Today is Sunday and we drove here on Wednesday! Thank you to my Mom for being gracious enough to bring a truck and trailer over to help us move to avoid the high cost of Uhaul or the like. Driving from Portland to Sandpoint is a long drive when you have two young children, a dog and a cat along for the ride. We made it with no major catastrophes or anything so I am very thankful for that.
The trailer is still sitting out in front of the house...packed! Alec won't be here for another day and there is no way that my Mom and I can unload the furniture on our own. We are all fine though. Jetta has her own room and it has her bed in it already...she gets a bunk bed!! Just wait for the posts about me complaining about the broken bones from her jumping off the top bunk. I'm sleeping on a hide away bed and Brielle is sleeping in her oh so comfy little recliner chair...sometimes she gets to sleep with Mommy (it just depends on how hot it has been at night).
My Mom and I stopped at the Country Mercantile just north of Pasco and picked up a bunch of fruit so we can start our canning and storing food adventure. The last two days we have spent canning peaches, freezing berries, making jams and we even got a cherry cobbler made in the midst of all this!
Although, we are not sure if we canned the peaches properly. We followed instructions we found on several different websites but we are just not sure they are sealed properly. We are going to wait and find out. They smelled so good while putting it all together though!
The other news is that Jetta has lost her first tooth! She was so excited that it was wiggly as she called it. It became so loose that I ended up just pulling it instead of risking Jetta swallowing it because yet again she isn't paying attention to what she is doing. Here is a picture shortly after we pulled the tooth:
The Tooth Fairy visited that night and gave her almost two dollars in change! You have to realize Jetta loves change, she has a big glass jar that she gets to fill with her change that eventually goes into her savings account. I love that this kid is excited about saving her money!
I have also started on my weight loss adventure as well. I am counting my calories, watching what I'm eating and starting to exercise. My Mom and I have made a pact to work out together and hold each other accountable, which is a nice change. We went on our first big walk today and was a successful one. We didn't want to push ourselves to hard since neither of us are in the greatest shape. We went for a walk along Sandpoint's long bridge. We took both kids and one of my Mom's dogs. We didn't make it the whole way because the dog actually got really tired (he is a 5 month old German Shepard) and neither of us were going to try to take on the task of carrying him back to the car if he refused to walk the whole way.
Total we walked a little over 4 miles. Even though my side was hurting during half of it I felt really good and it was nice to do something with my Mom and my kids. Next time we are going to go a little earlier in the day so as not to be in the heat as much and we are going to bring more water for not only us but for the dog as well!
So far everything is going well, granted it has only been a few days but if you start out on the correct foot then there is no stopping what you can achieve in the future. My next goal is to set up some sort of couponing system so that we can save money on our grocery bill since there are a lot of mouths to feed.
I'm hoping that my next blog will be about how I have set up my couponing system/binders. I have read a few blogs that have inspired me and I believe are great ideas. I might combine a few things I have seen and see if they work. If I get permission from those blogs authors I will share their links on my blog as well so that if any of you want to follow them and get inspired you can as well.
I told myself I was going to bed early tonight and here it is 10:15pm and still awake. Good night for now and hope to keep going.
