Monday Morning Update - Last week at this house!

We had a very busy week!  Dave was supposed start work, but they called and asked him to start today instead. He was nervous when he left today, but I know he will do great!  Having him home for the week worked out since he was able to go sign the lease for the new place and organize the move! I was really hoping to be in the new place by xmas and I got great news - The movers will be here on Friday! I have been very busy both online and on the phone getting everything updated with school, post office, insurance, etc.  It is taking a long time!  We get the keys on Wed and I am planning to go over and clean before all our stuff gets there.  The movers are planning to pack Fri and Mon and then deliver everything to the new place on Tuesday! We are still planning to go to PA on Thursday for xmas and then tackle cleaning the old place after we get back since final inspection is Jan 3rd.  I have called in my awesome babysitter Jesssica to help me with the kids on Fri and Mon.  She will be keeping them entertained and out of the way while I handle the packers. 

To take a break from all the moving craziness we drove up to Bright Nights in Springfield MA.  The kids loved it!  It is about an hour away so we left after nap and stopped for dinner on the way.   The light displays were amazing!  The kids were so excited. Jess kept talking and pointing out things she saw - it was soo cute!

I also got our holiday cards ordered this week.  I will post after I know most of the family receives theirs, since I don't want to spoil it for them!

 That is it for now. I will take lots of pics of the new place and post them when I can!  Please pray for a smooth move for us!

It's Monday and I have More News!

I have exciting news to get to in a minute, but I just realized while updating the 365 blog, that I never posted about Thanksgiving.  We traveled down to PA and stayed at Grandpa's house.  My sister and neice traveled up and my 98 year old grandma was with us on turkey day!  It even snowed on Thanksgiving! Dave fried the turkey - it was yummy.  My dad did an amazing job with the rest of the meal.  I definitely over ate - it was all so yummy!  It was great to see my little ones playing with their great grandma.  My sister and I were out the door at 2:30 am for some Black Friday shopping and scored lots of good deals!  We were back home by 6:30 and Dave let me sleep in. The kids slept well over night in their peapods, but did not nap well at all so were super crabby every evening.  We went down on Wed and came back home on Sat.  The kids traveled well and were back to their normal nap/sleep schedule in a day or so. 

The exciting news - we found a  4 bedroom house to rent in Ledyard!!!  We should be signing the lease later today and starting to move in Dec15th!!!!  The Navy owes us a move, so Dave is meeting with personal property on Thursday to get dates for the move.  We are super excited and even though it will mean a crazy few weeks and very busy xmas, we are really ready to get on with our new civilian life!

Even more exciting news - No one cried when we went to see Santa!

Spaghetti - A Triplet Joke!!!

A wealthy man was having an affair w/an Italian woman for several years. One night, during one of the their rendezvous, she confided in him she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would to to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18. She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discreet, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write "Spaghetti" on the back. He would then arrange for the child support payments to begin.

One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife. "Honey," she said, "you recieved a very strange post card today." "Oh, just give it to me and I'll explain it" he said.

The wife watched as her husband read the card, turned white and fainted.

On the back of the card was written: "Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two w/meatballs and one w/out."

Dave got a Job Offer!!!!

WOO HOO!!!!!
Dave was offered a position with Quest to contract out to Pratt and Whitney in Middletown CT!  He will be getting an email with all the details early next week and starts training on Monday Dec. 6th!!!

It is a 45 minute commute for now and he will train on 1st shift for a few weeks and then transfer to 2nd shift and work 3pm to 1130pm.  Even better is that he already knows that he gets Christmas off!  The plant shuts down from Dec 24 thru the 31st.  He won't get paid for the week this year since he will have just started, but at least we know for next year!  He is very excited and it is a HUGE stress off of us!!!! 

We still need to be moved by Jan 3rd so now the next big step is finding a rental place for a few months with the plan to buy a house next summer! We want Lucas to finish the school year at Ledyard, so we plan on finding something local for now.  Ideally we would like his commute to be no longer than 30 min so that will be our strategy when we plan our house search this spring!

Dave has already talked to personal property and they say it will only be 1 or two weeks to move us once we find a place since it will be a local move!  Having the Navy move us this time is a big stress reliever for me with xmas coming!  I know it will be crazy, but I know that we can do it!! ( with help from my local friends of course!! )

Anyway, thanks to all who have been praying for us and now you know what we are THANKFUL for this Thanksgiving!!!!!!

Moms of multiples are freaks of nature

I know that you want an update, but there is nothing to really update! Major stress and looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving with my dad and sister!!! We are leaving on Wed at nap and with the holiday short work week, not much to do about the job or house hunts! Saw this on a fellow triplet mom's facebook account and it made me laugh so much I had to repost it here! This actually has happened to me a little bit!