We've moved

Oh, goodness, do I really want to write about this? I am having second thoughts now. Well, I guess all has to be documented good and bad.

Not to mislead anyone, I am really happy about our move. I have been counting days until we would have an extra room. Setting up a playpen downstairs and transferring Tyler into it after his last night feeding every night got old in a hurry. We did that because that was the only way any of us got any sleep in the mornings. It also was hard to get up at Tyler's every whimper at night, because if I did not, before we knew it Lydia would yell to us from her bed that the baby was crying (in case we missed it). So to repeat myself, we were only too happy to move into a 3 bedroom apartment. The problem was-the actual move process. But we will get to that later.

The official reason for our move was that Stanford was renovating Escondido Village one building at a time and we just happened to be in line for February 2008 renovation. But instead of just moving to another 2 bedroom apartment, we wanted to go to 3 bedroom for the reasons above stated. We worked long and hard with the Stanford Housing office to make this move possible, and in the end we got exactly what we wanted. We moved into another already renovated apartment in our same courtyard. And Stanford even provided movers for us since they wanted us to move out in order to continue their renovation project.

The sad and hard part about this whole situation started forming on Sunday evening, when Lydia spiked a fever of 103. something. She could not sleep that night and we had a hard time brining her fever down for the next couple of days. Well, those where the days we should have been actively packing. So when Tuesday morning rolled around, we were excited to start our moving process, but were a bit behind in our prep work. So with our sick girl moping around and Tyler getting frustrated for not getting enough attentions, we were attempting to pack and move our possessions. We did not realize how much stuff we really did have until we had to pack it. It motivated me to want to go through and chuck a good portion of it ( especially the portion that has been in boxes in our closet for the last 2 years. I honestly don't even know what' s in there.)
To add to this whole mayhem, it rained the entire time we were moving. So to put it in a few words- the move was lovely! Right! It really made me rethink the option of moving to Seattle this summer.

But the worst came when we finally transfered all of our belongings to our new place and did not have time to unpack fast enough to live a normal life. All of our floors were pilled with boxes and our stuff. There was no place to eat, or even sit. I don't even remember how we survived those few days when there was no place for the kids to spread out. And Lydia, of course, loved going through all of our boxes, finding things her parents have been hiding from her for years.

Well, the worst is past and we are somewhat settled, though our closets are still bursting at the seams with the stuff we need to throw away or give away. But that's an ongoing job for the next few weeks. We are just happy to have extra room. We finally and officially moved!