Well. We had a little bit of a hiccup there because we thought PC was headed to A-stan. Im unbelievably grateful that he’s not. In addition to that we moved last week and, well, despite the fact that I’ve gone to flea market after flea market and thought I was doing so good purging we had over 10,000lbs of stuff. We moved here with 3000. Granted- a good bit of that was all our food and alcohol, gallons of water and potted plants but still, I guess I can’t acquire too much more stuff while Im here. Moving is always so much more work than you think its going to be. Our saving grace has been late night trips to the club for peanut butter parfaits after the kids are asleep and we’re pooped. Mmmmm.

It was a little (and I stress little) bittersweet leaving the cement bungalow (what are we going to call this house?? This one will be the deluxe bungalow). Sadly/strangely? That house is the longest we’ve lived anywhere since….uh, since I was a kid living at home I guess. So much happened in that house. We moved there when Nathan was a 5 month old– FIVE month old! Now he’s almost a 5 YEAR old. Mackenzie came home to that house, we became a family of four in that house. But, at the end of the day its just 4 cement walls and seafoam tile.

Our new place is pretty much the exact same house except with a dining room in the front which oddly makes such a huge difference. We no longer have to split our family room into family room and dining room. Now the kids actually get a sizable area to play. And we have a backyard. A really nice big back yard. Its a lot of mud and clover but I sprinkled some grass seed and hopefully we’ll have more grass than mud soon. And speaking of back yard, we’ve talked about getting the kids a playhouse. Well. That proved to be not just difficult but flat out impossible. The BX has none. I tried to order them from the BX’s online store and ha- they won’t ship them over here. So, thats really awesome that they don’t even ship to the exact people they are supposed to be selling to. If it weren’t for our “weight problem” (we’ve got 10,000lbs, we’re only allowed 14,000 and we’ve got a decent amount in storage so we’ve got to be hovering around our max) I’d have PC build something amazing. He’s a pretty crafty craftsman and I’d feel….vindicated? Like the BX can take its plastic playhouse and shove it. Sadly, the end result is still the same: no playhouse.

Time to get back to work.

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