Packing AND Packing
Well pretty much all I have been doing lately is packing. Do you realize how much I hate the packing part? I actually LOVE the unpacking but the packing is really not one of the things on my "favorite things to do" list!
You see, when I pack my house up I feel like I need to have everything totally clean as I put them in the box. This means I either need to wipe them down with hot water and Lysol or I need a duster with Pledge on it. Needless to say this is a very time consuming process, but in order for me to feel like I am getting a "fresh start" in the new house I have to do this or I am absolutely crazed by it. Even worse if I pack a box and tape it shut and put it in the pile with the other boxes and then minutes or even days down the line I realize I left out a piece or part (typically with the kids toys or games) I search forever trying to find the exact box to put it in. Drives me crazy! So, I hate packing!
I have also been dreading the packing for the trip, but am going to have to start here soon since we leave in 2 days. The part of packing for trips that I hate is the laundry! Oh, what a pain. I want to have everything clean and put away before I start the packing process. That way I can pack faster and I am not frustrated when I need something and can't find it. Plus I want everything put away and perfect when we get home because you have no idea how much dirty laundry we can accumulate when gone for days on end. That also means a day full of doing laundry and swearing under my breath when someone puts an article of clothing on that I wanted to have with us on the trip. Drives me crazy! So, I hate packing!
OR maybe, just maybe (hate to admit this) it may just be the way I pack that DRIVES ME CRAZY?!?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Who's The Fairest Of Them All?
Loni has finally reached a whole 2 Lbs. It has taken her about a year but she finally succeeded although it is not as if she was lacking power in our household.
Loni is Princess Mihya's dog and is a teacup chihuahua. Although Josh and I had always had Great Danes Mihya desperately loved small pets. She begged us for every creepy crawly thing that she saw and knowing her personality we just kept saying "you can have one when you have your own house" and the hysterical thing about it, is that she would get all excited planning what pet she would get the day she closed on her first home. Worked until...Kaidon brought home a hamster. I hated that thing I am confident it was out to get me! It's name was Teddy and Teddy was a little Houdini! Yes, I duct taped his stupid cage and yet he'd still escape and always ended up at my feet! I'd get up in the middle of the night to turn someones light off for the umpteenth time and who would crawl across my feet? Yep that psychotic monster, Teddy. Kaidon wouldn't even pick the thing up so I found myself having to ask our neighbor to come hold it while I could clean the cage. When it got out at 2 am I'd sit up on watch until I could call the neighbor boy to put it back in it's cage. We had a HATE HATE HATE relationship that Teddy and I...until...one day Mihya came down holding Teddy and loving all over him/her/it. Yes, she fell in love with that thing and carried it everywhere with her. Then Teddy wasn't so bad to me, I could clean it's cage, had an in house search and rescuer, and I even got to stop feeding the thing because Mihya was a great caregiver. It really surprised us all! Mihya is drama and girly through and through so I didn't think she would ever touch a creepy crawly thing. Well, (there's always drama in a love story) when we were moving into this house from our last house we had a full load going over and the last thing in the house was Teddy. I told Mihya we'd come back for Teddy but that it wasn't safe to have him/her/it crammed into the car it could get hurt (really I was thinking "what if that thing gets out and is crawling all over the car while I am driving?"). She agreed and once we unloaded the car we all got preoccupied with dinner and bedtime. At about 10 p.m. Mihya remembered Teddy and wanted to go right then to get it. I talked her out of it and told her "I PROMISE (very bad key word here. Mommy lesson I can pass on to you all "don't ever promise something you can't control")Teddy will be OK and we can get it in the morning" The next day we went over and Teddy was moving a little slow and Mihya reached in his/her/it's cage picked Teddy up and it died right in her hands! UGGGHHH! Mihya was crying hysterically and of course yelling "you promised!" and I was looking at Josh yelling " I PROMISED!" It was a very tough life lesson for us both! From there Mihya's luck went from bad to worse she got a guinea pig that died once she bonded to it and we got her a chihuahua thinking it was heartier and she had begged for one for such a long time anyway so we gave in only to have it die after a couple of months of a neurological disorder! What trauma for a princess who is emotionally unstable anyway! When the chihuahua died the breeder told us to bring her back in a box and we could trade it out (ouch...tough business!) and in our house came princess Loni!
They say personality traits of a Chihuahua owner is that they are selfish, princess like, etc. Which is very fitting for Princess Mihya... that is what she has told us to call her since she uttered her first words! Seriously, she wore a tiara to her first and second birthday parties and she had no hair! When we go to Disney World she insists on sitting in the front row for all the parades so the characters can see her! Loni is definitely that way too, at just 2 LBS. this is what it looks like at the food bowl.
The good thing is that Mihya and Loni are absolutely in love with each other. Otherwise, we'd have these two little princesses fighting for the power!
Loni has finally reached a whole 2 Lbs. It has taken her about a year but she finally succeeded although it is not as if she was lacking power in our household.
Loni is Princess Mihya's dog and is a teacup chihuahua. Although Josh and I had always had Great Danes Mihya desperately loved small pets. She begged us for every creepy crawly thing that she saw and knowing her personality we just kept saying "you can have one when you have your own house" and the hysterical thing about it, is that she would get all excited planning what pet she would get the day she closed on her first home. Worked until...Kaidon brought home a hamster. I hated that thing I am confident it was out to get me! It's name was Teddy and Teddy was a little Houdini! Yes, I duct taped his stupid cage and yet he'd still escape and always ended up at my feet! I'd get up in the middle of the night to turn someones light off for the umpteenth time and who would crawl across my feet? Yep that psychotic monster, Teddy. Kaidon wouldn't even pick the thing up so I found myself having to ask our neighbor to come hold it while I could clean the cage. When it got out at 2 am I'd sit up on watch until I could call the neighbor boy to put it back in it's cage. We had a HATE HATE HATE relationship that Teddy and I...until...one day Mihya came down holding Teddy and loving all over him/her/it. Yes, she fell in love with that thing and carried it everywhere with her. Then Teddy wasn't so bad to me, I could clean it's cage, had an in house search and rescuer, and I even got to stop feeding the thing because Mihya was a great caregiver. It really surprised us all! Mihya is drama and girly through and through so I didn't think she would ever touch a creepy crawly thing. Well, (there's always drama in a love story) when we were moving into this house from our last house we had a full load going over and the last thing in the house was Teddy. I told Mihya we'd come back for Teddy but that it wasn't safe to have him/her/it crammed into the car it could get hurt (really I was thinking "what if that thing gets out and is crawling all over the car while I am driving?"). She agreed and once we unloaded the car we all got preoccupied with dinner and bedtime. At about 10 p.m. Mihya remembered Teddy and wanted to go right then to get it. I talked her out of it and told her "I PROMISE (very bad key word here. Mommy lesson I can pass on to you all "don't ever promise something you can't control")Teddy will be OK and we can get it in the morning" The next day we went over and Teddy was moving a little slow and Mihya reached in his/her/it's cage picked Teddy up and it died right in her hands! UGGGHHH! Mihya was crying hysterically and of course yelling "you promised!" and I was looking at Josh yelling " I PROMISED!" It was a very tough life lesson for us both! From there Mihya's luck went from bad to worse she got a guinea pig that died once she bonded to it and we got her a chihuahua thinking it was heartier and she had begged for one for such a long time anyway so we gave in only to have it die after a couple of months of a neurological disorder! What trauma for a princess who is emotionally unstable anyway! When the chihuahua died the breeder told us to bring her back in a box and we could trade it out (ouch...tough business!) and in our house came princess Loni!
They say personality traits of a Chihuahua owner is that they are selfish, princess like, etc. Which is very fitting for Princess Mihya... that is what she has told us to call her since she uttered her first words! Seriously, she wore a tiara to her first and second birthday parties and she had no hair! When we go to Disney World she insists on sitting in the front row for all the parades so the characters can see her! Loni is definitely that way too, at just 2 LBS. this is what it looks like at the food bowl.
The good thing is that Mihya and Loni are absolutely in love with each other. Otherwise, we'd have these two little princesses fighting for the power!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Neglected!
Yes, I have officially been neglecting my blog and my blog stalking lately. As I mentioned in passing, we did find a house and now getting everything packed and ready to move has been quite a chore to say the least. Our schedule is jam packed as it is and then to throw this on top of it has left me little time to slow down and laugh at my life (and write about it so you can laugh with me).
Our timeline of events coming up is so darn stressful that I find it really amusing because if I can't laugh about it maybe I will cry???? OK probably not, but I think most people who are not made of rock (like my friend Kathy would say about me, in the most loving way of course) would be crying. So, coming up in the Hunt household is this....
Yes, I have officially been neglecting my blog and my blog stalking lately. As I mentioned in passing, we did find a house and now getting everything packed and ready to move has been quite a chore to say the least. Our schedule is jam packed as it is and then to throw this on top of it has left me little time to slow down and laugh at my life (and write about it so you can laugh with me).
Our timeline of events coming up is so darn stressful that I find it really amusing because if I can't laugh about it maybe I will cry???? OK probably not, but I think most people who are not made of rock (like my friend Kathy would say about me, in the most loving way of course) would be crying. So, coming up in the Hunt household is this....
- Feb 9th play set gets moved to the new house
- Feb 10th-Feb 18th finalize Disney plans, pack for trip and complete majority of house packing, make meals for my mom to feed kids while we are out of town, make mom a schedule for kids so they make it to their scheduled events, complete all projects we started at the new house
- Feb 19th fly to Orlando and kids start back to school
- Feb 25th we are back from Orlando
- Feb 26th and 27th totally finish packing house
- Feb 27th My parents leave for Pueblo with Emma for a weekend soccer tournament (the first time Josh and I will miss seeing her play...so sad!)
- Feb 28th movers come to move us to the new house
- March 1st Emma gets home from tournament
- March 2nd-March 5th finish unpacking and putting house together
- March 6th our good friends and their 24 kids get together at our house!
Phew! not to mention all kids activities, homework, laundry, meals, and life are still going on around us. BUT...we LOVE chaos, obviously or we wouldn't have 6 kids!
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