moving week - monday

i can't get pictures to upload and have been messing with it all day. normally i would just wait and post later, but if i don't get started trying to catch up i am going to forget most of it! so here are a series of posts about our move. i will try to go back and add pictures whenever the upload starts working again.

of course madelyn would be "snack friend" on her last day of school. and, of course, i would have to do something that matched the theme (evergreens) instead of just some store bought snack. i wanted madelyn's last day to be special so i made christmas tree shaped crescent roll dough (baked) spread with cream cheese, and sprinkled with broccoli and cauliflower pieces, and decorated with carrot slices as ornaments. madelyn was very excited to take them to school and that is what counts. we also took small christmas gifts for her three teachers (they had a teaching student) and the director of the school.

once i dropped madelyn off, the boys and i were off to the mall to return our internet equipment and cancel service. it was so cold! we did a lap around the mall until i could feel my toes again before running back out to the car. a wipe that i had used to clean mason's face after a snack (during our lap around the mall) fell out of the stroller while loading the car and it was frozen solid when i went to pick it up! i actually thought that it was an envelop or something firmer at first. crazy cold.

while madelyn was at school i took care of the boys and sorted through some work papers that needed to be packed. matt and i discussed and decided about the response to our counter offer before i headed over to sign the paperwork at the hospital for him to send back to our agent. then i was off to pick madelyn up from school. thankfully, we were to the school early enough that i could nurse maddux in the back of the van before going in to get her; little did i know we weren't going to be home for a long time.

next stop was picking up uncle derek at the airport. he was coming to help matt with the truck since i was not, technically/medically, able to do too much heavy lifting and had to take care of the kids. thankfully, his flight was late and, after my detour (clogged with two accidents) to the airport when the regular exit was closed, he didn't have to wait at all for us to pick him up.

from the airport i went back to the hospital to pick up matt (his car was already in ohio). that is when i learned that he wasn't dropping us at home, but we were all going to drop him off to pick up the truck - 20 minutes away! so back east to drop matt off for the truck. thankfully, our neighbor across the street had offered to bring over dinner that night because i would never have been able to get anything prepared in time. we even had to call her because we were running so much later than planned.

we got everyone settled back at home, ate a quick dinner (yummy chicken, mac and cheese, and grapes), and matt and derek went off to empty out our storage unit onto the moving truck.

did i mention that the highs were in the lower teens (without wind chill) and the lows were less than 5 degrees (again without wind chill). i felt so sorry for derek having to help in these conditions. thank goodness for layers!

monday night matt and i were up until almost one packing our room. i think that was when i first started to panic because there was still a lot to do and i wasn't going to stay at the house on tuesday night (more on that in the next post). at least derek would be there to help with the kids so that i could focus between maddux' feedings. love.