Hello everyone-
As I write this today we are at a great bungalo in White Salmon. We're drinking wine, eating home made bbq, Ella's zonked out on the couch, and we're looking back over the past few days marveling that we survived.
As you saw in the last post Anna got very ill (swine flu?) on Sunday AM and ended up missing both Sunday and Monday nights of work... her last 2 nights. She (believe it or not) was bummed to miss her last night at work, but she was too zonked out to go in. Also, to add insult to injury, guess who got what Anna had? Yup! Ella. On Tuesday she came down with whatever Anna had, and was completely miserable... she was walking around the house going "ouwie mama, ouwie mama." Talk about breaking one's heart. The kid lived on a combination of tylenol and motrin for 3 days...
So there we were trying to move out of the house, pack for an 8 week trip, finish residency, all while taking care of a sick baby (and mama). Needless to say I was running around like the proverbial chicken sans head. On Tuesday, Anna was completely unable to do a thing as Ella wouldn't let her put her down... so those of you who know just how opposite Anna and I are in terms of cleanliness, imagine poor Anna sitting on the couch with a burning up baby and a husband running around the house litterally stuffing stuff in our car. It wasn't pretty.
So thank goodness the movers did all the packing and moving, which freed us up to plan for our trip. I've never so badly in my life wished for a Hummer with 2 rocket boxes on the roof. Our car is stuffed to the gills... with what, I have no idea... but apparently we need it ALL for the next 8 weeks.
For all of you who tried to contact us over the past few days (Justin, Keren, my mom, Janice, Baba, Leslie/Tamara, and Dean... and anyone else) we are sorry to not call you back. As you can tell from this blog posting, we didn't have much time to call back.
So, we finally got out of the house today... the house has been cleaned... by a saintly woman and her assistant. Most of the holes are patched and re-painted ("most" being a bit of an over statement). We officially do not live at 6525 NE Skidmore St... in fact we are currently homeless (except for the fact that we have much of the contents of our previous home stuffed in our car).
As the mantra we kept repeating promised "we will get through this... we will get through this" came true, we are officially done, and on our vacation.
I've added some pictures of the craziness. You'll see the house pre and post move, and the hotel we stayed in. For some strange reason Anna and I thought we'd be able to stay in the house while the move was on... "we'll just sleep in the blow up mattress... it'll be fun," yeah right!
Anna takes her boards on Monday... please pray to who ever you pray to that she passes that sucker. She hasn't cracked a book in weeks... and every time we go to Jim and Patty's, Laura's there reading, taking notes, and scaring the bajeezus out of Anna that she's going to fail.
Next we head to MI for some mid-west fun...
Take care...
Matt and Anna and Ella
As I write this today we are at a great bungalo in White Salmon. We're drinking wine, eating home made bbq, Ella's zonked out on the couch, and we're looking back over the past few days marveling that we survived.
As you saw in the last post Anna got very ill (swine flu?) on Sunday AM and ended up missing both Sunday and Monday nights of work... her last 2 nights. She (believe it or not) was bummed to miss her last night at work, but she was too zonked out to go in. Also, to add insult to injury, guess who got what Anna had? Yup! Ella. On Tuesday she came down with whatever Anna had, and was completely miserable... she was walking around the house going "ouwie mama, ouwie mama." Talk about breaking one's heart. The kid lived on a combination of tylenol and motrin for 3 days...
So there we were trying to move out of the house, pack for an 8 week trip, finish residency, all while taking care of a sick baby (and mama). Needless to say I was running around like the proverbial chicken sans head. On Tuesday, Anna was completely unable to do a thing as Ella wouldn't let her put her down... so those of you who know just how opposite Anna and I are in terms of cleanliness, imagine poor Anna sitting on the couch with a burning up baby and a husband running around the house litterally stuffing stuff in our car. It wasn't pretty.
So thank goodness the movers did all the packing and moving, which freed us up to plan for our trip. I've never so badly in my life wished for a Hummer with 2 rocket boxes on the roof. Our car is stuffed to the gills... with what, I have no idea... but apparently we need it ALL for the next 8 weeks.
For all of you who tried to contact us over the past few days (Justin, Keren, my mom, Janice, Baba, Leslie/Tamara, and Dean... and anyone else) we are sorry to not call you back. As you can tell from this blog posting, we didn't have much time to call back.
So, we finally got out of the house today... the house has been cleaned... by a saintly woman and her assistant. Most of the holes are patched and re-painted ("most" being a bit of an over statement). We officially do not live at 6525 NE Skidmore St... in fact we are currently homeless (except for the fact that we have much of the contents of our previous home stuffed in our car).
As the mantra we kept repeating promised "we will get through this... we will get through this" came true, we are officially done, and on our vacation.
I've added some pictures of the craziness. You'll see the house pre and post move, and the hotel we stayed in. For some strange reason Anna and I thought we'd be able to stay in the house while the move was on... "we'll just sleep in the blow up mattress... it'll be fun," yeah right!
Anna takes her boards on Monday... please pray to who ever you pray to that she passes that sucker. She hasn't cracked a book in weeks... and every time we go to Jim and Patty's, Laura's there reading, taking notes, and scaring the bajeezus out of Anna that she's going to fail.
Next we head to MI for some mid-west fun...
Take care...
Matt and Anna and Ella
my internet connection is too slow to add pics... so here's a link to a Picassa album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mattdowl/TheMove?authkey=Gv1sRgCMeHofPDztiCIw#
m.... we're done!
