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Lindsay Metcalf
on May 22 2013 - 06:00 AM
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on May 21 2013 - 06:00 AM
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This thought came to me this weekend as Niko learned how to crawl. Not scoot like he had been doing, but text-book crawling.
Our house is just not right for a toddler. We live in a back to front split-level house with three levels of stairs. I LOVE the open floor plan, but those stairs have got to go.
It was my decision to wait until Niko was born and then move. I grew up with a very sick little brother who was in and out of the hospital until he was four. My brother was born with severe hearing loss and bad allergies/lung problems. I vividly remember on two separate occasions telling him goodbye and that I would see him in heaven. (My brother is perfectly fine now – thanks to many surgeries/therapy paid for by the Easter Seals.)
I was afraid that there would be complications like this with Niko - hearing problems follow the men in my family. I figured we could stay in our current house and make it work with one income if things turned out for the worse.
So far, Niko has avoided the hearing problems of my family. He failed his first two hearing tests, but passed the 6 week test – he is scheduled for another test when he turns 9 months old. He reacts to sounds so I am not really worried… my brother did not when he was Niko’s age.
I must say it is… challenging trying to prep a house for sale with an active 7 month old. We have to find someone to watch Niko while we pack. We have to have Niko go to a friends house while we paint or do anything else “toxic”. The idea of trying to keep a perfect “show house” with two cats and a baby is almost comical.
I’m a pack-rat, there I have said it.There is a reason why I have not moved in 9 years…. the junk I have collected is amazing. I had a garage sale about 2 years ago that helped, but I still could not park EITHER car in the garage. So I had to get serious about de-junking the house. We filled a 16-cubic foot dumpster in two days. We donated over 15 bags of clothes, kitchenware and toys/junk to the local charity. We had one of those 16’ POD containers delivered and filled. After a month of hard work – my garage and basement are cleared!
We still have quite a bit of work left to do, but we are closer to getting the house on the market. We hope to have a shiny for sale sign in our front yard by the end of the month. Then it’s time to look for a new house…. Yikes!
Anyone else wish they had moved BEFORE your bundle of joy came? Any advise on how to move with kids?
Yep. We sold our house last time, with 7 kids, and I was pregnant again. I felt like I had been run over by a mac truck most of the time, and trying to stay on top of the house, and dragging kids w/ us to look for another house. Luckily, we found another house, sold our house to the first person who saw it, and did the move, all within a month. Still have a few boxes to unpack after 3 years though, lol.I've moved twice after having a baby - first with a 3 week old and second with a 2 week old. Not fun, very exhausting. I have vowed to never do it again - having a baby or moving! Just get yourself a bunch of gates and let him go!Sold 2 houses with babies. It's so challenging! It has certainly made me clear out years of junk each time we moved. Best thing to happen to me, although it was torture for all of us. I would suggest keeping laundry baskets handy in your car and just grab toys and diapers and stuff and dump them in the baskets when a showing is scheduled. Have a spare diaper bag and snack bag in the car always so you can run out fast and not forget something. Best of luck!
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