The Move

Last week was nothing but chaos. I worked like crazy getting our apartment ready for the move-cleaning, packing, packing, and packing. Saturday was finally the big day. Russell's parent's and sister came to help along with 4 or 5 awesome friends from church. We had our 20 ft. moving truck packed and ready to go...to a storage unit. 

Some people are now confused as we were very excited to be moving into an apartment that was much bigger than our own. Unfortunately, the apartment manager was NOT  very nice lady. We found out, after we decided to not live there, from a friend that when her boyfriend lived there it was a year long headache/nightmare. In the end we felt good about the decision...well as good as we could anyway. We decided I would move up here alone as Russell already has two jobs in Lubbock and could continue to work and save money. I would move in with my parents and he would move in with his thus cutting back on our living expenses. So when I have to tell people, "I graduated from college, I'm pregnant, I have no home, I'm living with my parents here while my husband lives with his parents there, and I've had absolutely no luck finding a home to buy or a job." I feel depressed. Not to mention that I probably won't see my husband for the entire month...adding to the depression.

This month is our two year anniversary, he asked off but it doesn't look likely that he will get it...depressing. All in all this month is a little rough. HOWEVER, today I got to spend some alone time with my mom and I've felt loads better. I haven't said anything to anyone about feeling down but my mom knew because, well, she's my mom. So she took me to Hobby Lobby (this always makes me happy, now that I don't work there) and we walked around looking at Fall and Christmas decorations eating a bag of chocolate covered pretzels. We finished the bag off half way through the store, right about the time I found the cutest wall stickers for Baby Bear's nursery. They're jungle animals in bright, fun prints, and I used a 40% off coupon so my day was pretty much made. We bought another bag of chocolate covered pretzels on our way out the door and finished most of them before we made the 5 minute drive home. Something else that probably helped was the fact that I actually put on cute clothes today and put some make up on...this is rare. If it's not Sunday I typically don't bother with anything. 

Anyhow, it's only the 2nd day without my sweet Russell but it feels like it's been weeks. Maybe this month will speed up....I hope so!

This picture doesn't do the cuteness justice! The elephant is all spotted with striped ears.
The giraffe has vertical crooked stripes and the hippo has squiggly horizontal stripes.
At $18, I consider this a steal! :)