We arrived in Little Rock Arkansa early last week and we made it all in one piece! I drove the van with the girls and Niles followed behind me the entire trip. It took us 8 hours of driving one day and 5 hours the next. I dreaded this drive for a month. The last time I drove that long with the kids I had my mom. She was there to pick up sippy cups that fell and feed Addy when she was fussing. But this time I was flying solo!
Truly, there must have been a light beaming down from the heaven's for two solid days on my little mini-van, because the girls were amazing! I honestly don't think there was one cry out of either of them the entire trip. At one point I had thought there might be something wrong with them because...NOTHING!!! We drove solid for almost 4 hours one day and they didn't even fuss, like I could have gone another couple hours and had been okay!!! AMAZING!!!
We pulled up and let the kids run for a while and put them in their play-pens to sleep for the night. Niles and I thought it would just be better if we got everything unloaded and un packed in one night so it was done and over with and we would have a few days to relax. We did not estimate the time and effort our thought was going to take. So we stood there staring at the truck with all of the things needing to be unloaded for about 20 minutes. A very nice man wondered what we were doing out in the parking lot. He had a twang in his accent and super nice. We told him that we had just gotten to the apartment about 2 hours earlier and were going to attempt to unload our truck before we went to bed. He said in the nicest way, "well bare with me ya'll, I need to go fix me up and I'll be right back to help ya's out!" And with that we recruited a third person to help us un load! We had it all finished within two hours!
Okay, next problem. We had to fit a 1350 square foot house with a 2 car garage worth of stuff in a 1000 square foot, 2 bed room apartment! It was rough, tensions were high, but finally at 2am....we did it! We managed to get it all in, stored away, and with plenty of room to live in!
So we've been here a week and things look good so far. There is TONS of places to shop, good places. There are great walking trails and paths for the kids and I to explore (no worries they are safe). The people here are extremely nice, which we were not used to at all! It is just nice, for lack of better words, to be around good people and nice places to go to! Schfewwwwwwww (sigh of relief)!!!!!!!!! I actually like it here, there is sooo much to do, it is a nice/safe place, awesome scenery, it is clean, and well I could go on for hours!
BUT, we are here, and we are safe. The girls are still adjusting, but they come around more and more each day. It will take time. I havn't taken any pictures because I didn't know when I would get internet...so I will start capturing our moments in Arkansas tomorrow!
p.s. I LOVE SOUTHERN ACCENTS!!! It is awesome, I could listen to people that were born and raised here speak all day! It is fantastic! Like a perfect Southern Belle accent....AWESOME!
