Day 184

Spent most of the day with all of my family. :( It has been a busy, hard couple of weeks; moving, Myrta, Aunt Verona. I think I need a long vacation. I wonder if the house elves will work on getting my house organized if I go away for a couple of days.

Day 183

Well, today is a busy day... but not much to do with the house. I brought over another load of things from Hickman. Then I packed up what we would need to take to my parents' house. A sad trip home for my Aunt Verona's funeral tomorrow.

Day 182

My work has continued, the search for clothes... I have found enough of what we need to get by until I can go through a lot more of the boxes. I have also been working on the windows again today. I am getting close to having all of the windows on second floor covered with plastic. Then I will move on to one of the other floors. Mostly we will be living on 2nd floor so this is the most important area. But I do want to seal in as much heat as I can, even from the other two floors. I also started getting out some of our books and putting them on the shelves.

Jonathan was working on getting the washer and dryer hooked up. He has the power run and working for both of them. And the drain is in place. He also has the pex tubing hooked up in the basement and ready to be hooked up to the washer.


Here are the girls and Merlin in their mess of a room. This is something I want to work on tomorrow... getting their clothes and things in dressers instead of in bags and boxes on the floor.


Jonathan's and my room / my plastic cutting station. :) You can see my roll of plastic on the floor.


Zeb reading a book that I just put up on the shelf. This is going to be our dining/living/library for a bit. Hopefully I will get rid of the piles on the floor soon.

Day 181

The kids and I headed over to Hickman, to try and pack up some more stuff and bring it over. We brought along all of the boxes that we had already emptied and filled them up again. Some of the main things we were looking for were, clothes, the other TV and stuff to get the internet up and running.

After Jonathan got home he got our central server running and the internet up. Yay!

We have been using that wood stove. All of the plastic work I have been doing seems to be helping with the heat loss.



Here is our stove, keeping us warm. Merlin's new favorite place to be is right in front of the stove soaking up some heat. He has been having an interesting time exploring our new house.

Day 180

Today we went back to Hickman to get some more stuff. This was the first time I had been back since the first trip over to Beatrice yesterday morning. So I really didn't know how much of our stuff was still in the old house. All I can say is WOW do we have a lot of stuff or what. There is still so much for us to move over.

I continued my work of putting plastic over the windows today. We also continued to set things up and see what we could find. We are having a bit of trouble finding the clothing that we need. This has been one of my main missions.... making sure everyone has socks, underwear and warm clothes.


Here is our mirror up in our bathroom. And look there are our toothbrushes, I guess we did move over. :D

Day 179

Moving Day: part one



We woke up the some of the fluffy white stuff. Boy were all of the kids excited. Us grown-ups, not so much. But we were glad that we didn't get as much as they had said was possible. Here we are filling the van, Dad's truck and our trailer full of stuff. It was a long tiring day of moving. And then it ended on a sad note, Dad got a phone call telling us that Aunt Verona had died.

After my family headed home, Jonathan, the kids and I got our beds ready for our first real night in the new house. We had the wood stove going, and it was still cold in here. It took quite a while to get things heated up. And then there are lots of places that leak. We started covering the windows with plastic and blankets.

Day 178

Mom, Dad, Philip, Andrea and the kids (theirs and ours) were coming down. We are planning on taking over as much of our big furniture as we can. When Mom and Dad got here we loaded up their truck (I already had the van full), and we drove over to the new house to unload.

When we got back to Hickman, Philip and Andrea had gotten there, bringing my children. After taking them over to Mom's on Monday, I was really glad to get them back. Now it is time for hugs and snuggles. Then one big sleepover to get ready for Moving Day Part One.