All Settled In

Well, we're very nearly all settled in. There's absolutely NO WAY we could have done it without the help of my dad! He drove the car so I didn't have to, helped my husband get the heavy boxes up, and made sure I didn't carry anything too heavy (explanation to come). Plus, then he helped me with the unpacking and finding places for everything, watching my daughter so I could sleep in (again, there's a reason and it's NOT laziness). In other words, he was a lifesaver!

We have a cute, two bedroom apartment. The living area even has a fireplace!! There are two balconies, also! And then my hubby found some great furniture for a great price on CraigsList, so we have a china cabinet, dining room table and chairs, and a bookshelf! With all my daughter's toys, it really looks like a lived in home *smiles*.

We still have to decorate her room, but her toys all have places to be and get put back in them with some regularity, which is amazing!

We finally started school back up on Wednesday of last week after a nearly three week break thanks to moving. She seemed mostly excited to get back into the swing of things. Unfortunately, Friday I had a migraine which meant another day mostly off :(. But today hopefully we'll be able to make most of that up. We got our school area all set up, and my daughter's had a ton of fun drawing on the chalkboard.

She really wants to draw on the dry-erase board, but I don't have any markers or anything for it, so she's not been able to do that yet. But she's not letting me forget about getting her those markers!!

We've started using a chore chart, also. Everytime she does a chore, she puts a little magnet by the chore she accomplished. At the end of the week, we're going to tally up how many magnets she got and she'll get that many pennies. We also decided that everytime she say's "yes ma'am" or "yes sir" and does what we've told her, and does it cheerfully, she'll get a tally mark, and at the end of the week, how ever many tally marks she has she'll get that many pennies. She has the potential to earn LOTS of pennies *grins* I also ordered some things by the Maxwells of Titus2 some things to help me manage my time etc (Managers of Their Homes, Managers of Their Chores and a few others. I have a terrible time with scheduling and organizing, so I'm hopeful that these will help me!!

Also, right before we started packing to move, I took a pregnancy test...and it was positive! I'm due early early May (like May 3rd). Today was my first midwife appointment. She seems really cool, just had a baby herself so totally knows what she's talking about and I'm going through *smiles*. My daughter got to come along and we heard the baby's heartbeat. It was nice and strong. I know it was probably a coincidence, but whenever my daughter spoke the baby's heartbeat responded. I know she'll be a great big sister. She's already super excited! So stay tuned to hear more of our exciting next year!!