Moving day, Part I (part II will be when we move into the new house!)

So yesterday (in this post yesterday refers to Thursday--that's just how long it takes me to write one post!) was a wee bit busy because, well,  we moved out of our current house, AND the foundation for the new house was poured.  Seems like the big stuff keeps happening all on the same day (like the day we broke ground AND made our selections), which is kind of stressful and exciting all at once. 

Anyway, yesterday started off perfectly fine.  The kids had a special breakfast of donuts, raspberries and milk.  Yum!

Then we got to work. We had most of our stuff ready for the movers, except we had one teeny, tiny problem.  The movers we'd reserved canceled on us 2 days before the move.  Oh, yes, you read that right--they canceled 2 days before the move. Ack! Eric scrambled around and found some movers online that he scheduled at the last minute.  However, we never really received confirmation from them so we were 50/50 on if they'd show up.  Not knowing what would happen, Eric and I loaded the moving truck we'd rented and tried to get as much on there as we could, thinking we'd take a load over before the movers (hopefully) came.

See how ready we were? Everything is waiting for those movers!

This took longer than expected, though, so we had to quick change plans and instead took over our 2 cars that we'd loaded up with our stuff so we'd be back in case the  movers showed up.  For the last couple of days, we've been bringing stuff over to the condo we're renting which helped the kids get comfortable with the new place.  Shout out here to Sue for letting us rent her condo--thanks so much!

Here's a view from the condo we're renting--nice!

Our current living room/family room/office/play room

After that, we had a quick lunch and had pretty much given up all hope of the movers coming (it was 1pm by this time). In fact, Eric and I were in the middle of deciding whether or not to put out a plea on Facebook for help when a couple of cars pulled up with the movers! Hallelujah!

They got right to work and moved all of our larger stuff, plus tons of our boxes in just 4 hours.  In the meantime, I had to run over to the condo to get the cable guy started and get Evan to a birthday party.  Luckily, my wonderful mom had taken Marea for the day so she wasn't underfoot.  Then it was back to the house to pack up more stuff in the cars and then get dinner.  At this point, I was utterly and completely exhausted and had a migraine that wouldn't go away no matter what.  Eric felt about the same.  But we kept going. More loading/unloading/packing/unpacking, etc. 

At 9pm we finally called it day.  My parents had put together the kids bunk beds (they're so excited to sleep in these!) so the little Siegers could go to sleep right away.

Eric and I still had to get our bed together, and once we did, we crashed.  Today the kids and I went back to the house to pack up some more odds and ends and to do a deep cleaning.  A huge thanks to my parents for fixing the aforementioned bunk beds (the top one had a saggy board underneath that wasn't safe), helping with the kids, and helping clean/unpack/setup over the last couple of days. Tomorrow, we still need to finish up cleaning/clearing out/mowing/etc but at least it's looking more like this at the house now.

  
Maybe because it's been 10 years since we moved, or maybe because it was so awful I blocked it out, but I don't remember moving being this stressful before.  To be honest, yesterday and today were rough.  At least I think I can see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel--for now anyway.  Gotta do this again in 2 months when the new house is done, but trying hard not to think about that now! Be back with the foundation update soon!