Can We Panic Now!?!

(name that movie)

Anyway, long story short, we we're supposed to sign the lease for our new apartment on Dec 7th & move over the course of the following week, turning in keys on our current apartment Dec. 12th, but on Dec. 2nd at the close of the business day I received a call saying that the new apartment wouldn't be ready until the Fire Marshall signed off & the new release date was projected for Jan. 8th. Begin 18 hour interlude for panic attack & mad dashing to make alternative arrangements should the worst case scenario evolve & we have no home for 3 weeks. Thankfully everything worked out & we were able to extend our lease termination until Jan. So now we are 5 days & counting from our tentative move date (we still don't have an official release on the new apartment but everything is "still on schedule") & we're making good progress on the packing & moving prep. The silver lining to the change in our move date is that the whole family was miserably sick the week we would have been moving in Dec. which would have made for a very difficult move, vomiting kids & mommy & bed ridden daddy do not make for a successful move. I'm in a much better place about being prepared for our move but still slightly panicked until we actually sign the lease for the new place.

Baby update: Ava is healthy & moving around a lot... A LOT! Hubby has been able to feel her kicking for a couple weeks now. I only get nauseous if I go too long without eating & otherwise I'm feeling pretty good. Emma is more aware of her new sibling this time around & very excited, Liam is mostly oblivious other than saying "baby" a few times when I've been explaining to the kids about Ava being their baby sister.

We had a wonderful Christmas, frugal & simple but surrounded by family... the best kind of Christmas. We rung in the New Year with a fun cheese party at a friend's house (no stinky cheeses this year) & tasted a couple cheeses I had never heard of. We haven't set any New Year's resolutions yet because we've been too busy with trying to prepare for our move, once we get settled I'd like to set some goals for our family this year as well as some personal resolutions.

So that's my life right now, interspersed with explosive poopy diapers (thanks, Liam) & cold hot chocolate (because that's what Emma likes & heaven forbid we call it chocolate milk).