Three Days- One Nap

We are in week one here of Auntie Jes' Adventures. Here are the highlights:

• HB doesn't like naps. Well to be fair today was abnormal I guess because Dad came home when we were close to starting our nap. 
• HB is adorable. He argues and says no a lot and refused to get on the potty 6 out of 10 times. But just like Urkel I am wearing him down. 
• When one hears wheels on the bus from across the house, one must sing along. (editor's note: they have changed all the words to my childhood songs-three of the four different versions of the wheels on the bus I heard this week did not even have the wipers verse. What the heck! What do those buses do in the rain?)
• I really don't swear when I am around these muffins. Which is good because just last week I was accused of corrupting the newest College employee with my naughty lyrics. 
• RC is THE CUTEST baby in the world. He just smiles and farts and smiles. He was just happy to be invited to the Paw Patrol, PJ Mask, dinosaur crossover experience we were having in the living room. 
• Sitting on the couch with one baby sleeping in the dried up spit up on my shoulder and the other sleeping one's cold feet stabbing into my side is pretty great :)

I am re-learning my way around here again too-it is all coming back to me now. One con-it took me 20 minutes round trip to pop into the store quick. Everything is no longer in a 5 square mile speck. I did find that the local library system is waaaaaaaaay bigger. It stretches all over the place and they had Jodi Picoult's newest book available! I have stolen my cousin's library card for all my library needs. I got a book on CD today for my commute now that it is no longer 3 minutes, printed off my passport renewal paperwork and surfed the web at my current local library today. I still love libraries! 

Welcome to the Mitten!

I moved to Wisconsin in a Durango and a Neon. More clothes than anything else was packed into those cars. It took a 10ft truck and the entire Hondog to get back to the Mitten. And I still had to leave items on the curb- unplanned of course. Yes that is the amazing sectional couch I have loved for years. But it was falling apart and part of it just turned to dust as we carried it out of the house. It was time. 

If you have ever wanted a laugh think about me driving down I-94 towing a Honda while driving a box truck full of fishing poles (yes I brought all 7) and so many things that I categorized as "collectibles" so I didn't have to throw them away. It still seems like I own waaaaaay to much stuff, but I have another 12 months to thin out the items I moved into something more manageable. Minimalism is not easy in our culture, if it were more people would do it.  

I tried to donate and recycle as much as I could from the Newbury House but I still ended up with a lot of trash. I was disappointed in myself but I need to remember the amount I did find new homes for and that did not end up in a landfill. I will work hard with the last bits as well, but many of these items I have assigned some sentimental value. But stuff is just stuff and I have Pinterested some ways to keep these memories without keeping the physical stuff. 

For those if you just tuning in-I have started phase two of my post 30 life. I have moved myself back to Michigan to start operation Auntie Jes Day Care to HB and RC-the world's most adorable nephews. While working on this new task I am also going to start the tiny house in earnest. I have a plan and an idea for exactly what I want and now I have my brother's garage of tools to help get me there. 

So for now I have learned to love PJ Masks and I am soaking up all the baby snuggles I can get :)