moving with children

[flea]

Frankly, I don't recommend it. It would be better if you could set them to "off" for a couple of days, or at least to "chill." Instead, mine are set to "neurotic verging on freakout," which sadly is also my setting right now.

We are having a quiet moment at the moment; Dillo is having a much-needed nap (his neurotic is manifesting in terrible naps and waking every 2 hours in the night, which is not helping my level of stress as you can imagine); Casper needs a nap but is watching Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers (which she randomly ADORES) on Youtube; mr. flea is doing revisions; I just cleaned the hell out of Casper's room and if I could keep her out of it until the movers come at 9am tomorrow that would be great.

At some point mr. flea needs to run 1 zillion errands (pay public library fine, stuff to household hazmat disposal, run to Goodwill, buy some milk and for crying out loud me some razor blades (so I can shave my legs, not kill myself)). I get to move furniture and boxes around for trash/recycling night, and eviscerate the compost pile into the yard waste bin per landlady's request. Then we disassemble furniture and pack the computer, VCR, and dehumidifier. Whee!

Comments

[nestra.livejournal.com]

*hugs* It is totally stressful. I am sort of glad husband and I have only ourselves to worry about, not any children or pets. And even with that, we're often on the brink of "neurotic verging on freakout."

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

We only had to move across town, but I remember my grandmother taking us for the day whilst most of the moving action was going on. She took us to see a movie called Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller. I'm pretty sure I thought it was a lot funnier at the time than my poor grandother did.

[serrana.livejournal.com]

You have my sympathies -- we moved with just Herself three times before she was two. By the time we were done we were really good at it. We also were really, really motivated to settle down and not move again for as long as humanly possible.

[fiorituranotte.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the the move! Moving is so stressful, and I can't imagine how much more stressful it would be with two kids.