Confessions of a Mormon Barista.: Moved.

I haven't been much use to anyone, 'blog'-wise for the past 2 1/2 weeks. There is a legitimate reason for this. We have MOVED! yes, we have left the wilderness of Southeast Texas, to be official residents of the 4th largest city in the United States, Houston!
We decided a couple of months ago that, just because Rob is a pilot, he shouldn't have to include travel in EVERY aspect of work. (i.e. he was tired of commuting over an hour one way, just to get to the SMALL airport that he is currently working at)

Aubrey decided that she would not be happy un-held

We hunted around, and finally found a place in a relatively, nice area in the north Houston area, which also just HAPPENS to be a quick 10 minute drive from Houston's scenic, 'Bush Intercontinental Airport' which, is where Rob would prefer to be working. (fingers tightly crossed on that one)

I spent as much time as I could, cleaning, packing, and unpacking boxes. Over the past month my life has been full of ALOT of cardboard. It took me probably three times as long as it should have to get all my packing and unpacking done, because my, already clingy baby girl decided to double her efforts.

Her new, increased, output of whine, and 'givemeallyourattentionnow' meant that I typically, only had 5-10 minute intervals during which, I was allowed to attempt, to pack our worldly belongings, before she would decide she had spent enough time NOT dominating my attention.

Moving ended up becoming a project of epic proportions due, mostly to the fact that temperatures in our general vicinity have been ~~Hell-like~~ over 100 degrees, since the beginning of June. We got our truck, the biggest one u-haul had to offer, the night before and started loading some of the boxes, with the idea that it would reduce the amount of work we might have to do in the heat of the day.

It did not.

I failed to take into account the fact that my father-in-law, while incredible, is an engineer at heart, and despite the fact that he showed up at 7:15 the next morning, it still took us over 6 1/2 hours to get the truck loaded. The reason was that he and my husband would stand there, at the back of the truck engineering where everything should go; boxes in the very back, stacked to the top, then all the furniture so that when we unloaded at the new place, the furniture went in first and the boxes didn't take up all the space so there would not be room for the furniture etc. etc..... I will admit, this logically made sense. however, it took FOREVER to get it all in the truck! When we finally got everything in the truck and were literally, getting ready to close it up and leave, we realized something...we couldn't find the key to the u-haul. I asked Rob where he had set it and he told me it was with a few other things he had left on top of his dresser. The dresser had, naturally, been loaded carefully into the truck. The items on top had been packed into a small box by a well intentioned helper, early on. That box had been packed into the back of the truck before ALL the furniture had been carefully placed in their respective positions.

I wanted to cry...

I quickly pled with God to 'give us a break' and my husband channeled his favorite Marvel comic hero, and climbed "spider-like" over all the furniture to the very back of the (now oven-like) truck to start going through boxes to see if we could find the key without having to completely take everything out to find it. I couldn't believe it, the key was in the SECOND box we checked!
Once we made it to the new place, I found that my mother in law came through, and had scrambled last minute, to get some people to meet us at the new place and help us unload the truck. Fortunately, unloading was a good deal faster than loading.

Now we are here, and I must say, I LOVE being an official Houstonian for the second time in my life! We went from having to drive at least a half an hour to get to "town"(pronounced 'Tay-oww-n' for you non-southerners) Just to go to Wal-Mart! Now we live near EVERYTHING! I can drive five minutes in any direction and find, grocery stores, restaurants, post offices, and really whatever I need!

Also, I love the way the new house is set up!