August 23, 2021
I realize that I haven’t actually told you much about the house or what’s going on. It’s just tough to juggle feeding, doing laundry and trying to get the house in order. My body is screaming in pain as well. The couch we have now (the one that was upstairs in our apartment) is nice and comfortable if you sit on it for a little while, even sleeping on it is just fine (it’s a sleeper sofa), but to sit cross-legged with a baby eating from you all day long is certainly not comfortable. So I try to stretch muscles a little here and there throughout the day but I need more than that. Every day I try to think what I should prioritize when I have free time; take a shower, do yoga or start my laptop 🙂
Most of all I wish we had a dining table. This was the first thing I wanted to order and luckily I found a dining set I liked right after we moved in. I was so excited to be able to sit down to eat a meal and to possibly be able to feed Lily while doing stuff on my computer or do my yoga study sitting at the table. But, shopping online has unfortunately been disappointing. One chair and the table arrived broken. And one drawer of the TV unit we ordered was broken as well (plus almost delivered to the wrong house, but Jim ran over there to stop him). It took several days of emails and phone calls to the different companies to be able to get replacements. So, it looks like it might work out after all but we now have to wait two three weeks (or longer) for new furniture to arrive. So we have to continue to eat standing up by the kitchen island (the chairs are too low for the island).Â
Our bedframe was supposed to be delivered last Sunday, but on Monday they said it was delayed. Figured it was due to the storm. Now they say it will be here sometime in September.Â
We have also ordered a couch. When J was on the phone with the sales person right after we found this couch they said it could be shipped the 20th but we wanted to take a day to think about it cause a couch is an expensive purchase plus it was a bit bigger than we had originally thought about so we wanted to space it out in the living room and think about it first. The next day when he called to order they now said it won’t be shipped until the 27th (I guess someone had purchased the couch the day before so they needed to order a new one or something), but that’s ok. However, I don’t know when the arrival date is, it could be any time after the 27th and after reading all the reviews on all the hundreds of furniture stores of different couches we’ve looked at, it seems like it will take forever for a couch to arrive. We’ll see. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
This weekend we ordered a bunch of other stuff. We said before moving here that we would only buy stuff that we had thought through, but now we ended up making quick decisions and just ordered tons of stuff anyway, haha, but sometimes that works out for the best in the end:) I also decided to order a changing table last week without really thinking about it or doing any research. It arrived yesterday, I put it together right before Lily’s bedtime and so far I love it, so it worked out.Â
And our address is still a problem. You see, there is two streets next to each other with almost the same name. One ends with Drive and the other ends with Lane. Both streets starts with the same house number. It. Is. Retarded. This means that our house on the corner and the neighbors house on the corner of the other street has almost the same address. And since our house is brand new, this house number didn’t exist before.
It must have been so frustrating and annoying for the neighbor dealing with this. When our house was being built he would sometimes end up with huge packages of wood and bricks dropped off on his property. When the dining chairs arrived he came over and told us to bring our car to pick up our boxes cause it was huge and heavy. This guy has now moved so now we have to sometimes walk over there to see if there’s any packages laying around.
The cable company said at first that they can’t install internet in our house cause we already have internet = the other house has internet and by default when searching for our house it directs to the neighbors. My husband has probably started to get some grey hair from dealing with the post office and the postal services. But he fixed the problem, now our address exist and we do get mail in our mail box and we do get packages delivered to our door, except from FedEx. J has spoken to them multiple times and they have put in a note that we live in the BLUE house on the corner and yet, everything they deliver goes to the neighbors house. Whenever we have large stuff coming (like the dining set) J has to sit by the window all day to look for FedEx. I just hope our couch which will be extremely heavy, wont be dropped off at the wrong house, that would be a disaster.Â
If anyone is interested, I created a new Instagram account for our house. You can follow our journey to make this house a home and later on follow the process of building our Dream House:)
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