Well we have arrived! We are in New Brunswick, in our house, we have our furniture and Jeff is back to work! It's been a very hard couple of weeks...but we are all, slowly but surely, adjusting to life back in New Brunswick!
We closed on the house our first Tuesday in New Brunswick...two weeks ago this Tuesday. Our furniture wasn't due to arrive until Friday so we were stuck at the Days Inn. It was a nice hotel, Central Air; indoor pool; cable tv and internet, so looking back now I'm really not certain why I was in such a hurry to get moved in!! LOL Friday morning the movers made it to our door. It was blistering hot!! About 95 degrees. They only sent two men...one who had been on the job two weeks and one who had started that morning. Needless to say things didn't run smoothly. There were boxes all over, most in rooms where they shouldn't be, and the furniture was just shoved in the middle of the room in the midst of the thousands of boxes. We diligently worked all weekend and actually made some progress. Our living room/dining room/kitchen area looked great! That's when the second big blow came...the unpackers. A crew of two came bright and early Monday morning to unpack us...sounds like a great help...it's really not. They unpacked the boxes and laid everything in the middle of the floor. They also unpacked the boxes exactly where they were. We have little girls clothing in the office, high school year books in the kitchen, and important papers in the garage. When they left I thought I might honestly crack. It was hot hot hot...Jeff was starting back to work...the house was an absolute disaster...and the icing on the cake was the fact that we had no cable, no phone and no Internet. Nightmare!!!
I spent the rest of the week trying to make some kind of dent in the crapola laying everywhere and console my two very miserable children...oh yes and try desperately not to fall into a depression. It was probably one of the most stressful times in my life. But we made it through!! Late Thursday evening I had cable/phone and internet...it almost made the fact that Jeff was at a Mess dinner whooping it up with the boys tolerable...almost! LOL
This weekend we took a drive to Houlton Maine. I wanted to get a PO box there...so anyone from the states who wants to mail us anything please feel free to mail it to the PO Box...the cost difference is incredible!! We'll be checking that once a month or so. That also gives us an opportunity to do some grocery shopping across the border. Groceries are the one thing Canada doesn't charge customs on, so we went crazy shopping in Maine!! With the dollar value almost par it really pays us to do that. We loaded up on milk, butter, cheese, eggs, chicken ect. It will really save us in the long run!! Not to mention Maddy absolutely loves this homemade chicken noodle soup I made in OK all the time...one of the few healthy things she enjoys...and I just couldn't justify making it with a $13.65 whole chicken!! Wal-mart's $3.50 chickens will taste much better, at least to me!! LOL
The house is looking better, not great yet, but better. My good friend Janis dropped by Friday night and I literally burst into tears. Seeing a friendly face was amazing...and really all I needed to feel human again!! I talked to my Mom for three hours (we have unlimited calling to the states) and my sister for almost two hours (thanks, Papa John's!) and I actually began to feel like I can make it here!
Tomorrow we are headed over the Military Family Resource Center to see if there are any programs/classes offered for kids Maddy's age. She's had a rough go of it and I want to see if I can't find something to help pass the time until school starts in September. Looks like it might cool off this week too!! We will be just fine!! Really!
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