Get Out!

We are getting some major work on the house done and had to spend our weekend packing up the three biggest rooms in our home - the living room, dining room and (ugh) kitchen). We also had to get ourselves packed and out of the house with the 3 kids, dogs and cat. It was a crazy weekend that started Friday and finished midnight last night. My folks were not easily available, Joe's dad was on the West Coast, his mom out due to injury so we were kinda on our own. Luckily Stewart helped both mornings and when I talked to Jay and Megan on Saturday I was pityful enough to warrant help all day yesterday (they are also house sitting for us). Dan dropped by on the way home from the cabin and took Alex to "the park" which turned into several hours out with Ryan and Leanne (HUGE help). I don't know what we would have done without these guys this weekend. This was very hard.

Dan has loaned us his home while the work is being done. It was clean, he made all sorts of storage space... I just can't thank him enough for this.

Night number one was rough. No one got in bed until 9:10 and Alex didn't fall asleep until 10:30. I had walked him through were "mommy and daddy" were sleeping so he'd know how to find us when he woke up. Several minutes after going to bed he was at the top of the stairs pretty annoyed that we were not in there when he looked. I forgot to explain that we were not going to bed there and then. An hour later, Alex fell out of bed. Then Sarah woke up but took her pacifier and went right back to sleep. Then Samantha woke at 3:30 and got everyone up. It was after 4:30 before we had them all settled. 6:50, we were all up again.

Hopefully night number two goes better. If not we'll re-think the sleeping arrangements.