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Someday Jon & I will live in a cool, modern home like this:


While I'm hoping we're going to start doing some focused dreaming, we'll be doing it while living comfortably and happily at Nona's (my mother) cozy, elegant, beautiful home.

After a 7-month job search, Nona has her first day at work today. We're thrilled for her and hope it will be a great new adventure. However, this long and arduous search really cut into her savings and, as our lease was due to come up we all decided it would be beneficial for us to combine households for a while. We hope it will help all of us sock away some money and make our little girl's arrival in October a little smoother. Not to mention leaving behind a sucky dishwasher and heinous clothes dryer. Wahoo! Nona was kind enough to move into her guestroom, enclose her office to make a bedroom for Xander and just make our invasion of her home as welcoming as humanly possible.

We had an incredible amount of help. In addition to the 3 movers we hired, our friends (Martin, Julie, Jovida, Lauren) and family (Andrew, Bree, Rob, Nanc, Jeremy) showed up to help us pack and move. My father and stepmother (Nonno & Nina) took Xander for half the day and Nona watched Davis while his parents (Andrew & Bree) helped us pack and made sure we all had clean beds to sleep in and clean clothes accessible for work and daycare today. Whew!

We still have to pack the kitchen for storage and make a couple trips to with some boxes. Oh, and schedule a GoodWill pick up! But we're in decent shape. Exhausted, but in decent shape!