New job, new home, big adjustments!

At the end of September I finally found a job, and it is a good job! I have been working for 2 weeks now at the University of Phoenix and it is going pretty well! I found out that I got the job on a Thursday afternoon, and the wanted me to start on Monday! I was so excited, and yet so scared. We share a car, so logistics were a problem, we had 4 days to find an apartment that was either walking distance, or on the bus route from either my workplace or Adam's school, get Zander and Aidan pulled out of their current schools and registered into new ones, but of course we had to know where we would be living before we could do that, and they had to be able to start before 8 A.M. monday morning. We also had to move in that time. Thursday and Friday were a blur or looking at apartments. We finally decided on one that was walking distance from Adam's school, and I rushed to get the boys registered into their new schools. I actually got all of that accomplished, and we were at the U-Haul place on Friday afternoon getting a trailer to move our stuff when I got a call saying that a DUI from Washington had come up on my background check and I wouldn't be able to start work on Monday...... I am not even kidding!

So we just went on and moved into the apartment and I took that extra week to unpack boxes that had been in storage for over a year... it was like Christmas seeing all of our stuff again! We are now moved in and as settled as we can possibly be! Aidan is happy in his new school. He joined the Zoology club at his school, they meet twice a week after school and people from the Phoenix zoo bring in different animals for them to study and interact with. Zander is in a new preschool right by the apartment. He is having a pretty rough time with being put into preschool at all, and is having some big issues.... he has been going full time for 2 weeks now and refuses to eat, drink, or use the bathroom anytime he is there. This means that he is starving when he gets home, and he often wets his pants because he just won't use the bathroom. I am kind of beside myself on this issue. I cry all the way to work after dropping him off in the mornings, it is heartbreaking to leave him there, screaming for me, but I HAVE to do it, and he WILL get used to it in time! I am going to keep a good attitude if it kills me!! The one thing he does do at daycare is take long naps. This is not a good thing because Zander has not been a napper for about 2 years, so he is now awake every night until at least 11, and it is a constant battle of punishing him for getting out of bed over and over..... but how can you get mad at a face like this?

The apartment we got is great. It is so nice to have a place of our own! It is a 2 bedroom apartment, but we don't consider it small, just cozy! The boys bedroom is big, there is plenty of room for Zander's bed, the bunk beds, and all the other stuff that kids think they need :) We had such a great time setting up all of the kid's stuff! Zander has had hours of fun driving his cars on the street map rug in his room, and I love how organized their room is..... until Zander has been in there for about 10 minutes anyways... how is it that 1 little 3 year old can make this room look like a tornado just went through it so fast? Thank goodness for IKEA and their organizational furniture! We put pictures on the toy bins so that Zander can clean up all by himself now, and he even gets the toys into the correct bins!

My second favorite place to be..... the first? The pool/jacuzzi of course!