Moving Day, Part 1

We're finally moving. The movers are at the apartment packing up our stuff. Have been for two hours now and haven't even started to load the truck. I thought it would go a lot more quickly, especially since there are three guys! I guess I figured it would be faster since I probably just would have swept stuff into boxes. Of course, they're doing it all the right way -- wrapping every little plate and knife. Hopefully, they'll start loading up the truck soon.

I'm sitting here in the apartment bored — obviously I've kept the laptop and our modem — and kicking myself that I left our digital camera (with a month's worth of new photos) at our new home. Otherwise, I'd get going on posting some pics. Mikel took the children and Shreve to the new house soon after the movers arrived to help cut down on chaos. And I don't mind this end of the deal. A little peace and quiet for me. The movers are doing it all. He can play helicopter parent for a while! I've spent time the last three days painting bedrooms -- a pale ballerina pink for Anna, a pale blue for Alex and this sort of goldish/kakhi/mustardy/greenish/tannish kind of color for our room. Once we remove some cabinets from the dining area I just might paint that room and the kitchen a buttery color.

Anyway, today the movers will load and unload our apartment. Tomorrow, they'll load up everything else we own that has been sitting in a mini storage unit -- and there's a lot of stuff, as we've been trying to live as minimally as possibly here in our temporary quarters. Among other things there are outdoor furnitue, washer/dryer, stove & fridge (which we now don't need since we bought the ones in the home). Unfortunately, too much of it is garage sale items that we just should have thrown away. Also, many of the boxes have been ripped open and stepped on by me as we've needed stuff here and there during the past six months or so. At times I was up to the ceiling as I crawled and maneuvered my way in search of treasures.

On a non-moving note, we've enrolled Anna in a 6-week swimming course beginning Saturday. It's a class that requires a parent to be in the water with the child. We've taken the children down to the swimming pool a few times recently and they loved it! Anna, especially, seemed to instinctively know how to move her arms and legs and should learn quickly. We'll enroll Alexander the next time around. We're also looking at some other fun stuff for them to do this summer, including a 2-week tennis class that they can both take together; maybe a little month-long summer ballet class for her since she's been dancing around and calling herself a ballerina lately. Just stuff to expose them and see if anything sticks. And, of course, it all will help with their development and coordination, as well as their social skills.