Our new apartment faces the Greenfield Commons. In the header picture, King is looking at Town Hall across the way. In between our building and Town Hall is a little park where there is a farmer’s market from May to October. We are around the corner from Main Street, where the Greenfield Library is a hop and a skip away, and of course, our favorite restaurant, The Hope and Olive is around another corner, almost directly behind our building.
Henry did all the moving on Saturday, and managed to have the truck unloaded in two hours, thanks to David and Lauri’s help! Alice and I joined Henry on Sunday. Mom drove up on Sunday as well to drop off our new-old kitchen table and to have brunch at the Hope and Olive. Alice missed her daddy terribly and the reunion was sweet.
Photo taken by Grandma
We’ve been busy unpacking and getting settled into our new routine. Henry works from home in his new job, which is new for us so we’re working on striking a balance between daddy having time and space to do his work, and Alice getting the attention she wants from daddy. This morning, I took a break from unpacking boxes to take Alice to the library. I got a library card and we checked out the Children’s Reading Room, which is comfy and has lots of books perfect for Alice. Alice and I made some friends while there, and we’re going back later this week to check out the Mother Goose story time.
Photo by Laura Brodsky
We have stuff everywhere, waiting for a home but most of the kitchen is unpacked. Coming from a smaller apartment that had different storage configurations, we’re finding that we need a dresser for our clothing, and organizers for the bathroom. We also have HUGE windows in the bedroom and the living room that need to be dressed. We’ll be ordering some roman shades for those. Because our new space is so open, we’ve being superconscious of how much stuff we have! We got rid of a lot of stuff before we moved, and we’re still getting rid of stuff. We freecycled Alice’s dresser this morning, and we’ll be replacing it with a bigger dresser that can hold all our clothing. Because we have a kitchen table now, we’ve Freecycled our desk as well. We left our old couch behind because we plan to go back to do some cleaning, and we anticipate that we’ll have to return for other business as well… not to mention, the couch doesn’t fit in the elevator! So, we’re excited to buy some new living room furniture as well. Our new couch will be a sleeper (the old one isn’t), so we’re prepared for your visit! We’ll be sure to have everything in its place by then.
Here’s an article about Jordi Herold, our new landlord and the developer of our building: http://www.recorder.com. We’re very pleased with our apartment. It’s a great landing spot for us until we can sell our apartment and start looking for a new home to buy, which will probably be not far from Greenfield!
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