Dear readers, I apologize. Between all the craziness of week one in our new home, I\u2019ve not been able to sit down and share some updates with you all. And I realized last night that given part of Monday\u2019s post, some of you may be worried about C.<\/p>\n
I can happily report that she is back to normal, acting goofy, annoying us with her hyperactivity, and generally being herself. We never determined, with complete certainty, what caused her issues last week. We have a theory, though, after a visit to another doctor. It\u2019s nothing serious or on-going, but I won\u2019t share anything more than that about it here. The good news is that she seems to have put last weekend\u2019s suffering behind her.<\/p>\n
Beyond that, it\u2019s been a week of trying to get settled in. We love our new home. But we are also building up a list of minor annoyances, or questions of \u201cWhat were the builders thinking when they did that?\u201d For example, our only completely furnished gathering area is what we will eventually call the Girls Lounge on the second floor. We have a sectional, some chairs, and the TV in that room. However in the builder\u2019s plans for this room, there were several options, including one where the room doesn\u2019t exist and the space is open to the main family room below. Because of that, there is no duct work into the floor. Instead, the two central air vents are both in the ceiling. Combine that with being on the second floor, having west-facing windows, in a very insulated home, and this room is like 10 degrees warmer than any other room in the house. We have to run a couple fans and it is still almost too warm to hang out in. Hopefully it is this toasty in the winter, too.<\/p>\n
No cable\/internet yet. No idea when we will get it. Fuckers. I met a neighbor from down the block tonight and he said he has AT&T Fiber coming into their house. So I\u2019ll be calling them soon to beg them to do what I asked Comcast to do four weeks ago: come out and see if they can hook me into the line that is a block away. Not holding my breath.<\/p>\n
Honestly, it\u2019s been kind of refreshing to not be constantly connected. This is the time of year to do it. The Royals are terrible, so I hadn\u2019t been watching them anyway. I miss watching every World Cup game, but we can still see the games that are on Fox. We miss our HGTV and Food Network, the girls miss their Disney and Cartoon Network. L keeps telling me how bored she is. It doesn\u2019t help that it\u2019s been hot and humid lately, so don\u2019t want to play outside much. We can survive living like it\u2019s the early 90s. For awhile.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been putting together Ikea furniture for the girls\u2019 rooms. That\u2019s always a blast.<\/p>\n
It seems that the movers damaged both our washer and dryer in the transition. We had a technician out Wednesday. He got the dryer running; a connection had just come loose that prevented the heating element from firing. But the washer wouldn\u2019t repeat the issue I had with it while he was here. When he left, M threw a load in, and about 15 minutes into the cycle, it started making a terrible, grinding noise. I called back immediately but they couldn\u2019t get someone out again until Friday afternoon. We all really need to do laundry so I\u2019m really hoping they can get it figured out.<\/p>\n
I took the girls to see The Incredibles 2<\/em> Thursday. We all really liked it. L loved the first one and when the first trailers hit for 2<\/em> last winter, she was very excited at first. However about a month ago, she started telling me, \u201cI\u2019m worried it\u2019s not going to be very good. The second movies are never as good as the first.\u201d I loved that! A cynic already at age 9! But I also reminded her that her favorite Toy Story<\/em> movie was the second one, and The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> is the best Star Wars<\/em> movie. She was very pleased that The Incredibles 2<\/em> followed their leads and did not suck.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve still been making at least one trip a day to the old house. We can likely get everything that\u2019s left out this weekend. The buyers\u2019 inspection was Thursday. Knocking on wood, rubbing rabbits feet, lighting candles, etc. that there are no surprises and we can potentially move closing up by a week.<\/p>\n Closing on the lake house Monday went off without a hitch. That was another huge load of stress off of us. Seriously, what were we thinking doing all this at once?<\/p>\n We have a very busy weekend planned. Today we are watching one of my nephews part of the day. M is having her first school buddy over for a couple hours. Hopefully our washer gets fixed. M and C\u2019s buddies from the old neighborhood may spend the night. Saturday L is going on a nature hike with some school friends. We have a designer coming over to help us plot out what furniture and accessories to buy. And there will be a lot of unpacking, rearranging, and stacking of boxes for recycling.<\/p>\n If babysitting pauses allow, I\u2019ll do my best to get a playlist or video up later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear readers, I apologize. Between all the craziness of week one in our new home, I\u2019ve not been able to sit down and share some updates with you all. And I realized last night that given part of Monday\u2019s post, some of you may be worried about C. I can happily report that she is back to normal, acting goofy, annoying us with her hyperactivity, and generally being herself. We never determined, with complete certainty, what caused her issues last week. We have a theory, though, after a visit to another doctor. It\u2019s nothing serious or on-going, but I won\u2019t share anything more than that about it here. The good news is that she seems to have put last weekend\u2019s suffering behind her. Beyond that, it\u2019s been a week of trying to get settled in. We love our new home. But we are also building up a list of minor annoyances, or questions of \u201cWhat were the builders thinking when they did that?\u201d For example, our only completely furnished gathering area is what we will eventually call the Girls Lounge on the second floor. We have a sectional, some chairs, and the TV in that room. However in the builder\u2019s plans for this room, there were several options, including one where the room doesn\u2019t exist and the space is open to the main family room below. Because of that, there is no duct work into the floor. Instead, the two central air vents are both in the ceiling. Combine that with being on the second floor, having west-facing windows, in a very insulated home, and this room is like 10 degrees warmer than any other room in the house. We have to run a couple fans and it is still almost too warm to hang out in. Hopefully it is this toasty in the winter, too. No cable\/internet yet. No idea when we will get it. Fuckers. I met a neighbor from down the block tonight and he said he has AT&T Fiber coming into their house. So I\u2019ll be calling them soon to beg them to do what I asked Comcast to do four weeks ago: come out and see if they can hook me into the line that is a block away. Not holding my breath. Honestly, it\u2019s been kind of refreshing to not be constantly connected. This is the time of year to do it. The Royals are terrible, so I hadn\u2019t been watching them anyway. I miss watching every World Cup game, but we can still see the games that are on Fox. We miss our HGTV and Food Network, the girls miss their Disney and Cartoon Network. L keeps telling me how bored she is. It doesn\u2019t help that it\u2019s been hot and humid lately, so don\u2019t want to play outside much. We can survive living like it\u2019s the early 90s. For awhile. We\u2019ve been putting together Ikea furniture for the girls\u2019 rooms. That\u2019s always a blast. It seems that the movers damaged both our washer and dryer in the transition. We had a technician out Wednesday. He got the dryer running; a connection had just come loose that prevented the heating element from firing. But the washer wouldn\u2019t repeat the issue I had with it while he was here. When he left, M threw a load in, and about 15 minutes into the cycle, it started making a terrible, grinding noise. I called back immediately but they couldn\u2019t get someone out again until Friday afternoon. We all really need to do laundry so I\u2019m really hoping they can get it figured out. I took the girls to see The Incredibles 2 Thursday. We all really liked it. L loved the first one and when the first trailers hit for 2 last winter, she was very excited at first. However about a month ago, she started telling me, \u201cI\u2019m worried it\u2019s not going to be very good. The second movies are never as good as the first.\u201d I loved that! A cynic already at age 9! But I also reminded her that her favorite Toy Story movie was the second one, and The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. She was very pleased that The Incredibles 2 followed their leads and did not suck. We\u2019ve still been making at least one trip a day to the old house. We can likely get everything that\u2019s left out this weekend. The buyers\u2019 inspection was Thursday. Knocking on wood, rubbing rabbits feet, lighting candles, etc. that there are no surprises and we can potentially move closing up by a week. Closing on the lake house Monday went off without a hitch. That was another huge load of stress off of us. Seriously, what were we thinking doing all this at once? We have a very busy weekend planned. Today we are watching one of my nephews part of the day. M is having her first school buddy over for a couple hours. Hopefully our washer gets fixed. M and C\u2019s buddies from the old neighborhood may spend the night. Saturday L is going on a nature hike with some school friends. We have a designer coming over to help us plot out what furniture and accessories to buy. And there will be a lot of unpacking, rearranging, and stacking of boxes for recycling. If babysitting pauses allow, I\u2019ll do my best to get a playlist or video up later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,47,135,29,14],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-health","tag-house","tag-movies","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13387,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/13387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}