No, I still haven’t had time to go grocery shopping and we found another fast food place we haven’t been to during the move so we had Arby’s for dinner tonight. Solvei and Nels have had an Arby Melt before but I’ve cut up the sandwich and fed it to them with a fork. Tonight I just gave them a piece and let them try it on their own. They do fine with PB&J so this shouldn’t be too bad, right?
Nels did okay, got a little on his face and a little on his shirt.
Solvei…….not so much.
We are all moved out. We finished the rest of the cleaning today and loaded the last of the stuff from the garage into the car just before I picked up Saedi from the bus. Since we were done and it was still a while before we had to go to the new house, we just hung around so the kids could play with the neighborhood friends before it was not our neighborhood anymore.
Saedi’s friend Jacob brought out his pirate stuff to play with today.
We finally got the last of the stuff out of the “old” house and are now cleaning it. The carpet cleaning company was coming today so I had to make sure I had finished vacuuming all of the carpet before he got there. Normally the kids hate the noise of the vacuum and run from it. Solvei always tells me that it’s loud (“lao”).
When I came down from vacuuming the upstairs, I found Solvei in the living room.
I finished vacuuming the rest of the downstairs and did the living room last. Solvei didn’t even wake up as I vacuumed around her, so the only spot that wasn’t cleaned when the carpet guy came was where Solvei was laying.
We’ve been eating mostly fast food during the move. Not just because the kitchen was either still set up at the other house, or packed at the new house, but mostly, because of the move, I have not had time to go grocery shopping or time to make meals. It’s amazing how quickly fast food gets really old. You can only have the same thing so many times. I was really glad to find there is a Carl’s Jr by the new house, because it is one place we hadn’t seen since we moved to Washington (and so have not eaten at yet during the move).
We don’t normally do very much fast food, so this is the first time I have ever ordered anything for Solvei and Nels that I could just give them packages and let them feed themselves.
Solvei and Nels are learning new words everyday, so I thought I would share their favorites (most used) as of late.
They have both mastered “Mine!” and “No, Mine!” and Solvei has frequently been using “Own”. As you might be able to tell, they are becoming demanding, ornery little cusses!
On a cuter note, Gavin is pronounced “Gaa-Gaa” Saedi is “HeeHee” and because we call Nels “Nelsy Nose” Solvei calls him “No-No”.
I find myself telling all of the kids to do things “now” because they don’t listen or they dawdle (I know, just like I used to). Nate was working tonight until late, so when we picked up dinner, I brought food to him and then we went home to eat ours. The whole drive from the restaurant, to post, then home, the car smelled like food. Nels was hungry and he whined to me many times “Momma, eat.” I would reply with an “I know, when we get home, we’re almost there.” After a few times of this, when we were about half a mile from the house, Nels finally said “Momma…Eat….NOW!”
Our Pacific Northwest tree-hugging-naturalist native fellow statesmen would be proud.
We got moving boxes delivered today from a company called Frog Box. It will definitely make packing a whole lot easier. I could definitely see using a service like this on a national scale, they need to work out some sort of agreement with pods.
All those hours Nate spent playing Tetris as a child was actually time spent developing an essential life skill.
We rented a trailer today to get some of the big things over to the new house, so we could start “living” over there. Nate is very good at fitting things into the trailer around, and with, what else is in the trailer so it is a secure and full load. No empty or wasted spaces.
We signed the new lease and picked up keys today. We’ve planned it so that we would have 2 weeks to get it done, and we’ll likely NEED it because we have too much stuff. Now to get started on the packing……
“Tour of Homes.” Each year the Homebuilders Assn. of Greater Tacoma put together a “Tour of Homes” featuring newly built houses constructed by association members. In the fall of 1969, homes in [our area] were available for viewing by potential buyers. The event was heavily publicized with directions and photographs published in the News Tribune. 1969 would be the biggest Fall Tour of Homes in the Homebuilders Assn.’s 20-year history. Open houses for 29 new homes, with prices ranging from $17,000-40,000, would begin September 1969. The stone-and-wood home with recessed doorway pictured above is a builders’ model, located on the fairway in [golf course behind the house] at [model home at our address]. “Tour of Homes” officials are pictured in front of the home on September 10, 1969.
Walking home from the bus stop this afternoon Saedi told me that Gavin calls the white dandelions…..
I found a gigantic tub of animal crackers at Costco and bought them on a whim, because I thought they were cute and the kids would like them. They are Winnie-the-Pooh shaped.
In case you are not as intimately familiar as we are with Winnie-the-Pooh (having seen many movies/cartoons HUNDREDS of times) they are Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, Roo, Eeyore and Lumpy. Solvei and Nels LOVE them. They are quite tasty, but the reason I mention this is actually because of Gavin. He has a peculiar way of eating them.
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