Our lift has arrived

I am sooooo tired!!!  What a day.  I do not recommend doing this to anyone!!  I guess it’s no different than moving anywhere but for some reason today was NUTS!!

So it started at 8am.  That’s when 2 friends came to help me.  The truck showed up around 9 and they unloaded until 12.  From 12-1 they opened up the beds and set them up and opened the packing on the couches.  My grandmother was here to help also.  She was good.  She held he baby and put her to sleep and helped with stuff like that.  Then, when they all left, she helped with the unpacking.  We did some of the kitchen boxes and I set up the kids’ beds so they had somewhere to sleep for the night. 

I was all excited that I was getting my fridge and my washer and dryer b/c I’ve had no washer and dryer and the fridge that I have is tiny.  Well, my friends who came over informed me that I was not allowed to so much as plug the fridge in b/c it would void the warranty.  I was going to have to wait WEEKS until someone would come out and do it for me.  So I e-mailed Eric and he called them right away and the woman said they were very busy and would try to squeeze us in this week.  Two minutes later, before Eric could even e-mail me with the news of this, she called me and told me someone would be here within half an hour.  He came and he was amazing!  Our fridge, although it fits in the kitchen and is now plugged in, didn’t fit in the designated area.  So it’s kind of just floating there.  There is a pipe coming out of the floor that has to be cut so we can get the fridge in.  I’m not sure it’s going to happen.  We’ll see.  It might have to stay put. 

When the guys moved the washer and dryer in, the dryer didn’t fit in the small door to the laundry room.  When this guy came, he took the door off, it was no problem, and the dryer fit!  it’s also an awkward fit but it’s in there!!  YAY!!  He hooked that up for me also and we’re in business to do laundry.  No more schlepping it to the neighbors.

So the one error that I made when the movers were unloading the truck at lightning speed was that we have a wall unit that has our tv in it in the living room and we have an armoire that goes in our room that’s meant to have our clothes in it.  These both look VERY similar when they are all wrapped up in their packing stuff.  So, needless to say, I confused them and I had the guys carry the wrong one up 3 flights of stairs.  They then had to carry it back down and carry the right one up.  They were NOT happy with me AT ALL!  The foreman on the job was a doll.  He said these things happen.  The very nice Russian gentelman that had to do the carrying said to me, “ma, at choshevet she ze kilo echad?!”  Yeah, he wasn’t too happy. 

That was the only disaster of the day.  Otherwise, I think everything that went onto the truck came off the truck.  It’s hard to tell even with the lists.  The stickers were falling off and all over the place and it was hard to keep track.  I counted the tvs and computers and stuff like that.  So the expensive stuff we have.

So the house is a MESS.  The vaccuum cleaner came wit the wrong kind of plug.  I think it was the right kind of we lived in England.  I was dying to vaccuum a little.  The very nice man who hooked up the appliances changed it for me.  Savta asked him to and he did.  Go Savta!

So at around 5 Keren woke up from her nap (in her crib!) and Savta went home and I took the kids out for pizza.  I couldn’t have sat them down at the kitchen table even if I had anything to eat here b/c of the mess.  We came home and I got them clean and into bed pretty quickly.  They are glad to have their things.

School went okay today.  We tried dropping Ben off before Talia and that didn’t go too well.  Ben wound up crying today!!  I am sure it didn’t last long.  He was VERY happy when I picked him up as usual and excited about the necklace he made at school.  Talia didn’t cry and she said she had a good day.  She said she isn’t going to cry anymore!  We’ll see about that.  She also said that Ulpan started today and that she didn’t like it b/c her teacher doesn’t speak English.  Eric said what kind of an ulpan teacher doens’t speak English?  So we are sure that she does and that she hasn’t told the kids so they won’t talk to her in English.  Makes sense to me.

Tomorrow I am going to go to a friend (actually Robin Zemel who is a relative through marriage) and see what she has to give us in the way of storage.  She told me that she has plenty that we can take for the year or something like that.  I can’t remember.

As I am writing this Keren has been trying to roll from her back to her stomach and SHE JUST DID!!  I can’t believe it!!

That’s all for now.  Off to bed.  Very busy day tomorrow unpacking and trying to make some order of my house here.  OY!  Only 5 days until Eric comes home…