Settled

We are here and settled in for the most part! The trip went smoothly – Cate and Henry both did marvelous on the plane. We stayed the first night in a seedy motel and moved into our apartment on Monday morning.

We settled in just before Telfer left for Southern California to attend the funeral of his beloved Papa. The weekend here in NYC has been good. I am still figuring out how one manages stairs, stroller, dog on a leash and keys all at once. Making serious headway. Henry finally showed some spunk at the dog park last night and Molly came over for takeout Thai and Tri-Cities wine. This morning Cate and I walked all over Morningside Heights and Columbia University. Beautiful. Goal for next week: taking the baby on the subway by myself and getting Internet in the apartment. I love my iPhone but it can’t do everything…

The Night Before

So here we are in Olympia, together again (I was so happy to pick Telfer up from the airport last night – three weeks is really a long time). 

We are almost done figuring out the packing/luggage strategy for our travel day. Witness one aspect below:
 

I love my new iphone! So, here's the schedule:

Tomorrow we leave for the airport at 3:45 a.m. (yes, you read that correctly). Our flight leaves at 7:15 a.m. and arrives in NYC around 3:30 p.m. or so. Hopefully we get Henry in both the sherpa bag and in the cabin of the airplane (rather than the cargo hold). We'll get a taxi into the city and then stay one night in a hotel near our apartment. The moving truck and hired movers will arrive sometime on Monday morning and we'll move in. Yikes. Pray for us! We'll keep this updated…

Mom Jeans

Maybe you have all seen this already but Elizabeth showed it to me and I haven't stopped laughing. My biggest nightmare: flaunting mom jeans.
 

In other news, Cate and Henry and I are headed to Olympia tomorrow. Telfer sold his car and the buyers will pick it up tomorrow. He'll drive a rental car for a week. We still have quite a few details to figure out for our actual move to NYC (car service, movers, henry on the plane) but we are doing pretty well. We don't like being apart this long but somehow we're halfway through already… 

And in nerdy book news, I finished updating all the books we are taking to NYC in LibraryThing. Only 208! I am proud of me! And a good chunk are Cate's…blame it the baby.