Notes From Our Nest

It’s been a long, but incredible week. I can’t believe that last week at this time I was driving into Chicago to meet the moving guys at our storage unit. Here’s a recap of last week:

Monday: We drove into Arlington and stayed with the fabulous Foster Family.

Tuesday: We closed on our new house! We immediately drove over our U-Haul and started unloading (well, Kabe did). This was another 96 degree day. Poor guy!

Wednesday: I drove downtown first thing in the morning to meet the moving crew from Midway Moving. We had a start time of 7:30am. They showed up at 8:15. Somehow we were charged for a 7:45 start, though. Ugh!! After a long morning of pointing and directing furniture, we wrapped up and I started unpacking the kitchen. My mom and Art arrived around 9:00 pm after their trip to Seattle and Vancouver. They went straight to work helping me wash dishes and unpack more of the kitchen. It was great!

Thursday: Mom and Art have a minivan, so we put it to use! We picked up the kitchen table and the GRILL today. They also washed cabinets, stemware, and dishes. Art moved a ton of boxes. They are my heroes! I can’t thank them enough for ending their vacation on a hard-working note. Hopefully they have recovered. I could use more help! Only kidding, Mom.

Friday: JAIME IS IN TOWN! Ok…I’m not complaining, but it took me 2.5 hours to drive to Midway to pick her up. Then, we drove another 2 hours to Kim’s house in Tinley Park for our girls’ weekend. We saw NKOTB on Friday! I was protesting because I felt a little silly being at a New Kids concert at the age of 29, but it was actually pretty entertaining. My only wish is that Jon would have sang. He’s so cute now! However, Joey Mac (that’s what they are calling him) did perform “Popsicle,” which was always my favorite song.

Saturday: Jaime and Kim came to see our house. And, Kim brought Baby Zach (He’s 7 months old already). I tested out some of the baby stuff we have with him. He seemed to like it all!!

Sunday: I can’t even remember what I did on Sunday, but we were going nonstop all day long. It involved something like 3 trips to Home Depot and a missed BBQ with our friends. Sorry, Sarah and Jereme!

Monday: I crashed.

Tuesday: I started painting ceilings and bathrooms. The weather was so perfect to have the windows open! Don’t worry, I discovered a low VOC paint at Lowe’s. Did you know that regular old Olympic Paint is lower in VOCs that other typical paints?

Whew! What a crazy week. I’m so glad we are in our new house so I can start doing all of these projects I’ve been thinking about since we bought the place at the end of April.

Peace,
M