Howdy, folks. It's been awhile, hasn't it? That's okay, this way I have lot of updates for you. Well, kind of.
I am going to make this quick and painless, which will hopefully make me feel all caught up and warm and fuzzy so that I will hopefully stop associating my blog with guilt pangs :)
It's a classic Keri look.
Then, there is Grant. He is my smallest child yet. Braden weighed about 5 pounds more than him at this age and was huge! Grant is 50th percentile or lower on everything, which explains why he is moving so much faster than Braden...less chub to haul around :)
And Braden is my imaginative and very curious child. To illustrate, tonight we went for a walk and he found a baby pinecone. When we got home he made a bed for his baby pinecone out of blue construction paper and while I was rocking Grant to sleep he was inquiring about the dietary habits of pinecones. He asks me at every meal where everything we are eating grows and frequently walks around the house asking where everything in our house is made or "grows". He likes to cut and color and build things. He likes saying our realtor's name and talking about what "Bill" does. He is also very concerned about how we are going to move everything in the house into the yellow moving truck and likes to go over the list of what we will take to make sure his bed is on the list. I am doing my best to field these questions and reassure him. Overall the kids are excited to move and are lots of fun.
Since Halloween, we have:
- celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas, Meredith's 30th birthday, and Valentine's Day (please use your imagination here in place of individual blog posts)
- contemplated moving to 12 different states and settled on none of them yet :)
- gotten our house ready to sell (think paint touch-ups, basement wall painting, dejunking, and lots of magic-erasering)
- listed our house with a real estate agent
- had 2 showings
- accepted an offer after 6 days on the market
- continued to contemplate moving to the 12 aforementioned states plus a few others
- visited craigslist daily
- hunted for short-term housing since we have to move out by April 12th
And so far, no trabajo y no casa (free translation: no job and no house). Which leads me to my to-do list for this upcoming week:
- Research storage facilities and the cheapest hotel we could live in that doesn't have bed bugs
- Hope the last hope we have for a short-term apartment doesn't fall through
- Appear calm and collected despite inner panic
- Think about packing? Then postpone.
- Sew a cute apron
- Visit craigslist hourly instead of daily
- Refrain from asking my husband where we should drive the moving truck to (sorry, these things are just nice to know for people like me)
So, yeah. House is sold and waiting to close, but we are jobless and homeless for now. But we're working on those and hopeful. And if all else fails, we can always go camping all summer and get fast food jobs, right?
The children are doing well. I took Keri recently to get her hair cut and here is the face she made the whole time:
It's a classic Keri look.
Then, there is Grant. He is my smallest child yet. Braden weighed about 5 pounds more than him at this age and was huge! Grant is 50th percentile or lower on everything, which explains why he is moving so much faster than Braden...less chub to haul around :)
He is crawling, diving off hardwood staircases, standing up on everything, and eating every crumb and piece of trash in sight. He also likes to declare, "GA!" repeatedly. It's kind of fun having a conversation with him using only these two letters. He thinks it's hilarious.
And Braden is my imaginative and very curious child. To illustrate, tonight we went for a walk and he found a baby pinecone. When we got home he made a bed for his baby pinecone out of blue construction paper and while I was rocking Grant to sleep he was inquiring about the dietary habits of pinecones. He asks me at every meal where everything we are eating grows and frequently walks around the house asking where everything in our house is made or "grows". He likes to cut and color and build things. He likes saying our realtor's name and talking about what "Bill" does. He is also very concerned about how we are going to move everything in the house into the yellow moving truck and likes to go over the list of what we will take to make sure his bed is on the list. I am doing my best to field these questions and reassure him. Overall the kids are excited to move and are lots of fun.
Well, I hope that gives you an idea of the glamorous Draper life we lead. And by way of survey, if any of you happen to have a serious love for your particular state, please leave a comment stating why you love it and perhaps we will consider moving there :)
3 comments:
CALIFORNIA!!! Or Nevada, Washington, or Oregon so you don't have to go through the h-e-double-hockey-sticks of taking WREBS. :)
Please move to FL. We have a great LDS dentist---you could work with him :). Then we'd be one step closer to having all our friends in one place.
Oh Mer you are a trooper! I hope hope hope everything gets worked out soon. We have lived a lot of places, and if we had our way we would go back to Denver. In fact after this year that's where we're REALLY hoping to go. We loved the clean air, outdoor activities, good schools, great people. I also LOVED Boise and think it is a wonderful place that gets a bad reputation sometimes. I really don't think I could say enough great things about it. Smaller town feel, great schools, cheaper living expenses, so much to do with kids, great outdoor trails, close to the mountains for skiing, hiking, camping, etc. VERY little traffic, all the shopping you need, and just great people. I don't think I'd recommend Connecticut so far. At least not the part we live in. We're too close to New York City so the vast majority of people are in too much of a rush to actually be polite (that's saying it nicely). I have had multiple people recognize that I'm not from here because I'm still nice! Our ward here is maybe the best ward we've ever been in, though! Maybe I'll change my tune after living here longer than a month. We'll see. I did love NH and I think I'd be plenty happy living there also. That probably doesn't help at all, but hopefully you're able to work things out. I'm sure this uncertainty is terrible. I went through a lesser degree of this a couple months ago and just about went nuts. Let me know if I can help at all!
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