So Long Richmond Lane....Hello Springhaven Drive

It's been a long, exhausting month.  Lots of paperwork, lots of small dramas, lots of planning.  Yesterday, it all finally came together - we sold the old house and bought a new house.  The movers packed us up and had us out of the old house Thursday night and we've now moved in to a lovely hotel room until Christmas.  If moving at Christmas time in Chicago weren't enough stress, we opted to do some improvements to the new house before we move in.  All of that kicked off today with full steam in the hope that before Christmas, it will all be done so that the moving truck can arrive on the 27th.  Lots of before and after pictures are in this blog's future, but until then, we are so incredibly happy to be moving to a lovely new house, in a lovely new neighborhood, with a lovely commute for me, near a lovely new school for Luke. 

Luke has truly been the light of the whole process.  Yesterday, we're sitting at closing which can be a fairly long process.  It's Luke's naptime, and he's already been trucked and hauled around to all kinds of places, staying in a weird place, eating out a lot, having very few toys to play with.  There he is at the conference room table, perfectly entertained with scribbling his "signature" on blank sheets of paper, sorting paper clips, and putting his Thomas stickers as notary seals.  Yes, we did bribe him with the promise of ice cream, but I wouldn't have suspected that even that could bring about such amazing behavior in an almost-three-year-old. 

Tonight, we were leaving yet another dinner out when Jingle Bells came on the radio.  Luke made up his own lyrics:

Choo Choo tracks
Choo Choo tracks
Choo Choo all the way
Oh what fun, it is to ride
On the Choo Choo open tracks

Oh, to have have a video camera.  Now that I'll have about 10 hours back in my week, I expect blogging to be more prevalent.  We'll post pictures as soon as we're a little more settled.  Luke and I will head to Papa and Gramma's house next weekend and then Mike will fly down after the construction is done.  Then, we bring everyone back with us for moving in on the 27th.  Lots of hotels between then and now and a lot of living out of suitcases.