Back To Normal… Almost

Posted by Lorren on April 25, 2008

We finally moved in to our new house Wednesday. Almost. We still have all our appliances over at the old house, and anything that we haven’t needed for the last few weeks that we’re going to be able to salvage from the old house.

I never thought that I could get exhausted from shopping, but it is possible when you’re replacing things that you need for your house. We’ve spent probably more than $2000 in the last couple of days. There are the obvious things… like cribs, mattresses, televisions, entertainment centers, a couch to sit on, lighting, but then as you try to go on about your daily life, you discover that you are missing other things too. Good thing we live close to Wal-Mart!

You never think about the little things that you use on a daily basis and only replace when you are dissatisfied with what you currently have or it breaks. Things like… a colander. Or pot holders. I made spaghetti and rolls last night… then I discovered that even though I had a pot to put the spaghetti in, I didn’t have potholders to take the food out, didn’t have a colander, I didn’t even have a large spoon to stir the spaghetti in the pot. I found things to make due, but I realized how you just get so used to having things and you take them for granted.

There are food staples that I know that I always seem to have that I’m finding need to be replaced. Like soy sauce. I usually pick up a bottle when it’s on sale and I have a coupon, so I always seem to have one in my pantry by the time I run out. But it lasts a long time. If I want to make stir-fry vegetables, I just take it for granted that it’s there.

We got our phone service and Tivo back up, finally. That’s another thing that I tend to take for granted. Getting those back up hinged on getting the internet working, since we use Vonage, and Tivo needs either a phone connection or an internet connection (through your router) to work. The internet, what do you know, decided that it wanted to have problems our first two days here, so we had neither internet, nor phone, nor Tivo… and since we hook our cable through the Tivo box, we didn’t have television either.

But slowly, it’s all coming together. We’ve assembled the futon, entertainment center, crib, new adult bed, and dd is sleeping on a Ready-bed on the floor until we can get the rest of our insurance money. We have a little bit of food in the cupboard and enough utensils to make a couple of things. The phone, cable, internet, and Tivo are back up. Tomorrow our church has assembled a moving party, and we’ll get the washer and dryer, freezer, desk for me, and even dd’s play house is coming… that’s going to be a fun one to move… my dad made it and it’s made out of wood, it’s big enough that I can stand up in the very center (although I’m short).

After tomorrow, there will still be moving tasks… primarily going through the house and getting the things out that we wish to keep… but the big stuff will be done. And life will return to a new sort of normalcy.