Thoughts on Thursdays: Moving

There's not really a point to this blog today. I wanted to write. So here's the dribble.

Moving is not easy.  Leaving friends.  Leaving stores you know.  Leaving support mechanisms that it took years to cultivate. 

But it was a necessary evil for the kids and I, because we just weren't making it in the craziness of DC suburb life.

So here we are nearly 1-1/2 months into our new home, our new schools, our new routines.  Some of the things that are working better in NC than in VA:

1. The kids have TOTALLY adjusted beautifully!
2. Having the kids' rooms upstairs and mine downstairs creates a sense of (needed) "division" between the adult and the kid world.
3. Kids get moving easier in the morning and are dressing themselves.
4. I've got the morning routine down to a science and we are able to eat breakfast together.
5. I've got lunches and snacks down to a science (thanks to my friend's blog advice on waste-free lunches.
6. Homework is getting done in aftercare so I only need to check and review rather than fight the kids to do it when we get home in the evening.
7. The weather is nicer - in general - not sure I really understand why - but it is.
8. Screened in back porch with alley way for kids to play in allows them to have some extra time at the end of the day outside.  Good for everyone.

Some things that are not quite so great yet in NC compared to VA:

1. No Tues/Thurs meals and kitchen cleaning.  (Diane and Daughter I MISS YOU GUYS!!!)
2. No good mother's group that I can ask local advice from . (I still rely heavily on my Leesburg/Ashburn group! :)
3. No friends to meet up with for a Mom's Night Out.
4. Target is 25 minutes away.
5. I am still getting hounded with legal petitions from X and have already had to drive up to VA and back twice in the first month of moving down here.
6. FIRE ANTS!
7. (I think, perhaps, #5 and #6 might be related.)

Well, that's about it for my thoughts for today.  Ho hum.  But tomorrow is Friday!

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Friday's on the Front Porch - Summer 2010

Wish I could remember the name of this band - they were a lot of fun!

This is the first in a series of "Back-Blogging" I'm going to do to add some meat to this blog to start.  I'm posting up some things the kids and I did from a few years back that were fun, or crazy or just plain blog-worthy.

This is a really fun program held at the Carolina Inn on UNC Campus Friday Nights in the spring and summer.  It is family friendly and culturally explosive!  =)  The kids absolutely love the freedom to run around and dance and be silly on the lawn.  You can bring your own seating or just throw a blanket down, sit back and enjoy.  It's free to get in and you can purchase fried chicken meals, drinks and beer.

HINTS: 

Bring snacks, drinks, blankets for the kids.  You can bring your own food in and the kids will love it!

Might want to consider bug spray.  Poor little Emily did get a lot of chigger or mosquitto bites from sitting in the grass.  

My kids loved the Mashups - Squeezable Fruit PERFECT for little kids on the go! 

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