Well, a lot has happened in the last
month, but I guess I will start with the move, which was madness.
June 1st
The movers came and took all our
furniture and the kitchen items.
The rest of our stuff we wanted to move
ourselves because the Army will pay you to move your own stuff so
it's a nice way to earn some extra money.
Also, most of our stuff was still in
boxes anyways.
June 2nd
I drove to Jefferson City and took my
Marriage and Family Therapy licensure exam.
It was really hard.
I was so happy to be done with it.
I will find out if I passed sometime in
August.
June 3rd
The lovely ladies I met in Ft Leonard
Wood thew a little baby shower for me and a couple other ladies that
are pregnant as well.
It was very sweet and a lot of fun.
June 4th
I drove up to Columbia Hospital for my
follow up appointment.
I still had (and have) contractions but
they are more irregular now.
The doctor said my cervix still looks
good so I am good to move and to fly.
June 5th
My midwife came for a final prenatal
appointment.
I passed my glucose test, but I am
anemic. Bring on the iron supplements.
I am going to miss my midwife.
June 6th
Stephen had his graduation that morning.
I wasn't able to go because I still had
too much packing to do.
The housing person came to inspect the
house at 3 but we were way behind schedule so she offered to come
back at 5.
Stephen had rented a 17 ft u-haul and
it's a good thing we didn't have anymore stuff and that Stephen is
apparently a real life tetris master because that truck was
completely packed.
We passed our home inspection and
headed out on our way to Clarksville, TN.
I drove the car with the dogs in the
back and Bagheera in a crate on the passenger seat.
Stephen drove the U-haul with Giselle
and Tiger Lilly on the passenger seat (they were in a crate but
Stephen of course felt bad for them and let them out)
About 20 minutes into the drive Willow
threw up all over the backseat, and then an hour later threw up
again, that was fun.
We drove about halfway to Clarksville
(3.5 hours) and stopped and stayed at a hotel in Mt Vernon, Illinois.
June 7th
We headed out first thing in the
morning for Clarksville.
I was stressed out the whole time that
one of the dogs was going to throw up again.
Bagheera decided he had enough of
driving and howled the entire 3.5 hour drive.
Also the AC stopped working the last
half of the drive so I had to open the windows (not fun when going 70
on the highway).
This of course made Bagheera howl all
the louder.
So when we got to Clarksville at noon I
was not in the best of moods.
We drove straight to our house that we
had been told would be finished and ready for us to move in.
I about had a breakdown.
The fence wasn't built.
There was no front door.
The walls still needed another coat of
paint.
The carpet wasn't in yet.
The hardwood floors weren't finished.
There were no door knobs.
Stephen called the realtor and he said
the house would be done for sure by 3pm the next day and that the
builders would pay for us to stay in a hotel for the night.
I didn't believe the realtor at all.
There was no way they could do all the work in such a short period of
time.
But we had no choice but to hope they
were right.
June 8th
We hung out at the hotel till we had to
check out at 1:00 and then we went and parked at the neighborhood
community center and pool that is just down the street from our house
and waited till 3pm.
While we were waiting Stephen was
walking the dogs and he came back to the car in a hurry and said
“There is a baby bunny in the pool!”
So I ran over to the pool with him
(there was no one else there) and I realized that the bunny couldn't
get out and would drown of exhaustion.
Stephen, the animal hero, of course had
to do something.
He grabbed the pool skimmer but it was
missing the net part and couldn't get the bunny with it.
While he was trying, the bunny swam near
one of the vents on the side of the pool and got sucked in!
I started freaking out.
Stephen quickly opened the lid over the
vent and we saw the bunny getting tossed around in the water
drowning.
I was horrified but yelled at Stephen
not to touch it because I was afraid it would bite him and give him
rabies or something.
So Stephen quickly took off his shirt
and grabbed the bunny and put it down on the cement.
It was very dramatic.
The bunny was breathing but seemed to
be in shock so Stephen picked it up and put it far from the pool in
the grass.
I really wanted to keep it but since we
were leaving the next day for California, that really wouldn't work.
So 3pm came and we walked down the
street to our house and got a walk through from the builder and
amazingly enough, it was all done and looked great!
Stephen and some guys that the realtor
knows unloaded the U-haul into the garage in about an hour.
The pet sitter we hired came over so I
could give her instructions on the pets (the dogs were going to stay
in the backyard and cats were staying in the house).
Right as we were about to leave to take
the U-haul in, our neighbors let their dogs into their backyard.
This was when we discovered that
unfortunately the neighbors have 2 little dogs which is bad because
Willow has lately developed an aggression for little dogs (why, I
don't know) and went nuts barking at the fence. So we knew we would
have to do something to keep her from barking all week while we were
away (we have a spray collar but she will still bark with it on).
On our way back from dropping of the
U-haul we picked up a shock collar.
I felt really bad putting it on her but
it worked.
Then we packed for our trip to Napa.
June 9th
Flew to Napa at 7:45am
More to come on our Napa trip soon!
