Moving

We are officially residents of New Ulm now, no longer in the small town of Courtland just in the outskirts.  We moved into our rental house last Saturday.  The move itself went really well.  We had a whole crew of guys from our church come to help us with lots of trucks and trailers...we only had to make one trip into town!  They started loading everything up at about 9:30 am and were finished unloading it all at the house by about 12.  Awesome!  My mom and Mike's, who took Ben to Mankato for the day, had helped me out a ton by bringing food to help me feed all those hard-working guys when they finished.
That was the easy part...for me.  Then came the fun part of unpacking and unfortunately, cleaning.  The day before we moved everything in we got our keys and came to do a light cleaning job.  The house had hardly been touched!  So we ended up having to do some major cleaning and even painting.  Bummer!  Mike was a great guy and repainted the kitchen, including cupboards, for me.
We were a little overwhelmed by the amount of work to do with all of our boxes and furniture already here but not being able to really unpack yet.  Then to top it off, Mike woke up Monday morning with a fever and Ben, who had not seemed like himself for a while, was diagnosed with RSV later that night.  Then I came down with a nasty cold/virus too.  Poor Ben had it the worst.  This respiratory virus that he has is mostly found in children and babies and can be extremely serious in babies, usually ending up in hospitalization.  It can also lead to pneumonia.  Thankfully, Ben's chest x-ray was clear for that.
So we have spent the remainder of our week being miserable at home together.  Ben has had to use a nebulizer every four hours and he has been a trooper with that!

My mom came down for a couple days to help out and that was great.  Instead of clinging to me quite so much, Ben hung out with mom so Mike and I could rest...and do a little unpacking.
Yikes!  What a week!  Today is the first day that I feel like we are all on the mend.  Hopefully we continue to get better so we can finish settling in to our house.