The Big Move

*Blows dust and cobwebs off space*

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Is this thing on?

Oh. Heeeey there.  It's been a while!  I had no intentions of neglecting this little space before the move, but life pretty much kicked us in the face and as usual the blog is the first to take a hit.  If you've been following along for a while, you may know that we were preparing to pack up our lives in Florida and make the move to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  We've been here just 5 short days and what a whirlwind it has been.

To catch you up, I'll take you back about a week before our move.  Please enjoy all my run on sentences and super high tech iphone-tography in this post.

We decided to use PODS for our move because we'll end up keeping some of our stuff in storage since we are temporarily living in an apartment while we house hunt.  Upon getting our quote for PODS the representative recommended a size for us that was completely wrong.  When we received our POD it was SO SMALL and there was no way most of our things were going to fit in it.  So, we had a decision to make, pack the less important things in the POD along with furniture we could live without for a while and call it a day.  We decided to rent a Uhaul for the rest of our things and conveniently our local Uhuals were out of all their big box trucks leaving us only with a 6x12 tow behind trailer. As you might have guessed, that wasn't big enough for our things either.  We spent countless hours trying to Tetris our belongings into that trailer to no avail.  We were forced to leave countless things behind which happened to include our mattress set.  This also delayed our schedule several hours and we didn't get on the road until 10pm.

[No Cable, No Problem]

We figured we could knock out the 4.5 hour drive through the night while the kids slept.  About 3am we were so tired we couldn't see straight and were forced to pull over to a hotel to nap so we could finish the remainder of the trip.  After some shut eye we finally got back on the road and arrived that afternoon in Tuscaloosa.  Once we arrived, we called a local moving company to help my husband with the big stuff since we are on the second floor of an apartment complex. There was no way I was going to be able to get this stuff upstairs 8 weeks postpartum.  The movers ended up breaking several pieces of furniture, our ottoman had rubber grips on the bottom and because of the heat in the trailer it melted them and they slid the ottoman across our freshly shampooed carpet leaving black streaks about 3ft long, and our washer sensor has gone out from them banging the drum around as they carried it up the stairs.  To top it all off, Mykenzi got a hold of a pen and colored all over her bedroom wall and mattress-less we were forced to sleep on the floor until we bought a new one.

[That Hotel Life.]

[Rest Stop Selfie]

Our POD finally arrived days later.  This held our big pieces of furniture we were waiting on.  We got the kid's furniture upstairs and we were ready for ours, as we pulled on our dresser to get it to a place where we could lift it upstairs, the minute it was tugged on it literally fell apart.  The top lifted right off causing the side to fall down, the front fell flat, and all the drawers dropped to the ground. Now we need a new dresser.  Y'all, as much as I wanted to bust out into tears, at this point, all I could do was laugh hysterically.  It really wouldn't have been so bad, but a few hours prior we were locked out of our apartment because the pin mechanism broke in our lock causing it to jam.  They had to completely drill out our lock and give us a new one.

I can't make this stuff up, y'all.  It's been royal poop emoji fest over here.  If it can go wrong, it has.  If it can break, it has.  And if it can bring me to the brink of insanity, it has.  This move will be the death of me.

Despite all that has gone wrong, we are holding up okay.  We've managed to get around pretty well around town and have only gotten lost a few times.  I live incredibly close to a Chickfila and that is the first thing I made sure I knew how to get to, so I think I'll survive okay while my Husband is at work.  Stay tuned as I'm sure the hits will keep on coming as we continued to get settled in.  Just promise me you'll pray that I don't lose my sanity entirely.

[First Game Day in Tuscaloosa]

On the blog front, I do have some pretty exciting things coming up.  I've been working with some great companies and I can't wait to share all their great products with you.  I've also been working on some personal posts that I'm excited to share with you as well. And last, my re-brand is still in the works and I hope to share that with you all very soon! Baking Baby Brown needs a face lift so bad!

So, I'm sorry I've been so MIA, but it was for good reason! I hope to be around more often as we continue to settle in our new home.