The Move is OVER!

Things I'm thankful for after this whole moving ordeal:

• Central air conditioning
• 2-car Garage
  
• Wonderful, friendly new neighbors
• Fenced-in back yard
• Eli's bedroom and the other two bedrooms are upstairs and QUIET - and have soft carpet
  
• Helpful friends and family
  
• Home phone and internet works again

Things that I could have lived without through this whole moving ordeal:

• CRANKY, unhelpful old neighbors
• Getting yelled at for parking the moving truck in the alley (at our condo)
  
• Home phone being turned off for two days/using up all of my cell minutes
• U-Haul being incompetent, not having the truck that we reserved and confirmed in advance...thus making Thursday night's move WAY stressful and long (we had to store half of our stuff in a friend's garage overnight)
  
• Staying up WAY too late every night last week and now feeling sick as a result (Ben too)
  

The little things that make me smile in our new place:

• the ice maker
• the washer/dryer
• my craft room in the basement
• having more space
• watching Eli attempt to go up and down the stairs
• having an eating nook off of the kitchen
• putting Eli to bed upstairs and not having to tiptoe while he's asleep
• not worrying about when I can use the garbage disposal
• and last but not least... no more annoying dog barking, running, and dropping things above my head!
  

I'll post pictures once we're more unpacked... it is slow-going and while we are starting to get things out of boxes, we're not going very fast since we're still so tired from all of this. Our neighbors have been SO friendly - the ones next door brought over cookies from my favorite bakery on the day we moved in. On Saturday, more neighbors came over and said hi/introduced themselves. We've also met the neighbors that share the alley with us and they are all super friendly and have young kids. We feel really lucky to be around so many nice people and to hopefully get settled in our new place soon!