A House Update

 We moved a couple of weeks ago. Although I cried saying goodbye to the baby’s swings and to Rachel as my next door neighbor at the old house, I have never been so excited to move on in my life. We are all still stunned that we live here and have so much space to move around. I have kitchen drawers! And bathroom drawers! The old house didn’t have any. And our pantry is so big we are turning it into a mini library and office. 

Luna told me the other day that playing in her new room is “an elegant affair”.

I can’t wait for November 1st. I’m planning to decorate for Christmas SO HARDCORE this year.

It has been a revolving door of nieces coming over which is in my top 10 favorite things in life.

We live within a couple blocks of 3 parks now. It has felt so surreal to be able to go to the park with the girls in the evenings on my own. I’m not able to drive later in the day so that has never been possible before. The other night the girls played at the park as I drank a late cup of coffee while watching the golden sunset and it felt so wonderful. When we came home from the park, I was putting all the girl’s things away and asked Luna to put my shoes in the closet. She carried the shoes away and stopped to ask me inquiringly,”So… do I have to work for my living now??”

Me, laughing, “Yes, Luny, you have to work for your living. Welcome to adulthood.”

She sighed,”Wow. I was really hoping you’d say you can do all the chores yourself.”

Unrelated to the house, but needs to be told:

The other week, while watching Frozen, Luna sat on the couch in her Frozen dress-up dress and exclaimed,”WHY THE HELL DID HE DO THAT??” when Kristoff did whatever he was doing at that moment. Aaron and I raised our eyebrows at each other. 

“Luna, we don’t really say that. We don’t use the word hell in that context”, I said.

Luna asked in confusion,”Oh, why not?”

I was mentally scrambling around to think why we don’t say it when Aaron responded with,”Because Hell is a bad place.”

This made sense to Luna,”Ah okay. But Heaven is a good place so I can say why the HEAVENS did he do that.”

A few days later I heard Luna as she tried to reach her protein shake on the top refrigerator shelf,”UGH WHAT THE HEEEELLLL. *quick pause* I mean, UGH WHAT THE HEAVENS!!!”

We are just thankful it wasn’t anything worse because when she was very small she couldn’t pronounce truck properly and we heard her say the f-word quite a bit.

Anyway, we love our new house! We love the heavens out of it!