moved

mostly. I mean, we're moved, obviously, but we're not like, unpacked or anything. Our room and the boy's room are fully put away, but the wee lass's room lacks some storage, so her clothes are mostly on the floor. Sad, I know. We're getting a new dresser for the boy, so she'll inherit the dresser that he has currently, which matches the crib anyway. The painting went well for their rooms, the boy's is a really nice blue, a bit darker than the other rooms, but it's good for him because it makes it darker at night for sleeping. Also, as I've said, should be calming and whatnot. The girl's room is a really nice bright springy green. I was a bit worried when it was going on, but it's settled into a lovely colour. It does glow a bit on the door and trim, but still nice. I need to find some nice fabric to make curtains out of. I'd like something pretty but not too frou-frou or grown up. Fabricville only has so much, so it's proving hard to find something nice that will coordinate with the room. She has started sleeping in the crib in her room, which was a bit of a change since she was in the bassinet in our room for the first 2 months of her life. It's not quite as easy at night, but she's only up once anyway (not bragging, still a bit in disbelief, honestly) so it's definitely manageable.

We have a basement now, so a lot of the packed boxes have gone there to live for a while. Most of the basement is finished, so the boxes are hanging out in the unfinished part with the cat stuff, tools, washer and dryer, and wooh, deep freeze! Sweet. We got our new furniture yesterday, and while I LOVE it, the man is like, "I thought we were getting a couch and a chair..." (which we did, but it's a chair and a half, which is a big chair, which I DID fully explain, but he's a man, and does not listen / pay attention / remember things that I say) so I don't know that he's thrilled, but oh well! We had planned to put the tv upstairs and have another smaller one downstairs for the boy and for movies and stuff, but I think for now we may just leave it downstairs. It's hot, man. And not in the basement, so we don't mind hanging out down there in the evenings.

I want to get some hanging baskets, to which the man has said I can hold off, because he doesn't want the porch overrun with flowers. I don't think 2 hanging baskets qualifies as overrun, but we'll see. I think it's like a rule that if you have a porch, you need hanging baskets. Right? For now I just got a planter for the steps and some pretty annuals, none of which I know the name of. That's a lie, there are snapdragons. I've always thought those were pretty fun.

I'm heading to Maine in a couple of weeks, ostensibly to visit my uncle who runs a restaurant down there in Boothbay Harbor, but really we'll be doing more shopping than visiting. Not cause we don't like him, just cause running a restaurant takes a lot of work, and he's not home much. Also for that reason, the boy will not be joining us, but spending the time with his other grandparents. They had planned to take him anyway, for their vacation, so it works out well. The girl will be joining us, since she's pretty dependent on me for food and such. She likes to sleep and cuddle, so I don't see it being a problem trucking her around to Freeport and stuff.

It's been wicked hot here the past few days. We've gone to the wading pool a few times, but have also been hiding out in the aforementioned basement to keep cool. Air conditioning is for suckers! We have ceiling fans in all the bedrooms, which helps a bit, but it works a lot better if we keep the windows open at night. This is kind of a problem too, because we don't live in the boonies anymore, so we have neighbours, and traffic and stuff, which make noise. It's an adjustment, for sure.