Professional Mover

Growing up my housing situation was very stable.  I moved twice during my childhood: once at 2 and once at 16.

Since going to college the story is different.

During my 4 years at UGA I lived:

426 Church

218 Church

421 Church

203 Stone Mill Run (2 WHOLE years, the most stable my living situation has been since leaving home)

After graduation, the story is very similar

Aspen Dr, Clarksville, TN

Inver Lane, Clarksville, TN

Anthony Rd, Augusta, GA

Jasper Ct, Ft Gordon, GA

Cedar Shoals, Athens, GA

Golden Camp Rd, Augusta GA 

And now we're finally moving back to post at Ft Gordon to yet ANOTHER address

If you lost count that's 7 houses since graduation in 2007 and 11 dwellings since leaving for college in 2003.  My family and I have done every single one of these moves our selves.  We don't need no stinkin' movers.  This list doesn't even reflect the times I moved home each summer during school when the dorms closed.

All in all, I have packed up and MOVED my stuff 13 times in 7 years, the longest time between moves being from August 2005-May 2007. 

Well, at least if this social work thing falls through I could be a professional mover

The End of an Era

Lily's apartment box is not coming to Augusta with us.  She got the box for her first birthday.  She's done some interior decorating (see below), hide and seek, storage, easter egg hunting, and most recently mountain climbing with her box apartment.

Sadly, we will not have the space in our new house (not that we did in this house) for the box apartment.

I know there will be other boxes, but this was Lily's first box love.  It will not be forgotten *sniffle*

You Know You Might Be a Social Worker if...

you jokingly tell your daughter you're going to call DFCS on her for mistreating her baby doll


in other Lily news, last night she had a dream about her paci.  When i went to give her a kiss before I went to be she practically screamed "PACI" at me while still fast asleep.

This morning I was eating cookies for breakfast - yet another bad Meghan rabbit - and I tell Lily that I'll give her one cookie.  To which she responds, "two cookie"

I also think it's time to start introducing big girl panties as Lily was caught trying to put on a pair of my big girl panties this morning.  I have other reasons based in shame but I'll expend on that in a later post.

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Becky's auditioning for Glee. They are having a nation wise casting and she needs your votes.

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Click the link, sign up/log in on myspace. Search for Becky Henry.

Once you listen, give her a gold star.

Hoe cool would it be for someone you know to be on Glee. Yes, Meghan, I'm talking to you :)

Ready

so we got home from our day and Lily started asking me for everything under the sun.  Juice?  Cookie?  Side? (outside)

After I said no to all of the above (except going outside) Lily finds her purse, slings it over her shoulder and goes to the door to try to open it.  Here is the conversation that followed:

"I ready go"

"you're ready to go?"

"des" *nods*

"okay, where do you want to go?  the park?"

"park"

so we went to the park :)

tents

any suggestions for buying a tent.  we're going to the lake this weekend it will will cost about as much to buy our own tent as to rent and share a camper.

it doesn't need to be huge but it would be nice not to have to buy another tern when we have another kid or 2.

any brands you would recommend?  anything to look out for?  anything to avoid?

thanks for the input!

WOOHOO

we got a house on post! we move in on April 29 which is cutting is SO close since we have my house in Athens until April 30. Either way, we're set!

It's an older house (like the one we had on post before I moved to Athens) but it's not in Ghetto Terrace so that's all that really matters!

We still have to finish out the lease on the other house in Augusta but it's only a month so it won't hurt too much financially. At least we'll have peace of mind because Elbert or someone else that we know and trust will be patrolling the area to make sure we're safe.

We will have THREE houses for 1 day. I consider our selves lucky because there are so many families that can't say they have 1 house on April 30.

BLIZZARDS

DQ has buy 1 get one for 25 cents blizzards now through April 25.

That is all

This is why I don't ride the bus...

Holy cow, I got on this bus 45 minutes ago I all we've done is drive around in mini circles that eventually take me further from my car and a bathroom.

I guess there's construction going on but this route is so long. Not to mention terrifying. The detour is taking us down roads vehicles the size of the old truck were not meant for. Every turn I swear I hear the bus scarping all the cars in it's path.

I've seen the freshman dorms 3 times now and the arch twice. The bus driver has gotten on and off shift since I've been on the bus...I know East West goes to the east side of town, it just hasn't yet...

packing and the house

So I'm packing packing packing.  The big move is on Saturday.  I basically get to keep an air mattress, 2 lawn chairs, a basket of toys, and a laptop... no joke

As most of you probably know, our house in Augusta was broken into 2 weeks ago.  They took a TON of stuff including our shotgun and the spare jeep and house key.

We've been working on getting a house on post like before I came to Athens but the list is a little long and we're getting anxious about having a safe place to live once Lily and I get back to Augusta.

Well in an added complexity/scary event, Elbert went to the house the turn off the lights after being on all night and found a strange man snooping around in the back yard.  Long story short, he said he was looking for odd jobs and when he knocked on the front door no one answered.  Now when I knock on someone's front door and they don't answer, I don't go snooping around in their back yard unless I know the people and they're expecting me.

Given his course of action was different from others who find themselves in similar situations, I highly doubt he was looking for work.  We're looking into a storage unit on post to get the rest of our stuff out of the house and for a place to put everything from the house in Athens.

I just can't wait to be rid of this crappy house

Trying something new

Alright, here we go with this blogging thing. This is probably the 3rd time I've started a blog but hopefully I'll be more diligent with this one. I was also pretty bad about sending monthly updates about Lily (I think the last one was when she was 5 mo?) so I'm thinking that more regular updates will occur if I'm not waiting for an entire month to post something.  My monthly emails also got pretty long so this will help give you bite-sized and candid chunks of our lives.

I've ripped a lot off from Meghan and will probably continue doing so until I get the hang on this.  Hope you don't mind :)

This blog will help keep family and friends updated on our lives despite the distance.

I'll do my best to notify people of blog updates in the beginning but once we get the hang of it, you'll be on your own.

Let me know if there's anything you want to see on here.  ENJOY!