Getting Moved In

Wow, time flies! We spent about a month living with Josh's parents and it is nice to be moved into our own place. However, I am still getting adjusted to this crazy manager lifestyle I've signed up for! My friend, Tiffany (who has managed with her husband for a few years now at other apartments and now manages the "brother complex" to ours) keeps telling me it will slow down.... I hope, I hope!

We moved in last Thursday and had to decorate the just barely finished clubhouse for Christmas. Then they had an open house on Fridy and Saturday. This week it's helping Tiffany at Southgate with her check-outs and lots of girls moving their stuff into storage here for the winter break who are moving in in January. In between all that I have about 300 girls to assign apartments to who all have many requests, "room with Mary, same ward as Scott Hart, building by the clubhouse, and oh yeah, near Julie..." the list goes on. I really hope I can make all these girls happy! I've been so busy, it's like, "When do I do my laundry? Go grocery shopping?" I kind of miss just hanging out with my boys all day! :( I'm trying to get them to let me hire an office assistant a couple of afternoons per week. Hopefully it works out. When we signed up for this, the hours were going to be 9 am - 1:00 pm M-F but right after we got here the owner said he wanted 9 am - 6 pm M-F and we were like, "Uh, well, we can't really back out now...we're here!" So, I really hope he let's me hire this assistant that I want to cover at least Tues, and Thurs. afternoons. They did double the salary, which is nice, but at some point I just say, "I don't care, I still want more time with my kids," you know? So, that's where we're at right now. It is a beautiful place to live. Every girl I show an apartment to just loves it. I can confidently say it is the nicest apartment complex in the city. So, I'm grateful for the situation we're in, (especially since our house STILL hasn't sold!) it's just sad somedays, especially when Gabe says, "I miss spending time with you, Mom..." awww! Tear! He is in preschool here, but I still miss Hope in Wisconsin. I talked to his old teacher today and she said the kids still talk about Gabe and how, "He's never coming back." (Aww! Tear again!) I think maybe we should come home for a visit in Spring and let him go visit Hope again for a couple days just for fun. I'm thinking May would be a good time for a visit to Wisconsin. :)

Well, that's all for now! Here's some pics of all the snow and the boys sledding, kitties at grandma's house, and more.