Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Ugly

Once the decision was made that we weren't going to England, then the real problems began. First off, everything we own was sitting in a storage unit in Oxford. It would be too expensive to ship it all back, so we needed to figure out what to do with it. Then there was the issue of starting a new life here from scratch. At least when Luke and I got married we received tons of housewares, etc as gifts. This time around we had nothing. Well, we did have plenty of housewares sitting in storage in England but they aren't much use to us now. So it's back to basics. We have to buy everything all over again. Plates, cups, can opener, utensils, etc. I am a thrifty person by nature so re-buying these things when we already had perfectly good ones in storage just killed me. (oh, and when I skyped Luke while he was in England going through our storage and I had to watch him donate all of our stuff I could have thrown up...but that's for another post).

And as if we didn't already have enough to buy, now that we are staying we had to purchase two cars. Talk about expensive. I have a whole post to dedicate to our car buying experience so I won't say much here...other than, buying one car is a pain in the butt... two cars is almost always a recipe for disaster.

Then there's the living situation. Since we were not planning on being here more than a month or two we rented a one bedroom apartment. That means Jack has been sleeping in our closet for six months now. He doesn't seem to mind, but I couldn't in good conscience keep him in the closet long term. So we decided to move apartments. We have been really happy at our complex so we decided to stay right here and upgrade to a two bedroom. It just so happened that there was a two bedroom (1st floor!!!) available right by our original apartment. So we moved quickly and packed up and moved apartments.

Talk about an exhausting month. And this is just the beginning. Luke's new job requires him to be in Colorado Springs three days a week. This means that he will leave on Tuesday morning and we won't see him again until Thursday night. This will be a big change for our family since we haven't had to deal with Luke traveling much in the past. I will try to stay busy by signing up for some french classes and hopefully blogging more.



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