I asked my husband which he'd rather be doing on Saturday, unloading our 3rd and final load from the 17 foot Uhaul, or driving 12 hour days across the country, like our last move. He said unloading, but finally agreed we should hire movers again next time. Moving everything ourselves from a split level house to a two story house took about 15 hours total, and toward the end we just started piling stuff in the dining room, to save ourselves a trip up another flight of stairs.
Yesterday we played with the kitties and let them explore their new house (they've figured out how to do laps up and down the two staircases, so that's fun to listen to), got our desks set up in both our offices so we'd be ready to work this morning, and got our couch, coffee table and TV unpacked. Baby steps, until our muscles aren't so sore. After all, we've got the next 30 years to unpack!
Anyway, just thought I'd check in. With work this week, slowly unpacking, and just adjusting to our new house, I don't have many interesting projects to blog about, but I do have some recipes from Easter I've been meaning to share, which hopefully I'll have time to type up later this week.
For now, I'll leave you with a picture of my new view out my office window. I feel like I'm in a tree house, and hopefully before long I'll be spotting some deer while I work!
Hope everyone had a much more restful weekend than we did! And has anyone else moved more times than we have (8 times in 11 years)? I am so looking forward to never moving again if I can help it!
14 comments:
Congrats on making it through the move! I thought we could do our last move on our own, but in the ended decided to go with movers.
Congrats! Yes, we are definitely hiring movers the next time we move! I haven't moved around quite as much as you, but almost - 8 times in 13 years. So not fun!!
Way to go! I hate moving, and as much as we want to move back to the West Coast at some point, that's one aspect we aren't looking forward to!
Congrats!!!! We're moving in two weeks. DREAD.
Congrats!
Good luck with your move--I had no idea you guys were even moving! Hope it goes well for you, and you don't end up as sore as we still are.
Edit: sadness, just checked your blog and it's blocked :'(
congratulations! and i'm totally amazed that you guys moved yourselves--holy cow!
Too funny - what parallel universes we live in! Our house looks so similar with all the moving boxes. And your view from your office reminds me so much of mine from NC! Our moving experiences were nearly identical too - we did it ourselves, it took 3 trips, we swore we would hire someone next time and we were super sore from all the lifting and moving. Hahaha. Congrats on your move!
Holy cow, I had to add it all up and I have moved 11 times in 11 years. That actually kind of makes me want to cry. Since B and I have been together we have moved 5 times in 5 years. I cannot wait until we buy a place and won't be moving every year! Also congrats on doing it yourselves! We've done most of our moves that way, but a couple of times we've had guys at least help to load/unload the trucks. And they have been a godsend every time. Pretty sure I will be making that a requirement for our next move!
Congrats on surviving it! I'm so jealous of that view!
Congrats on the move! Can't wait to see if you do have any deer pop up
12 times since 2005! So that's 12 times in seven years. That includes my personal moves (every year in college and since graduating) and big moves with my family. And I'm moving home this weekend, just to move across the country at the end of next month.
I can't wait until I someday make enough to hire movers!
hooray for the move and that great view from your office.
Moving all that stuff is not easy! Yay for being done!
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