We have been in our new house for over 4 weeks now.  We are totally unpacked.

Well totally unpacked except for the junk drawer box.  It’s FULL of junk.  Shocking I know.  And we are TOTALLY unpacked except for the boxes in the garage.  We have been extra productive.

Everyone knows how much moving sucks and I don’t plan to do it again for a long time.  Adam and I realized how very very out of shape we are when at the end of each day we felt like we were 99 years old and falling apart.  In the past couple months we have ingested more Aleve than people in their twenties should.

Oh BUT WAIT  my husband is no longer in his twenties!  He turned 30 on the 31st of August!  I just want to point out that I am still 28 for the next 2 1/2 months and then I get to be in my twenties for an ENTIRE YEAR after that.  My husband is robbing the cradle isn’t he?  Scandalous!

Since we moved in I have noticed a lot of things.  We have A LOT of stuff and crap.   As we were unpacking I had a rule that if it didn’t have a place it wasn’t allowed to stay.  We now have a pile of stuff and crap in the garage that we are going to sell in a garage sale.

Which by the way would imply that we actually have a garage!  Which we do!  And that is extra extra exciting to us because a garage was one of the biggest things on our priority list when we were house hunting.

And speaking of house hunting…(how’d you like THAT segue?) if you know me at all you know that I am obsessed with anything to do with looking at houses. I might have mentioned  before that one of my favorite shows is House Hunters on HGTV.  The previous owners of the house we bought are going to be on that show!  Which means that our new house is going to be on House Hunters!!

Of course it will only be at the beginning of the show and we will get to hear about all of the reasons the people wanted to move.  But I don’t care!  We love our new house and I think it’s totally cool that it is going to be on TV!  Even if it is the reject house.  So be on the lookout on HGTV sometime in October or November for a cute family with twin girls and a boy from TN.

Ok enough gushing about the house hunters thing.

Addison started a new school for 3rd grade a couple weeks before the actual move.  She didn’t want me to take her picture the first day of school.  I am apparently  the meanest mom EVER and I totally made her cry and insisted upon taking pictures of her even though she couldn’t pull herself together.

It was a disaster.  Here’s proof.

We actually did hug and kiss and she was able to take one last first day picture under the dogwood tree in the front yard.

Now theeeeere is the Addison we all know and love!

She has done really awesome socially.  She has made  lots of new friends and is even lucky enough to have another 3rd grade girl from her school as a neighbor.  What more could we ask?  They have hit it off and have been spending copious amounts of time riding bikes and doing other things 3rd grade girls do.  Like for example talk in hushed voices about a cute boy who rides a dirtbike near our house.  Um yeah totally NOT ready for the whole boy crazy thing.  NOT READY AT ALL.

Academically speaking it’s been a big change.  I know 3rd grade is a tough year but I also think Addison previous school might have been a little easier than the new one.  I am thankful she is in a tougher school now because she is getting a better education but she is  having to work really hard not to get behind.  We are studying hard and her grades are looking great.

I know she will be fine because we work with her constantly. But  sometimes I feel like I am homeschooling her and let me just tell you I am NOT a teacher.

I didn’t miss my calling there.

However I have been making flashcards, practice tests and study sheets each week and it seems to be paying off.  She is becoming more confident and I am getting into the swing of things better every week.

Alivia is doing awesome as well.  She never really missed a beat and has adjusted very well to the change in surroundings.  She is cute as EVER and she toddles around the house playing in her new playroom and following Addison and her friend Anna around.

She is into everything and I definitely get worried if she gets too quiet because she is more than likely eating baby powder or drawing all over her body with a pen.  Btw those things actually happened.

Other times when she is quiet I will find her in her room in front of her bookshelf…just reading a book.

Whew! that is always a relief.  I then say a silent thank you to God that she is not flushing washcloths down the toilet.

I am such an attentive mother.

All in all I think this has been a great move for us.  The neighborhood is fabulous and I have been taking full advantage of the nice wide streets by putting plenty of mileage on my jogging stroller.  Alivia, Max and I have a new morning routine of walking/jogging/me and Max both panting unattractively because well he is a dog and they pant and me because I am so very out of shape.

We have all been enjoying it and even though I haven’t lost any weight yet I feel better and I actually want to go do it every day. I am just hoping that one of these days I am going to look down and my fat belly is going to be gone and my double chin will have reverted itself back up into my first chin.  Hopefully sooner rather than later because I have a new walk in closet all to myself that I need to fill up with smaller cuter clothing.

I even took Addison with me on a run one Saturday when Adam was out of town.  She was all gung ho and smiles before we left…

and about 15 minutes in my goodness gracious you would have thought I was putting her through some sort of torture.  She refused to actually run with me and I would get way far ahead of her and then have to stop and wait for her to catch up.  All while listening to her whine about how tired she was and how much her legs and stomach hurt.

I mean HELLO she is 8 and I am 28!  Keep up girl!  Next time I am going to let her ride her bike so maybe we can actually enjoy each other’s presence.

I realize this has been one heck of a long post so I’ll wrap it up there and hopefully I can manage to write again before another month passes.

I’m not making any promises though because I will probably be too busy scraping dried yogurt off of the furniture or trying to figure out how to get permanent marker off of some important surface.

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