We started packing after the early May conference. Somehow it felt so right to put things in boxes than to see them in this place. We have not felt home in this space for all the many issues and extreme "landlord bully" -- a term we learnt from Residential Tenancy Agency.
There was a long weekend before the moving weekend. We worked hard on packing on Sunday morning so we could go to the farm in the afternoon in the good warm sunshine weather. B-u-t, when we finally got into the car to head out to sunshine (the kids even prepared food and water and got those all ready in the car), the car broke down! In the U.S., we always had full roadside insurance coverage since we got this car for all those situations and of course it never happened there. Hubby biked to get battery connector and worked all afternoon and early evening to change the connector. The car still didn't budge. I took the kids to the meadow so the older one can fly a handmade kite and the younger one can play around. They soon bumped into each other, the older one hurt her knee, and the younger one hurt his brow bone.
Later a friend came by and recommended a mechanic, who came on the last day of the long weekend to say it needed a new starter. The older one's knee continued to hurt. Because this is the first time we deal with the knee injury in a kid, and she complained about a lot of paint, I took her to the walk-in clinic. Because we weren't sure if she could walk, we asked a friend for a ride. The clinic was packed, and it took an hour's wait to hear the dr. say she'd be fine in 3-5 days and just take Advil for pain if she continued complaining. Since the dr. thought she'd be fine, we walked some way to catch a bus home.
The next day the mechanic phoned but didn't get connected to our magic jack. The car didn't get fixed until the 4th day of the incident.
Then finally it's moving weekend. The kids packed their scattered stuff. On Friday morning we drove the car loaded with storage less used stuff to the new place, got the keys and started painting the living room. The work went very slowly. I was so tired from the week that I only worked on the small sections. I also thought how tiring moving is and how much work we did for the last move but that didn't pay off since we couldn't stay 2 yrs as we originally planned. After we brought the kids over, we realized that the wall color peach puff looked pinkish at dayclose. We went to choose another kind of paint in the evening, which took a long time to pick. We eventually settled on Apricot Nectar. In the morning after the kids went to school, we painted over the pinkish color and Apricot Nectar goes really well with the wood floor and looks promising with our dark hardwood bookshelf -- we'll know tomorrow after it's moved. At 1pm we picked up the kids, and got them lunch from sushi place to eat at old place, and moved our closets content over to the new place. Hubby and I also unpacked some kitchen stuff. There are so many drawers in the new kitchen that I put labels on the drawers in order to remember what's where for everyone.
Tomorrow morning the movers are scheduled to come. Hubby and I are working hard to get everything packed and get everything semi-packed into our car.
There was a long weekend before the moving weekend. We worked hard on packing on Sunday morning so we could go to the farm in the afternoon in the good warm sunshine weather. B-u-t, when we finally got into the car to head out to sunshine (the kids even prepared food and water and got those all ready in the car), the car broke down! In the U.S., we always had full roadside insurance coverage since we got this car for all those situations and of course it never happened there. Hubby biked to get battery connector and worked all afternoon and early evening to change the connector. The car still didn't budge. I took the kids to the meadow so the older one can fly a handmade kite and the younger one can play around. They soon bumped into each other, the older one hurt her knee, and the younger one hurt his brow bone.
Later a friend came by and recommended a mechanic, who came on the last day of the long weekend to say it needed a new starter. The older one's knee continued to hurt. Because this is the first time we deal with the knee injury in a kid, and she complained about a lot of paint, I took her to the walk-in clinic. Because we weren't sure if she could walk, we asked a friend for a ride. The clinic was packed, and it took an hour's wait to hear the dr. say she'd be fine in 3-5 days and just take Advil for pain if she continued complaining. Since the dr. thought she'd be fine, we walked some way to catch a bus home.
The next day the mechanic phoned but didn't get connected to our magic jack. The car didn't get fixed until the 4th day of the incident.
Then finally it's moving weekend. The kids packed their scattered stuff. On Friday morning we drove the car loaded with storage less used stuff to the new place, got the keys and started painting the living room. The work went very slowly. I was so tired from the week that I only worked on the small sections. I also thought how tiring moving is and how much work we did for the last move but that didn't pay off since we couldn't stay 2 yrs as we originally planned. After we brought the kids over, we realized that the wall color peach puff looked pinkish at dayclose. We went to choose another kind of paint in the evening, which took a long time to pick. We eventually settled on Apricot Nectar. In the morning after the kids went to school, we painted over the pinkish color and Apricot Nectar goes really well with the wood floor and looks promising with our dark hardwood bookshelf -- we'll know tomorrow after it's moved. At 1pm we picked up the kids, and got them lunch from sushi place to eat at old place, and moved our closets content over to the new place. Hubby and I also unpacked some kitchen stuff. There are so many drawers in the new kitchen that I put labels on the drawers in order to remember what's where for everyone.
Tomorrow morning the movers are scheduled to come. Hubby and I are working hard to get everything packed and get everything semi-packed into our car.
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