Two years ago, on this day, June 3rd, we went out on our first outing as a family of 6. Solly was three days old. The reason for our outing?
We picked up the keys to our brand new house!!! It was SUCH an exciting day! I remember crying a lot, haha! I was so overcome with emotion at that point. We moved in the very next day, thanks to a HUGE group of willing, loving friends!! I will never forget that time of life!
Last year, on June 3rd, we spent the morning at the towns parade, and spent the evening with my parents, celebrating Solly’s birthday. According to the blog, I spent the afternoon napping, as I was feeling decently sick that day, as well as the day before. As memory serves, I had gotten my positive pregnancy test not even two weeks before then. I remember being quite anxious about it all, considering we had lost Theo earlier that year, and it had taken a few months to conceive again. So I was feeling quite nervous and excited and sick and tired and hormonal and ALL the things. Also nervous about other things, as our little band played its first “gig” the very next day! There was a lot going on one year ago! Like the year before, there was a LOT of emotion!
Now, this year, June 3rd. We are in FULL nesting mode! Well, I guess I’m the only one nesting, but my loving husband is happily on board to join me, and is working hard alongside me, doing way more stairs and lifting and general running while I made decisions, organized, purged, and – lets be real – made a mess. Laundry has been buzzing since breakfast, we’ve organized a bunch of boxes that made their way inside during our garage purge a while back, and threw away a TON of stuff that I was storing in the storage closet that we really don’t need to keep. I brought the hanging baby clothes into the boys big closet. We borrowed the carpet cleaner from my parents in hopes of cleaning our living room carpet and seeing how much further we get in the coming weeks. Its been a BIG day of getting stuff done, and there is more coming! The laundry continues to wash. Lots of things need organizing and tidying. I found five or six fridgesmart Tupperware containers that I’m SO excited to wash and LOAD with veggies so everything lasts and gets eaten and nothing goes to waste. The kids were scratching at the doors to get out this morning, so we promised them a bit of outside time this afternoon. I think Brady is going to clean the van with them, and maybe even install the bucket seat. I know, its SO early for that, but if he’s already in there, pulling seats out and vacuuming, he may as well, right? Eek! Stuff is getting DONE!
There is no shortage of stuff to get done around here, but I’m thoroughly enjoying it! It feels great to actually be prepping things for summer, and for our new baby to come home. Not that she’ll notice or care, but I will š Even Dekker has the bug, and spent the last chunk of playtime before lunch going through his nightstand, and purging out the things he wasn’t attached to anymore. I love watching him make judgement calls and deciding whats important and what isn’t. He’s so grown up! They all are š And they’re all amazing! I’m so smitten.