We've moved!

So sorry it's been awhile since we've posted, but the whole family has picked up and moved!

We found a lovely house with a big rose garden and fountain in the back, and enough room to make us comfortable. (once we unpack all of the boxes.)  I am so happy. We are finally getting stuff out of storage that has beeen in there for 3 years while we got back on our feet after I became disabled from this stupid fibromyalgia.

Speaking of the fibro, it's been present, but held mostly at bay by trigger point injections from my doc. It's enabled me to paint, and do quite a bit more stuff than I had expected I could do, though towards the end when we prepared to move all of our stuff in, I felt as if I had been hit by a truck.

Now we are firmly into the unpacking stage and I have a working kitchen with pots and pans, food and dishes. We even did a big Ikea run and got both daughters outfitted with new items for their bedrooms and 3 bookcases for us. We've never actually had real bookcases, just the brick and board ones, because we have so many books. Our youngest daughter, Rowan, has never had her own bedroom either, so she got all sorts of stuff. Now she just needs a nice dresser and a curtain rod so I can finish the basics and put pictures on her wall. It's a big transition for her. She is so used to being in a room with another person when she sleeps, that it has taken us days to slowly get her used to being by herself for a bit.

I've not been doing any jewelry or crochet because of the move. Plus, this week I sprained my whole arm and shoulder badly while tryine to soothe Rowan in her crib. Chair slid out from under me and I hit the ground while still holding top of the crib. At first we thought I had a broken arm.

So anyway, now we are running around trying to get the rest of the way unpacked. I am doing some of it 1 armed, and not gotten much done for the last 3 days. My mother in law very graciously watched the girls and took them to school so I could take pain meds and rest my arm. It's helped, but when I have the one year old in the evenings she tries to use my arm as a trampoline because she is jubilant to be home, and it kills my arm. LOL.

Anyway, at some point shortly here I will blog more, and expect the flavor of my post to change a bit because the environment has changed. Once I clear the space, I even have a workbench of sorts to use!

I hope all of you out there are enjoying the last bits of summer. I think I just talked my sleepy husband into sangria and steaks with potato salad on sunday or monday.