You may be wondering where we’ve been lately.
A picture is worth a thousand words so let me show you…
Yup that’s right, we moved. Our current landlord didn’t want to renew our lease so we had to move. We were a bit bummed about it since we loved our apartment but since it’s not the norm to have to move halfway through your time at a post they felt bad and gave us a really nice apartment. It’s about three blocks away from our old house in a beautiful building with a great pool. And while we had a beautiful view at our old apartment, it’s 20 floors higher so we have an even better view!
Bur I’m getting ahead of myself, lets start at the beginning. We both took two days off for the move. The first day this meant we got to hang out with the boys all day while the movers packed up all our stuff. We even snuck in a little pool time. We were feeling pretty relaxed about the whole thing.
Malcolm and Adam were of course enthralled by the movers and watched them the entire time.
The next morning we woke up and headed to our new apartment so we could tell the movers where to put all our stuff. When I was growing up we would move ourselves, meaning we would pack up our stuff, rent a Uhaul, lug all our stuff into said Uhaul and then carry all our stuff into our new home. It was EXHAUSTING to say the least. I feel like I shouldn’t complain since this time movers packed up all our stuff, moved it and unpacked it. But it was still tiring. I can’t explain why….but it was.
We got Adam a moving in present so he would be excited about our new house. A helicopter with a moving propeller! This toy had the added bonus of entertaining Adam for a while we were dealing with movers. We (ok, mostly me) were nervous about how Adam would adjust but he’s been great and loves our new place. It’s bigger so he has more room to run around.
Adam’s bff Victoria came by to see our new house during lunch time and spent some time skipping in circles with Adam. Cultural difference number 160 in the Philippines, lunch breaks here last about two hours, a looong eating session followed by a looong nap.
After A VERY LONG day, we finally had all our stuff moved and the beds and monitors set up, bare bones but that was all we needed!
This was my favorite part about the move, cultural difference number 161. My clothes were labeled Mam’s clothes and Randy’s clothes were labeled Sir’s clothes. My favorite is when I’m addressed as Mam here (which is all the time) and because it’s pronounced with a British accent and it sounds like Mum, Adam always thinks everyone is calling me Mom. I’ve had to explain that I am in fact not the mom of the building engineer, the lady at the supermarket or the taxi driver.
So we’ve been here for a week and a half and we finally are almost all settled in. At first we missed our old place but now that it’s all unpacked and put away we’re able to enjoy how nice it is.
Top three best things about this apartment:
Our view is amazing. Better pictures to come but from our living room (and the office and our bedroom) we have a view of all of Manila all the way to the Bay and the entire apartment has these walls of windows so you can really enjoy the view.
Randy’s dream has been fulfilled and he finally has an office space.
Our last place had a view to the west and we got to see amazing sunsets. This apartment has windows on both sides. So the living room, office and our bedroom have a view of the west and the amazing sunsets. The boys’ rooms, kitchen and dining room face the east and we get to enjoy some amazing morning light. This makes those early morning wakeups (why, oh why must my kids rise with the sun…) a little less painful.
In case you’re wondering what Adam is doing here, he’s singing Let it Go at the top of his lungs. He sings like his mommy, loud and out of tune 🙂 Malcolm is trying to eat my Iphone. Typical Ali morning at 6am.
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