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Tony and I are spending spring break painting, reorganizing, and assembling IKEA furniture (yikes!). I can’t wait to share our progress with you. In the meantime, I’m sharing a post from the archives that was originally published in July 2009. If you’re feeling the itch to move, try these tips to make your old place [...]
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I’m back! Hopefully for good this time. Has it really only been seven days? It feels like we’ve been in our new home for at least a month. Here’s what we’ve been up to. We unpacked in a single weekend, which is no small feat since I’m a former journalist and I’m married to an [...]
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We’re moving Friday. I have a 6-week-old baby who will not sleep unless I’m holding him. I’ve been running a low-grade fever since yesterday morning. My husband came down with it last night. I can only hope that the baby won’t get sick, because the last thing I need right now is a feverish 6-week-old. [...]
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Last weekend, Tony and I finally moved into an apartment in the city where he’ll be teaching this fall (and hopefully spring). We were very lucky to have lots of help from both of our families. We’ve only been married for a little over two years now, but in that time we’ve built a frugal [...]
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We spent Thursday and Friday scouting out apartments in the Fort Wayne area. After a lot of frustration and stress, we found a place! It’s in a small town outside Fort Wayne. Two bedrooms, two full bathrooms, washer/dryer hookups, and a reasonable pet policy. And the rent is almost half what we budgeted! Our application [...]
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There is nothing I hate more than the instability of moving, and I especially hate the long, arduous process of finding a new place to live. I’m not usually a procrastinator when it comes to this sort of thing. But we’d just moved, spent two weeks in Europe, and I was struggling with morning sickness [...]
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A few weeks ago, I wrote briefly about how Tony accepted an adjunct teaching position at a small college near Fort Wayne, Indiana. At the time, the position was only offering two courses. They’ve since offered him another class, which means a tiny bit more money, but the pay is still unbearably low with no [...]
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We’ve been back since last Wednesday, but I’ve been dragging my feet about getting back to my routine. Vacation was wonderful, of course, but exhausting. I spent a lot of time looking for a place to sit down as we toured the cities. But my goal was to let my pregnancy interfere with our plans [...]
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After a long week and an even longer weekend, we have arrived in Indiana. The truck is unloaded, but nothing is unpacked. I’m resting today and trying to get us situated. Tony took a road trip about 3 hours away to interview for a teaching job. Think good thoughts for him today! I’m going to [...]
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