Moving With A Baby

Moving With A Baby

Easton will be 9 months old in five days! We have been living with my parents since I was about 10 weeks pregnant with E to try and save money to buy a house. Space had started getting pretty tight at my parents house and we suddenly got a really great deal on a two bedroom apartment so we decided to move. The only catch is we moved in less than two weeks. We found out about the apartment on Friday, got the paperwork done on Tuesday, then moved in the following Monday. That means we moved in 10 days. It was chaotic but we survived and this is how we did it.

      The first thing we did was tell my parents we were moving and start packing. This makes our third move in two years so I'm feeling like a pro packer at this point. Our first two moves we went around to various businesses and stores and got boxes for free. I DO NOT RECOMMEND DOING THAT! The boxes they give are usually already weakened from being shipped to the store which makes them hold less and break more. For this move we went to the u-haul store. The boxes are usually about $2.50 each for the largest boxes or $20 for ten (this may vary depending on your location.) It was so worth the money to buy good boxes. I got all of our stuff and E's stuff from our bedroom in ten big boxes and four small boxes. They held a lot of stuff and were really strong which made moving them easier and quicker.

     Packing with a mobile infant isn't easy. In fact it may be nearly impossible, so my next suggestion would be find a baby sitter for a couple hours one day. My grandma took E to bible school at our church the Saturday before we moved and it made it so much easier to get the final boxes packed.

     Having a packing and moving plan is the next tip that helped me a ton (you guys know how much I love to plan.) I made a list of what order to pack things and made a schedule for the moving day. This helped me stay on track with my packing and made it easy to keep everyone who helped us move stay on the same page.

    That brings me to my last tip. Get help, hire help if you can afford it, or enlist friends and family. We had the help of my grandma, cousins, brothers, and my parents later on as well as a close friend and moving would have been impossible without them.

Here is my packing plan

• Tuesday

1. Toys E doesn't play with often
2. Out of season clothes (ours and E's)
3. Shoes we wouldn't need until after the move

• Wednesday

1. clothes we wouldn't be wearing for the next week
2. bedroom decor

• Friday

1. Kitchen items

• Saturday (Grandma had E)

1. anything left in our room we wouldn't be needing
2. essentials box (this box I kept open until the day we moved it held all of our electronics, chargers, and any thing we needed to get ready on monday morning)
3. unpacking kit (this was a small box with things like box cutters, cleaning supplies, laundry and dish detergents)

I hope this helps anyone who is moving. Leave me a comment if you would like to a post about sharing a room with our baby, and don't forget to follow me via e-mail to see my latest post.