Monday, May 26, 2008

A Lag Liv Family Miracle

After another scare last night when JP's temperature jumped up to 104.4 and took its time coming back down (I have never felt someone so burning hot), we have experienced a Memorial Day/Exam Week/Big Move miracle. I gave him a dose of tylenol at 3:30 AM and when I woke up at 7:30 his temperature was a perfect 98.4 degrees. Unfortunately accomplishing that 6 degree drop involved sweating through our only extra set of sheets, two blankets, the dry-clean only comforter, and our mattress, but he is feeling 100% better and I was looking for an excuse to get a new bedroom set anyway. And because one miracle wouldn't have been enough to fully recover from the past few days, Landon was a perfect, playful little guy all day yesterday and then slept 11.5 hours last night! Hope and happiness reign once again in the Lag Liv house.

I've spent the morning enjoying my smiling boys and getting all the packing and organizing done for the move. Because my M&A final tomorrow is followed immediately by environmental law on Wednesday morning (the same time the movers come), I need to have everything arranged now. My firm provides a full service move (packing, loading, unloading, taking apart the furniture and putting it back together - these are the kind of perks no one asks about at OCI but really make a difference during this crazy summer), but we'll need clothes and other items for the 10-14 days before the truck gets to Austin. I've finished with our bathroom, my jewelry, Landon's room, and my closet. All JP has to do is keep the movers away from those suitcases and a few other things we'll need for the 2 nights we'll spend in our wood-floored furniture-less apartment (like the air mattresses- those will be very important).

Now armed with rest and an early morning sense of accomplishment, I'm heading down to Hyde Park to spend my Memorial Day holed away in a corner of the library leaning something about mergers, acquisitions, and maybe environmental law. I may have mentioned this before, but I cannot wait for law school to be over - FOUR more days! (Although right now that sounds more scary than happy...)

10 comments:

  1. I'm glad to hear that JP is feeling better.

    Good luck on your exams!

    ~ps

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  2. I'm glad to hear all is better in the Lag Liv household. As a veteran of many moves, I can tell you that the best thing to do is put the things you *don't* want moved in your bathroom. That way, you can close the door and tell the movers not to go in there. Of course, that means you clear everything out of there that you do want them to pack, but at least you're not always worrying if your last pair of clean socks are being boxed up! Good luck-you're almost done!

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  3. Oh it's so good to hear you so upbeat!! Full service moving is SO GREAT. I will never be paying my friends with pizza and beer again. Good luck on your exams!

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  4. hallelujah!!!! so glad to hear that wicked fever broke! although it probably wasn't a lot of fun for him to wake up in a pool of his own sweat (or you, probably, unless you quarateened yourself onto Landon's extra bed). And soooooo glad to hear Landon slept through the night! HOpefully this is the first night of many and he'll have them under his belt enough to transition well once in the new house (I won't scare you with how long it took Gavin when we moved when he was 11 months).

    And full-service moving? AWESOME! Last time we moved we packed ourselves (since we were paying for it), but it was fantastic to have all our worldly goods sitting in our new home by 3pm.

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  5. Hooray! Thank goodness. :)

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  6. That is awesome. I am so glad JP is all better and Landon slept for you. Plus full service movers? Too cool. Good luck on finals!

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  7. Woohoo! Almost done! I second the bathroom idea. You could even put the stuff in the bathtub (if it'll fit) so they can pack up the rest of the room, or stick it in the car.

    Good luck on the finals!

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  8. i am SO glad your family has had a little relief! you all deserve it!!

    good luck on the exams. i'll be thinking of you!

    x

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  9. Glad everyone is feeling better. Moving sucks but what could be better than heading back to God's Country?! Excited for you guys! I'll be looking for posts once you settle in. Cute pics of Landon! And you're almost DONE with Law School! Walk toward the light LL!

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  10. wow, I don't know how you manage final exams AND moving. I can barely do one of those at a time!

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