Well we did it. After years of talking about it, telling people "one day", and wondering in our minds if it would ever happen, we have moved to Boise.........the Treasure Valley........Meridian......whatever you want to call it. For those of you that don't know that backstory, and for the sake of archiving our adventure for Jordan's later years when she reads this I will make it short. Back in March we sold our house. At the time we were looking for another house in Moscow. One night Jamie and I sat down and decided this was it. If we wanted to move to Boise it was now or never. So we found a rental in Moscow and Jamie started the difficult task of trying to find a job in Boise (I was able to transfer my current job). Surprisingly in our move from our old house to the rental Jordan didnt' skip a beat. She could care less where she was as long as her schedule wasn't interrupted (note this statement as you find later in this post things were and are quite different in the move to Boise). There were some difficult times in the months following as we lived out of boxes and tried to stay cool in a non air conditioned rental. Then it happened. Jamie interviewed for a job at the Idaho Bureau of Laboratories and was offered the position. This is where the tale begins....
It was Friday, August 5th. My phone rang around 9 am with a excited Jamie on the other end. "I got the job!" she said.
"Are you serious?" I responded. I was excited as ever, though in the back of my mind all I could think about was holy crap we have a lot to do.
"I start the day after Labor day."
Ok that's a lot better than two weeks, but still, closing on a house in four weeks will take a miracle. We decided to make this work we had to go to Boise that weekend and look for a house. I called Grandma Barb to see if Jordan could stay with her since spending 11 hours in the car over the weekend plus all the driving around looking at houses didn't fit into her schedule. Obviously she said yes. So when Jamie arrived home we headed off to McCall, planning to stay there the night and arrive at our realtors office at 10:30 the next morning in Boise.
Saturday was a marathon to say the least. We started the house search at 10:30 am with a stack of house listings thicker than Tolstoy's War and Peace. The day wore on as we went from house to house. There were some we liked, a lot we didn't. With no stops for lunch, bathroom, or beverages we powered through the day. Around mid afternoon we walked into a house that Jamie really liked. I on the other hand wasn't so impressed, so we continued on. Dinner time hit and we were spent, the day had felt like a failure. There were some houses we liked, but none were "the one". As we were heading back to the office our realtor recommend we go back and take a look at the house Jamie liked just so I could see it again and maybe I would have second thoughts. We went back to the house and as I thought my mind hadn't changed. As we left the house I started thinking there was no way we were going to find a house in time. Both of us were tired and hungry and then our realtor got lost in the subdivision. As we circled around looking for the way out we drove by a new construction house that was for sale. He asked if we wanted to check it out, what the heck what is one more house and another 15 minutes added on to the day. As we walked into the house both of us looked at each other and knew this was it. Our realtor made a phone call to see if it was available. Bad news, it was being put in the parade of homes and we wouldn't be able to move in until mid October. As much as I loved the house I hate moving more and there was no way I was moving our stuff to another rental then to this house. Come to find out the house right behind it was also just finished and had the exact same floor plan just a different elevation and trim. We ended up liking the colors in it even more and put an offer in the next day. Our offer was accepted and we returned to Moscow successful.
The next few weeks were crazy. I wanted to close in three weeks so Jamie had a week to adjust to the area before starting her new job. In those weeks I spent hours on the phone with the mortgage company and the builder, made a trip to Boise and back in one day to do a walk through (thanks to Gavin for the company), and in a last ditch effort to get our loan documents in on time drove to the Moscow airport at 4:30 am to get the documents on a commercial flight that was heading to Boise that day. In the end it was all worth it and we closed on the house in time. Now for the fun part.....MOVING.
I took Thursday and Friday off to pack our stuff and convinced my good friend Gavin Main to help me load the moving truck Friday. Knowing this would be a big change for Jordan, we wanted to get as much done while she was at daycare as possible. Grandma and Grandpa Lewis drove over Friday night to help us with the move and accompany us down to Boise to help us get settled in. Saturday morning I headed out at 5:30 with the moving truck leaving the others behind to clean the rental and pack up the last bits of stuff (which turned out to be a lot more than we thought and required us to rent a trailer to fit it all). By Saturday night we had unloaded everything returned the moving truck and set up the beds. Over the next week we mostly settled in and at this point have pretty much everything unpacked. The End..................
"Wait"
"What?"
"What about Jordan?"
"What do you mean what about Jordan"
"Well this blog is called Baby Femreite and unless you or Jamie have de-evolved into a small child I haven't heard anything about a baby Femreite in this story"
Ok so on to Jordan.
As I had said, during the move from our old house to the rental Jordan never skipped a beat. We didn't expect anything different with this move. Boy were we wrong. Jordan has always been a great sleeper. Going to bed at 8, sleeping all night, and not waking up in the mornings until we woke her up. That has all changed. She won't go to bed at nights, we are lucky if she goes to sleep by 10. She won't go to sleep without one of us (usually mommy) in the room with her. She wakes up all through the night crying. Her new wake up time is usually around 5:30 - 6. At first we blamed it all on the move. Thinking she really wasn't taking it well, and at nights couldn't sleep because she was in some strange room we weren't sure what to do. Recently we have been doing some research and come to find out this is pretty common behavior in children her age. Around this time they start having a lot of separation anxiety and want to test mommy and daddy to see how much they can manipulate them into doing what they want with crying. This behavior had also spilled over into her new day care as well. Not wanting us to leave in the morning, crying a lot through the day, and not interacting with the other kids.
There have been some good times as well. Actually other than night time and being at day care she loves her new house. There are a lot of parks around, two swimming pools which she was able to frequent before they closed for the season, and lots of places to go for bike rides and walks. I am sure Jamie will write more on that later.
We would like to thank everyone who helped us during the move. Specifically Chris, Louise, Gavin, Mary Jo, and Nik for their help during the moving day. Without you we wouldn't have been able to get it done so quickly.
