We Made It!

It has been 1 week since we have been living in Cambridge, and we survived! :) We moved in to our temporary apartment last Saturday and have been adjusting to city life this week.

We went to church in our new ward, which meets in an old building that has been remodeled. It seems to be a good ward with lots of young families. Thatcher and Taggart are in separate nurseries, divided according to age. There are lots of little boys Thatchers age in this ward, which will be nice for him. Taggy looks like he will have lots of little girl friends, which is okay cause he has his big brother to rough him up enough at home.

We are living in this apartment until next week when we move into our assigned apartment by MIT. We are living in Westgate Family Housing, and it is wonderful to have a HUGE playground steps away from our front door. It seems to have a great family community feel, and ever Friday night everyone grabs their own meat and there is a huge BBQ. There are four other LDS families living here for the summer that we know of, there might be more, we don't know yet. I think we will really enjoy it here. I cannot wait to get our stuff out of storage and make our apartment our home.

I ordered grocery's this week from an online grocery delivery service they have here called Peapod. This will be a LIFE saver here!!! I ordered them one day, the next day there were delivered right to my kitchen table. No hauling two screaming kids to the store, no climbing the stairs with bags of grocery's, what a great idea! I also found another life savor this week, it is called Super Suppers. You really need to check out the website. I went and in two hours made enough dinners to last us the whole month. We don't have a dishwasher (well we do, it is me!) and so this wonderful! I just take the food out of the freezer at lunch to defrost, then cook it, and throw everything away. We don't have a washer or dyer in the apartment so every Wednesday I plan on going down to my parents house and doing laundry there. It is also nice because my Mom watches the boys while I attend my Wilton Cake class, which I love. It is a fun hobby, and it gives me some time out by myself.

Todd is loving school and just finished the first week. He hasn't had any real work yet, just a bunch of leadership activities. The real load comes this up coming Monday. He is really liking his class of 48 students, and after this week he feels like he has gotten to know quite a few pretty well. He is in a team of four for the summer, and from what I hear life is about to get very busy for him.

I have been busy planning activities and outings for my two active little monkeys. I am going to put up flyer's and see if anyone wants to start doing Joy School with me in the Fall cause Preschool here cost about 700 bucks a month! I am starting a playgroup/lunch date with other moms from Todd's LFM program on Tuesday and we are going to the Library on Thursday's for story and music time. For those days that we do just hang out, Thatcher and Tagg are LOVING teasing, wrestling, fighting, and playing with each other. Brothers. It is a fun stage they are going through.