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 What a week it's been with moving in to a new home, packing and un-packing and finally making this my new home. New life as a single mom of three, bring it on!! *This blog post has ads.* Moving discount at Offerilla I started packing a week before my actual move which was the right choice with three kids and also I'm a working mom so time was limited. I wanted a moving firm to come and help me with mostly my furniture but also boxes and therefore I checked through major moving firms. The cost of moving kids beds, a kitchen table with four chairs, patio furniture and all the boxes varied from 400-1200€ euros. That was way more than my stuff cost since I didn't have a couch or a bed with me in my old home (those were delivered brand new from other places). So I googled some more and checked Offerilla  and they actually had a quite a few different deals under "Palvelut/Services" section. I chose 2 hour moving with two movers and a big truck from a firm called KokoRe...

Hello everyone! What a week it's been: I had my baby last tuesday and we're back at our new home. Let me just say it was a bit of a chaos, if I may call it. In the middle of the moving process on tuesday my contractions just kept coming and coming, stronger so we had to leave everything in the hands of our (the best ever) parents. They took care of little L, put everything in final place here at our home, cleaned it, cleaned our old place..what else? I am so grateful for all their help - we could not have done without them. Lucky us :) I stayed at the hospital until friday with the baby because he was born prematurely (pregnancy week 36+2) so they had to make sure he didn't lose too much his birthweight. He did, almost 10%, so we're really keeping track on how he's eating etc. Hope all goes well in the end and he'll start packing on pounds cause he's so tiny!! Other than that, life's good and we're so happy. All of us, even L although he is a bit ...

Our little baby boy was born yesterday June 21, 2016 at 8 in the evening. Almost 4 weeks too early and we're staying at the hospital for at least two nights. He's so tiny and so cute - my heart is full. I love my children and my family. Now I will concentrate on him, moving process which took place yesterday, can wait. Both grandparents are helping, either with the move or with little L - who by the way seems like a giant compared to the baby :) And what else. .oh yes, my husband got a job yesterday. Permanent position. What a day!! Life is good right now and now I have everything.

Good morning! It's rainy today so it's a good day to start our moving process: we're getting the keys to our new home today :) Not too much heavy lifting today but only cleaning and taking some stuff - slowly moving, that's our strategy :) The actual movers come on tuesday so that's the first night we'll be spending at our new home. Very exciting! I had my pregnancy week 35 check up at a doctor's office on friday, and everything seems still fine. And even though everything still fine and it doesn't seem that real that I'll be going into labor anytime soon, that still means I might be going - it could happen anytime from now on until my due date. That's reality. She suggested I'd take it easy from now on but..that's easier to be said than done - I'll rest more after we're done with the move. Unless I'm in labor next week ;) Please, keep your fingers crossed for me! Baby weighs about 2,7 kg so he's ready what comes to his...

Hey you all! It's been a hectic week so far, full of packing since we're moving next week. Actually, we get to move on saturday - that's when we get to have the keys to our new home. Exciting!! And get to clean all weekend, not that exciting ;) Almost all of my kitchen ware is packed and in boxes ready to be moved but still so much more to do. L has a slight flu so let's hope he wont get it next week - that week is just booked. Baby's still in place and let's hope he'll stay there until the due date, and I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, which I mentioned earlier so let's hope baby will stay put for at least for another week or two. I had my baby shower on monday and it was really nice to see everyone. I got like 5 bags of baby clothes so we're set now :) My husband has a job interview as we speak so let's keep our fingers crossed!! I really hope he'll get this one but if not, he'll keep on trying. We're also going to see...

Hello everyone! Weeks seem to pass by like nothing - it's been almost a week since I wrote last time. We've certainly had an exciting week; we sold our apartment and bought a new one. It's finally official and time to start thinking about the moving process! Yes, the move.. I've been asking for offers from different companies here in Helsinki-Espoo area in Finland but I'm still looking for the best one. You need to make sure they have valid insurances, what kind of contract you make (either you pay by the hour or for the whole package), how many movers and cars you get etc. Prices range from 500€ to 2000€ so quite the range! Obviously, we don't want to pay that much since we're only gonna pay for the heavy furniture to be moved - everything else (the small ones) we can move with our cars. Yes, we're always looking for the savings but unfortunately we can't do it all by ourselves: I do need to take it easy and let other people do it for us because o...

Hello everyone! My exciting week is coming to an end tomorrow as we sign the papers: we're selling our apartment and buying new one. Can't wait and I hope everything goes as planned! We're going to move either June 17 or 20 so about 1 month before my due date. I've been looking for offers on different moving firms as I can't lift anything heavy (couch, bed, etc.). Hopefully I'll find something good on time, in a decent price. On saturday we're celebrating L's birthday party (finally!) with our closest relatives. He turned 2 on March 1st and we didn't have a real party for him then (we were staying at different locations due to our bathroom renovation project) so now it's time to have it. I've been planning all week what to prepare for the party: I'll have ice cream (a substitute for the cake), ham pie, cheese, huge fruit plate, miniature meatballs, "hiding frankfurters", salad and many other little things. I love parties and...

Hey you all!! It's been a while since I wrote last time but here I am! It's been a wild week, I'm telling you. It's mother's day and I'm up already!! I was allowed to sleep in this morning but this is what happened. Boys are still sleeping, even the smaller one (my little L) which is sort of a miracle: we've had a few terrible evenings what comes to going to bed and falling asleep followed by even worst nights. Why? Well, we finally gave up on pacifier. "The little bunny babies took them" and really, it went well because he hasn't for a pacifier but evenings are just crazy. He keeps running around the house, wanting to play at 10 pm until he's way too tired and just keeps crying and screaming. Great. I had to google it to find how if other people have had this same thing going on and yes, they've had. Maybe he'll go back to that 2 mins and fall asleep -mode. Maybe. It's only been a week now since he gave up so maybe it takes f...

Hey everyone! What a week it's been so far. L is finally getting healthier and last night was the first night in a long while he (and I) actually slept all night long. We ended up keeping him at home on friday too so he missed day care all week. Luckily my in-laws were in town so they took care of L yesterday so I could go to work. I don't even wanna think about our life when our second son starts day care and I go back to work - it's gonna be very challenging :) Yikes.. But today is finally weekend and I get to go to my pregnancy yoga class in the afternoon - a much needed one. It's raining (snowing, actually!!) here in Helsinki so not much to do outside the apartment except going for a class. And silly me, I hoped L and I could go out and play today. Apparently that wont happen today. Apartment on the market Our apartment is now on sale and just like I imagined, people are actually interested in seeing it so tomorrow couple of families are coming here to see it...

Hello everyone! Hope you had a good and relaxing weekend! Mine was full of packing since we temporarily moved again to my husband's parents house. I shouldn't complain at all - we're lucky to have a temporary housing (and even two!) and not having to rent somewhat expensive apartment for a month. My parents are coming back to their house so that's why we had to leave. So my weekend consisted of cleaning both places, packing (again) and un-packing, cooking and just normal family stuff. Only thing is, our little L is kinda confused with this whole moving thing and he basically cried all saturday night. He also got this really cool fire-truck  so he absolutely could not sleep! It's so hard to focus on anything when you haven't really slept - and same happened last night. More coffee, I say.. Bathroom renovation We did make it to a hardware store yesterday, and pretty much decided on what kind of tiles we want on the walls and floor. And we found a new toilet ...