Settling In
We have been living in our new apartment for a week now and I feel like we have made some great progress towards settling in by getting all the boxes unpacked. There are still things in the kitchen that I want to move around and put in better spots, but at least we don't have partially unpacked boxes hanging around the apartment. We were expecting Chris to be at work this week, but his EMT license didn't come in until just this last Friday so he will now start tomorrow, which he is very excited for.
Christmas
After emptying boxes and getting our normal decorations up, I set up our Christmas Tree and a few decorations to make it feel more like the holidays in our new home. Chris commented that it started feeling like our place when I put our pictures and decorations on the walls, and I agree! Seeing the things that we had in our home in Rexburg up on the walls of this home made it all real and ours. We moved in just in time to enjoy the Christmas parties our new ward planned and have felt very welcomed so far by our neighbors and ward members. We were even given a fruit basket that was meant for the previous tenants! Apparently they didn't tell everyone they were moving and there have been many people surprised that they have a new family in the ward.
Claire
Claire has been enjoying the freedom of roaming the whole house instead of being locked downstairs like she was in before. She gets to jump on the couch, play with the books on her bookshelf, bring toys our to be stepped on by mom, and isn't barred from anywhere except the desk which is our tiny office. As long as we aren't sitting at the desk she doesn't seem too curious about that area anyway, but that might change when she is finally bored of everywhere else. Her sleeping went pretty well the last few days even though earlier in the week we learned that she can somehow crawl under her bed. One minor mishap of falling out of the bed happened as well but now we have totes under the bed and padding to prevent her from falling again. She has gotten used to being put in her room with her milk and blanket, and hasn't cried about it for the past few days...knock on wood...
Memories
I have had the desire in the past to send out Christmas cards because it would be really fun to share the season with friends and family, but never went through with it. This year, despite all that is going on with moving, I am going to actually send them out! I found the cutest idea that will now become a tradition every year with our kids to show how they grow that includes being messy with paints. We made some MistleTOES out of Claire's feet, had our pictures taken in the cold, and whipped up a cute card to send out. I'll be keeping the original feet print for some kind of compilation later in life, but we are putting the full sized copies on the cards with our pictures and update. I think they turned out pretty cute!
Reading
With all that has been going on, I've still found time to read my scriptures in the quite moments when Claire is sleeping and Chris is busy. I've even been fortunate enough to stay ahead of schedule and will possibly finish before my estimated time! Not that it's a race, I just always have been an over achiever and apparently have too much time on my hands.
We have been living in our new apartment for a week now and I feel like we have made some great progress towards settling in by getting all the boxes unpacked. There are still things in the kitchen that I want to move around and put in better spots, but at least we don't have partially unpacked boxes hanging around the apartment. We were expecting Chris to be at work this week, but his EMT license didn't come in until just this last Friday so he will now start tomorrow, which he is very excited for.
Claire has been enjoying the freedom of roaming the whole house instead of being locked downstairs like she was in before. She gets to jump on the couch, play with the books on her bookshelf, bring toys our to be stepped on by mom, and isn't barred from anywhere except the desk which is our tiny office. As long as we aren't sitting at the desk she doesn't seem too curious about that area anyway, but that might change when she is finally bored of everywhere else. Her sleeping went pretty well the last few days even though earlier in the week we learned that she can somehow crawl under her bed. One minor mishap of falling out of the bed happened as well but now we have totes under the bed and padding to prevent her from falling again. She has gotten used to being put in her room with her milk and blanket, and hasn't cried about it for the past few days...knock on wood...
I have had the desire in the past to send out Christmas cards because it would be really fun to share the season with friends and family, but never went through with it. This year, despite all that is going on with moving, I am going to actually send them out! I found the cutest idea that will now become a tradition every year with our kids to show how they grow that includes being messy with paints. We made some MistleTOES out of Claire's feet, had our pictures taken in the cold, and whipped up a cute card to send out. I'll be keeping the original feet print for some kind of compilation later in life, but we are putting the full sized copies on the cards with our pictures and update. I think they turned out pretty cute!
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