc. I hope I find the following while packing up for our move into the new house.

* my Henkels kitchen shears. They went missing Easter Monday. I was babysitting the neighbour's kid and vaguely remember using them at the end of the day. ***UPDATE*** Found them on top of the china cabinet with my cake decorating stuff. I remember using them to snip off the end of a piping bag to fill deviled egs. Yay!

* our YMCA passes. Have been missing for 2 weeks now. Have checked every gym bag, jacket pocket, etc.


* my stainless steel water bottle ***UPDATE*** Found it at the babysitting room at the YMCA. Still no sign of the YMCA passes though.

* my 2nd pair of great gardening gloves....I bought a backup pair just in case I lost my first great pair of gardening gloves....but I liked my first pair better. ***UPDATE*** Found in the garage!! Woohoo! Now just need to find the Y passes!

* Wingo & DJ Chance's toy cars from the movie Cars. ***UPDATE*** Found. Don't ask me where Chance found them, he just did.

* Chance's 2 pairs of sunglasses ***UPDATE*** Found in toybox.

* Karin's hot pink hair bow ***UPDATE*** Chance found it under his bed while voluntarily cleaning his room. I picked him up and hugged him, I think he was a bit dazed.

* dayhome receipts & some other important papers...maybe I packed them????

If babies could talk...

...what do you think she'd be saying?