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Still no DSL and other moving updates.
Mar. 11th, 2008 12:04 pmStill drowning in a thousand little problems and inconveniences associated with the move. I think that eventually this will be a wonderful house to live in, and we'll be very happy there. Right now? Things are pretty frustrating.
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All of these things are surmountable. In fact, many of them have already been surmounted. It's just that cumulatively they are discouraging and exhausting. On top of all of the work trying to get settled into the new house, we're trying to clean the old house and move the last five percent of our stuff. At least the new house is close enough to the old house that the baby monitor works across both places, so we can go over late at night to clean. Except for the part where, late at night, we would really rather be in bed.
Alex initially took the move very well - she was excited and happy to come home to the new house and discover all our things there. In recent days, it has finally sunk in that we won't ever be going back to live in our old house again, and she's having some trouble with that. She doesn't really understand why. I think, in her mind, the move was just like when we go to visit someone else's house and bring some of our own things - except on a larger scale. So it's like going on vacation and then never coming back home. We totally forgot to include the permanency factor when we were explaining things to her in advance.
Also, she is not happy that (until late last night) we didn't have the TV/VCR/DVD/TiVO equipment hooked up yet. She's never been allowed to watch much TV (one video a day unless she's sick, and often no TV at all on school days), but apparently not having the option to watch anything is the everything-is-different straw that broke the camel's back.
Her stress is manifesting as (a) excessive sleepiness, and (b) whining and tantrums. Which might be related to the excessive sleepiness. She melts down all evening until we can get her into bed, and then she sleeps so late in the morning that I have to wake her for nursery school, to which we are thus inevitably late. This is not a particularly fun parenting cycle. It took us until late last night to realize that, duh, this is probably moving stress and not just Alex suddenly becoming an awful person. Hopefully that realization will make us more tolerant... except that, you know, we're pretty stressed out too.
Someday soon we will have gotten enough of the extra moving work done that I will be able to take a long hot bath in my new clawfoot bathtub. And then everything will be okay. Right?
More entries for the Big Bulleted List Of Frustration:( Read more... )
All of these things are surmountable. In fact, many of them have already been surmounted. It's just that cumulatively they are discouraging and exhausting. On top of all of the work trying to get settled into the new house, we're trying to clean the old house and move the last five percent of our stuff. At least the new house is close enough to the old house that the baby monitor works across both places, so we can go over late at night to clean. Except for the part where, late at night, we would really rather be in bed.
Alex initially took the move very well - she was excited and happy to come home to the new house and discover all our things there. In recent days, it has finally sunk in that we won't ever be going back to live in our old house again, and she's having some trouble with that. She doesn't really understand why. I think, in her mind, the move was just like when we go to visit someone else's house and bring some of our own things - except on a larger scale. So it's like going on vacation and then never coming back home. We totally forgot to include the permanency factor when we were explaining things to her in advance.
Also, she is not happy that (until late last night) we didn't have the TV/VCR/DVD/TiVO equipment hooked up yet. She's never been allowed to watch much TV (one video a day unless she's sick, and often no TV at all on school days), but apparently not having the option to watch anything is the everything-is-different straw that broke the camel's back.
Her stress is manifesting as (a) excessive sleepiness, and (b) whining and tantrums. Which might be related to the excessive sleepiness. She melts down all evening until we can get her into bed, and then she sleeps so late in the morning that I have to wake her for nursery school, to which we are thus inevitably late. This is not a particularly fun parenting cycle. It took us until late last night to realize that, duh, this is probably moving stress and not just Alex suddenly becoming an awful person. Hopefully that realization will make us more tolerant... except that, you know, we're pretty stressed out too.
Someday soon we will have gotten enough of the extra moving work done that I will be able to take a long hot bath in my new clawfoot bathtub. And then everything will be okay. Right?
