So yes, when we brought a baby home, life did get turned upside down but in every way imaginable!
You know how people say that your life is never the same after a baby or "everything changes" after a baby. Well, the Clark family took that to a whole other level. 2 days before Keira was born, Jim accepted a position at a much larger company over 3 hours away from where we had been living for the past 6 year (yes, SIX year). So a week after Keira was born, we put our house on the market. That same week, we all drove down to meet with a realtor and look at houses. We put an offer on a house at the beginning of the next week, it was accepted, then we accepted an offer on ours that same week! Talk about a whirlwind! Thankfully, we didn't have to pack or move anything. Jim's company hired movers to take care of all of that for us (could you imagine packing up an entire house with a newborn?! LOL). He had to start April 18, which made Keira right at 4 weeks old. Since the closing on our house wasn't until May, they put him in a hotel until we closed on the new house. We lived 3 weeks that way...me and Keira in Macomb, Jim in the hotel down here and then he'd drive back for the weekends. ICK. I sent him pictures and videos of her everyday, but as you can imagine, that wasn't near enough. Each weekend, he'd see how much she had grown since the last time so when the movers came to pack and take everything, Keira, the dogs and I just drove down and stayed in the hotel with him until we closed on the new house. 2 dogs and a 6 week old in a hotel room for 2.5 weeks was a little ridiculous, I have to say, but we got through it.
So yes, when we brought a baby home, life did get turned upside down but in every way imaginable!
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