Playing catch up

I was thinking back and realized that I haven't been sharing pictures for a while so I'm playing catch up while I take a break from the days activities.

 Yana loves her big sister's rocking chair.  Well she loves everything Sarah plays with.  She has gotten big enough to climb in the chair and actually tries to rock it.  Big sister wasn't very happy.  This was in the old house.

 Our new house has stairs which have been the cause of nervousness - wondering if Yana was going to end up rolling down them, as well as fun for the girls.  This is another use for the sleeping cushions.  We take them to the top floor and she holds on and slides down them.  She loves this.

 Here is my sewing room after we got all moved in.  Thankfully it doesn't look like this anymore.  It is somewhat organized. 

I still have several things I want to get hung on the walls but for now I'm just glad it doesn't look like this anymore.

I hope you are all having a great day.  I guess I better get back to work if I'm going to get everything done today.

It's ours....lets sleep in it!

It is official....we are moved.  We closed on the house Monday morning and then moved as much of the big stuff as we could the rest of the day.  We also moved over some clothes and enough food for the night.  I figure if it is ours then we need to sleep in it.

It was a very long day.  Very exciting.  A friend of mine watched our kids most of the day which was a blessing.  We were able to get so much done without having to worry about our kids.

Tuesday my husband went back to work and I continued to move things.  Another friend offered to watch my kids and that was so helpful.  I started moving things room by room.  I finished the girls room, the hall closet and the bathrooms as well as box up most of my sewing room.  After work we moved the rest of the heavy furniture including my sewing room.

Wednesday my friend watched the girls again and continued moving things and then I started cleaning.  Floor boards, windows, blinds, mirrors, sinks, cobwebs and floors.  I didn't get finished but I got a good start.  I had forgot the comet at the new house so I couldn't wash the tubs and toilets.

Thursday my friend again watched my girls.  It was so nice of her.  I finished cleaning.  I remembered the comet so the bathrooms were finished.  After my husband got off work he moved the fridge and oven and man was it dirty.  I'm pretty sure we are the only ones to ever clean behind there because there was a lot of stuff that was never ours to begin with.  So they have now been vacuumed, the fridge and cabinets cleaned.
We started moving the garage stuff and then I went to get the girls and some dinner.  When I got back we ate and the girls went to bed and at this point a friend helped my husband move the rest of the garage stuff.  I was very excited about that part.  The rest of the stuff was really heavy and I really didn't want to have to pick it up.  My arms are tired and my fingers are raw.  After the garage was empty then I went back over to finish cleaning the tile while my husband stayed with the girls.

Today the Internet was finally turned back on.  Sorry I didn't even get a post telling you that I was disappearing for a few days.  Everything happened so fast after the closing that we didn't even turn the computer on til this morning.

My sewing room is a mess but it is getting there.  The entire house is getting there.  The kitchen is amazing.  I have so much more cabinet space than before that only a few things remain on the counter (other than lose papers I'm not yet sure what to do with).  I have my vacuum now so I plan to vacuum our new house from top to bottom today since we have drug in so much dirt.

I hope you have a wonderful day.  I just noticed that I was a guest blogger the other day.  If you want to check it out here is the link.

Well I have lots of stuff to do still before my washer and dryer are delivered and installed.  Have a great day.

Moving continued

No time spent in the sewing room today.  I did get lots done around the house though.  I cleaned off the desk in my room and then took the desk out to the garage.  I boxed the rest of the books on the shelf in our room as well as the photo albums and games in the other cabinet in our room.  Then I cleaned the blinds and the windows. 

Before starting on our master bedroom I vacuumed the house and then vacuumed the ceiling fans.  After I was done in my room I started on the girls room and cleaned their blinds and window.  I'm going to wait until we have all the furniture out of the living room before I clean the blinds and windows in the living room out of convenience.  I cleaned most of the doors yesterday and I have been working on the laundry as well.

Our garage is slowly filling up.  I am finding other things already in boxes and totes that I can just stick in the garage.  It is weird how familiar this all is even though it has been a year and half since the last time we moved.

Well that was my day.  Yana seems to be feeling better tonight.  No more fever just cranky.  Hopefully a good nights rest will help with that.  Have a good night.

Moving

Well I need to let the cat out of the bag.  If it seems that I am slacking in my blogging this might help explain a little bit of it.

We are moving.  We just don't know when for sure.  We have to be out of our house by the 31st since that is when we told our landlords we would be out.  We are now waiting to be told when we can move into the place we will soon call home for the foreseeable future.  So we are packing.  Packing boxes, cleaning the house, making phone calls, and just trying to get as much done as we can.

It is looking like we will be able to start moving this Friday or next Monday but it isn't a for sure thing yet. 

Yana has had a fever for the last couple of days and I'm not sure if she is teething or sick.  A fever is the only symptom that she has.  No coughing, no runny nose, nothing.  Just feverish. Oh and moody.  When she is awake she wants held so I have been using her nap time as my get things done around the house time instead of my sewing time. 

The garage is full of boxes.  The nice thing is that the house that we are moving into now is right around the corner so we don't have to box up every little thing.  The house is bigger and that is why we are moving.  We need more space.  The garage is bigger, there are more rooms, there is a window in the kitchen, more windows period so there is more light and it is just plain bigger.  We are so excited.

I'll keep you all posted and try to keep blogging away.  Have a great day.