July 30, 2022

Moving in 5 Days (Kid Blogger’s Account of the Moving Process)

My mom thinks moving is very stressful. What’s worse is that mom can’t cook any meals from home, so we have to get fast food A LOT. She sometimes still cooks from home. But probably not anymore until we move because the movers come Tuesday, and it is Sunday. So we are very close to moving, which I’m really excited because I’m going to have my own room for the first time ever. It will be a man cave, a football one, because I really like football–tackle football. My Grandma is coming over to unpack because for some reason she […]
July 12, 2022

The Whole Truth About Moving Stress & Anxiety

This is my whole truth about coping with moving stress. I am not doing an amazing job. No, I am not even doing a good job, not even a decent job. In fact, let’s be real. I am at a fairly low point. Notice I did not title this article “how to handle moving stress.” That was on purpose. I would have no business writing that. Why am I so stressed? I don’t fully know. As a whole, this move, which started out extremely shaky, is going MUCH better now. Finding a house was a nightmare. But that’s done. We […]
May 13, 2022

Moving Checklist For The Perfect Move, 2 Months Out

Now, ya’ll, I say this with love because this IS a moving checklist for the perfect move. However, it is so important that you accept up front that the perfect move will never ever happen. So no, moves aren’t perfect. However, you never know what it is that will go wrong, so you always plan for perfection. The plan and the checklist are for the (laughably) perfect move. Just for your sanity, remember that it won’t actually be perfect. We are just going to hope that whatever goes wrong will at least be funny. Our family is currently 60-80 days […]
April 24, 2022

The 16 Steps of the Moving Process

This is another delightful year of moving for us. We’ve only moved a billion times, but it still feels like a daunting process. Any large task HAS to be divided up into smaller, more manageable steps for me. It helps everything, even moving, feel more doable. It’s that whole eating an elephant one bite at a time thing. What a gross example though… First, there are the sixteen steps of moving out. Then there are the sixteen steps of unpacking and settling in. Today I’m only going to worry about the moving out part, as it comes first. Tackle one […]
April 18, 2022

Top 6 Must See Places to Visit in Monterey, California

“What are the best places to visit in Monterey on our vacation?” This is one of the questions I get asked the most. I lived in Monterey for a couple of years not long ago. Most people I know live in the eastern U.S., so when they take a trip to middle/northern California, they ask me what to see. For all things Monterey vacay, I’m your girl. There is no better place to vacation than Monterey, California, in my opinion. They have everything in California: mountains, beaches, incredible sea life unique to the Pacific coast, shopping, beautiful weather all year […]
April 5, 2022

Best Day Trip Ever: The Friends Experience in D.C.

The Friends Experience is in Washington, D.C. in 2022 from March through June. It’s in several other cities this year too, and I’ll tell you more about that below. Last year when I went to New York City with my cousins, we were hoping to do the Friends Experience, but we were short on time. Then I found out that this thing travels around the country. You don’t always have to be in New York to enjoy the Friends Experience. I’m going to tell you exactly what to expect, to help you decide if it’s worth a day trip for […]
March 2, 2022

How to Find Extra Minutes to Work on Your Project

I have a problem. You see, I am woefully behind on prepping my house for this move, and I find myself in need of extra minutes. We all get the same twenty-four hours for every single day. No matter who you are. The day is the same. There are twenty-four hours, and no one gets extra minutes. But I am going to need some extra. I want to list our house to sell in May, and that requires me to comb through each room of the house. Our house is over-packed with stuff. Everywhere you look there is clutter. Most […]
February 14, 2022

Ta-Daaaa! Before & After Photos From Cleaning Out the Storage Room

I have this lengthy list of things we have to do to get our house ready for the housing market. BUT it is such a wonderful feeling to have my second storage room DONE. So of course, I made a video about it. Daniel told me I should make one of those time-lapse videos where it shows you cleaning in super speed, so I made one and put it on the ends of this update video: I’m also learning more about how to make decent YouTube videos….. Sorry, I did not learn in time to not film the ceiling while […]

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