Happy in the Duck House

We're finally here and mostly settled. The last two weeks have been chaotic but sort of fun, I guess. We had a lot of great help from my mom (who watched Fi), my dad and his friend to help us load the U-Haul, and the Demkos (Jim helped un-load, and Annie and the boys hung out with my mom and Fi). The unpacking process is still underway. Fortunately, though we are mostly left with boxes of things that never really had a place in the old house. The weird junk that we don't know what to do with but for some reason don't really want to get rid of either.

It's been great here so far (when we're not unpacking or frantically looking for something that is still packed.......somewhere........) We've seen lots of deer (and plenty of deer poop---signs that deer are roaming our backyard as we sleep), and we have a resident duck family that frequents our corn feeding area. Fi LOVES making sure the ducks have corn available all the time. I'm really hoping that they bring their ducklings by when the time is right.




We've all been really enjoying the back porch which is entirely glassed in, including the ceiling. And it's been tons of fun feeding the ducks and exploring the area in general. Even the cats and Puck seem happy here. We set up the huge floor to ceiling cat perch on the back porch and the cats are in kitty heaven. We took Fi to the playground yesterday and Dan and I were commenting on how she seems happier here, in general, than we've ever seen her.

Even daddies need extra special care every so often

Dan and I have been super busy as we pack everything up and get ready to move to our new house (which we are calling "the duck house" since there are lots of ducks in the water). We were packing up our kitchen nook table to take to the new house. I told Fi that we were packing it up to take to the duck house and she said, "so the ducks can eat with us?" I'm really excited about seeing deer and ducks near our new house. It's so exciting, just a week and a half away at this point. Since Dan and I are working so hard we've been especially exhausted lately. Fortunately we have a truly compassionate child. Here's a video of Fiona putting daddy to bed. She covered him up with blankets and then read to him from Minark's Little Bear book.


Dan and I are so lucky to have Fiona around to take care of us!