Chronicles of The Christensens: The Beginning of the Bend

The boys snuggled at the hotel in Boise

I will start with the travel. Or I will start with the goodbye. It was hard, and still when I think about it tears quickly spring to my eyes. It was so busy in our lives leading up to pulling out of the drive way. Though, I thanked my parents for all they did, I certainly intended to say more, but truly could not do it. I am still finding it so hard to truly express the gratitude that is within my heart, perhaps because they did more than I can thank, or just because I cry when I think about it. Either way, I hope they know how much it means that they opened up their home to us for a very long time, with little complaint, and loved our boys every day they were there. It has been a hard thing for me to make drastic changes in the boys lives. I know they are resilient, and I know they will be fine, but, I feel badly if they can't express their questions and confusion as well as they would like. So, needless to say, I cried, and actually could have cried more, but I could not let myself dwell on it.

sweet notes left on the boxes the girls in Terryville helped me pack up

The drive. The drive actually went very very well. I hoped so, since our last experience seemed so nightmarish it seemed slim that it could match that. But, it was actually so much better than I thought. They boys slept well. They also seemed to just plain handle the drive better. We split the drive in half stopping in Boise to sleep. Sam left at 2:45am to get to the house for people to meet and help us unpack the truck, before he left he whispered, "l love you, the next time I see you, I will see you at home." I smiled as I heard the door shut quietly. The second day drive was a breeze, they slept a lot of it, and we only had to stop once. It was great. It was strange pulling up to the house knowing this was our new house, and let's see what we have to work with. It was actually pretty exciting to see how much space we had, and overwhelming to see just how many boxes we had to fill that space right now. I fill we have our room pretty squared away, the kitchen, the boys rooms are close, and we are closing in on that one area that everything tends to migrate during a move in process, it is where all the stuff ends up that you don't want to deal with, or you don't know what to do with yet. It is pretty funny though, no matter what box we open, or how it is labeled without a doubt there are still toys in that box. There are literally toys in every box.

These are just the first pictures that we took of the house getting in, so I will definitely putting more up as things are more together, but the pile of empty boxes doesn't quite get me too excited to break out the camera.

Sam starts work tomorrow. As of right now, he does not know where he is going, what time he is going, and what he is doing. It has been great having him around these first days settling in, it would have been so much harder had he not been. So, we will see what I can do with settling myself in more, and helping the boys transition in their new home now that he will be gone in the days.