Goodbye

This week has been full chaos at its best. On Sunday, we were still packing up stuff.

This was our living and dining room on Sunday. I love Justin's fake enthusiasm. Monday I spent cleaning and Thursday were goodbyes.

Both kids have had a very difficult week. Spencer is very confused and doesn't understand this transition period. Madi is sharing a room and also has to deal with the fact that she is switching schools. We thought that if we took the kids to the completely empty house and said goodbye, it would help them understand and have some closure.

Spencer walked into about three rooms and kept saying goodbye. Madi took more time, looking into each room. She spent the most time in her room. We got in the car and Spencer said, "goodbye house, lub you."

We spent 8 years in this house. This was the house that Spencer came home from the hospital to. Many happy memories.
On Friday, we closed on the house. The house now belongs to a new family. A very sweet couple with four kids who are so excited to "move up" to a larger house. I'm glad that someone will take good care of the house.

Sniff, sniff. :(

Noble Peace Prize

Today was cleaning day for the house. We close on Friday and most of the items were out of the house. We spent Sat and Sunday moving and packing. Our friend Tony helped Justin move the big items and get "Bessie" moved. Bessie is our refrigerator that has moved with us from Iowa. She is big and beautiful, but hard to handle. We definitely couldn't have gotten that done without help.
Sunday was boxing items and making piles of what goes with us to our temp house and what goes into the POD. The POD on the other hand was getting full (our 2nd one), so we were making our "take with us" pile bigger than expected.
I took yesterday off to start cleaning the house. I started at 10:30am and finished at 4:45pm (I did get an hour lunch break though). My feet ache, my back is sore, but it is done. My two best friends helped me:
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

and

my Dyson vacuum.

From one mama to whoever is reading this (I am assuming you are all mamas), these items made my job much easier. I deeply and truly think that whoever invented these items should be nominated for the Noble Peace Prize.
Really
Seriously
I am not kidding.

The Box to the Left

Sing it with me,
To the left,
to the left,
everything you own,
to the box to the left.

That is the way I feel about my life right now. Everything we own is getting boxed up and stored for the next two months while we wait for the new house to be completed.

The first POD was delivered on Friday morning and Justin and I got up on Saturday morning and began to load. If you haven't noticed we have had about a month of triple digit temperatures here in Oklahoma. It was 104 degrees or so on Saturday. HOT, HOT, HOT. We started early and loaded, loaded, loaded. It felt like 130 degrees in the POD.
My mom drove down from Iowa to help with the kiddos while we worked. Spencer "helped" as well.

By 11am, we stopped. It was just too hot. I snapped this picture of Justin after he finished locking up the POD.

We decided to work INSIDE in the A/C to box more items up. My mom came to the rescue again and helped package all our large pictures with mountains of bubble wrap. We all worked hard.

While unpacking our closet, we found a box of tapes and VHS movies. Now, let's face it, we all have one of those boxes that you never really unpack from when you moved in. This was that box exactly. Tapes of Bell Biv DeVoe, Chicago, The Beastie Boys and MORE. Ha, that was funny to open up the box and find many memories. The lid went right back on and outside. Hehehehe

My mom hadn't seen the new house yet, so we headed to the new house on Sunday morning. The brick is all complete. Check out the mailbox!! The drywall is all up, but not mudded yet. It is really coming along nicely. I secretly (ok, not so secretly) wish it was COMPLETE and ready to move into.

It has been a very busy, exhausting and HOT weekend. We are treating ourselves to a 10:30pm movie of Harry Potter.

Do They Make Them

A lock for the refrigerator, that is.

Yes, you notice he has parked the chair in front of the refrigerator.

7 Day

As of today, 21 straight days of 100+ degree weather. According to the above, we will hit 30+ straight days by the end of the week. Yesterday was 110 degrees.
I don't like the heat.
I don't like the heat at all.
I don't like packing in the heat.

When is the first freeze?

My Other Two

This is Harley. He is the coolest dog I've ever seen. He is a mix between a bassett hound and a wire hair dauschaund. We adopted him from a local shelter. Why and how he ended up in a shelter is beyond my imagination. He is sweet, loyal, intelligent and very well behaved. He is lazy, but one of the best dogs I have ever owned.

This is Moxie. She is a Shih Tzu and was also adopted from a local shelter. I KNOW how and why she ended up there. She is not real smart, sassy, acts like a diva, acts like a bully and everything has to be on HER terms.

With all the stress, I like that each of them will sit or lay next to me. They don't ask for much, just a pat on the head or a belly rub. Little things that make a big difference. They know they are loved.

The Marquee

Nothing else to be said about this.