For Halloween I Decided to Dress Up Like a Vaginally Challenged Mother in Denial About Moving to Little Rock for Five Months. You?

Apparently I'm still suppressing all my emotions regarding this very closely impending temporary move (t-move? temp-ove?) to Little Rock. I realized this the other day when I found myself bawling on the couch, about halfway through a bag of 100 Grands.

[Note to self: Do not think you're being extra smart by purchasing large bags of halloween candy that you looooove because then you won't mind having "leftovers" because duh you'll just eat them all before the actual Halloween night because with your luck you'll get your period back and have to move again]

Oh and so much for that pants size thing.

The longer I'm in my wonderful house, the more I reaaaaaaally don't want to leave for an old transitional furnished house on a base in Little Rock.

Plus it doesn't help that all two of my very friendly and well meaning Arkansas readers have emailed me to say "the area near the base, is um, well, interesting so if you need a place to go..."

Um. Thanks, guys.

Actually, they've been cool. I just reaaaaaaaaalllllly like it here.

And so, when the huz broke the news that he will indeed go on orders November 12 to Little Rock, not Dobbins, that nice base up the street from us, I thought, for an extremely lengthy moment, that perhaps I could really just stay here.

But then that preschool already took all my money. And we'd be alone.

A lot.

And that just doesn't bode will for my bowels, amongst other things.

So I'm going. We're all going.

After Thanksgiving is over, I will pack up our suitcases, toys, and anything else I can fit into my truck and we will drive due West for eight hours to our next destination on this seemingly long ass journey.

You will come with me, right?

Don't cry for meeeeeee Atlanta! I do enough for all of us, particularly at 3am when Mommy is fast asleep.

Comments

[Beth B]

I would send you lots of chocolate if I could, chocolate solves all menstral, emotional and mental issues. Really, it is the miracle food.

[Suburban Oblivion]

You really LIKE Atlanta? Who are you and what did you do with Kristen???

[Jerri Ann]

I really loved living in Atlanta. I now live at "home" which includes but is not limited to a town with a population of 400 (and that is not missing a zero), where cows and horses roam, panthers live in the woods behind me and my cousin had a pig in a little falling apart barn about 15 to 20 yards in front of my front door for the first year we lived here. And, need I add that the land where my house is was a pasture less than 6 months before I lived here. So, with that said, you will only miss Atlanta more and more as the time passes by...and I'll keep reading you until you can get back where you belong!

[Heather]

I'll still be here reading you...no matter where you go.

Hey, at least it's temporary.

[Christy]

Arwen that's too funny. I grew up in Pine Bluff...Little Rock is SO much better I can't even find words to express!! No comparison, in my mind.

[Jessica (aka. Rose)]

We're coming! No worries!
At least this time you know that you like Atlanta so you can really look forward to going home at the end of the 5 months.
With those two kids of yours the time is going to fly!
Hey! Drew might be walking by then!

[Mom101]

I haven't read all the comments but I can't be the only person who thought you wrote that you were dressing up like a vagina. Funny enough, I wouldn't have put it past you.

(Keep laughing. It's good for the bowels.)

[TB]

We'll keep you company for the five months and hopefully it'll go by fast. Just think how fast the last five have gone.

[ImpostorMom]

that sucks, it really does. five months will go by pretty quickly and you will be together, that is important.

Just make sure the huz makes it up to you over and over. even though he doesn't have much control either.

[Jennifer]

Gah, I'm sorry Kristen. It just sucks, glad it's only temporary.

[motherofbun]

After all of this AND a period, I'd love to put you up against the advertising person who created the "have a happy period" campaign as well as the peeps who signed off on it.

If you decide to do that, let me know. I wanna watch as you tear 'em a new one. :-)

[arwen]

I was just in LR for a funeral. It wasn't so bad. Better than Pine Bluff. 5 months is only 150 days, that's nothing, it will fly by. And, AR produces soy beans so edamame is probably really cheap there and it has a street named after Clinton and I can't wait to read the stories.

[Kelly]

In the famous words of Mick Jagger, wild horses couldn't tear me away.

[Queen of Shake Shake]

I'm dressing up as a DIVA CUP. Just to gross you sissy girls out.

Man, I don't know how you're doing it. Moving again. Ugh! I don't envy that, that's for sure. I guess you get to see another part of the country? Ummm, I'm coming up short for a positive outlook. It's not your in-laws? Gesh.

[TNG]

FWIW--I've been in denial also--with you and for you.

Look at it this way--it will be LESS THAN HALF the time that you lived with your in-laws and remember how FAST THAT time went by?

[jessicab]

Having grown up in southern Arkansas I have visited Little Rock many times. I do hope you enjoy your time there. I also hope that 5 months go by in the blink of an eye.

Happy Halloween

[Redneck Mommy]

Five months will fly by. In the blink of an eye. Just a couple of um, periods and you'll be back in your new place.

If I had my druthers, I'd move to where Boo lives...er, works just so that we wouldn't be alone so often.

But since I'm not so fond of tenting it or homeschooling, we stay.

Besides, the mother-in law lives down the road. How lonely can I get, right?

Just poke me with a sharp stick now, will ya?

[MamaLee]

I'll come with you, of course.

I've been alone here during each week for, what, 3 years now. Hubby flies out to work every Monday morning and returns every Thursday night. It works for us - I was hoping that something like that could work for you as well. Moving sucks.

Chin up, girlie girl. Something good is gonna happen, I'm sure. xoxo

[Christy]

It *really* sucks that you are moving there just as I am moving away!! I would have loved to taken you out for a beer!

Little Rock (and it's surroundings) is where I grew up. I went to school, got married and had a baby there. I really thought we would live there forever. Huz got a job in MI so we packed up our shit and moved 15 hours north. I'm going back this weekend to see family, because they ALL still live there.

I like LR. While it's not ATL, I still like it. I hope you will like it too! If you don't, at least it is a short stay. Good luck with the packing.

[PunditMom]

Wow. You're a stronger woman than I am -- I would totally stay in Atlanta over Little Rock.

[Melissa P.]

When do you get to move back to Atlanta?

[Oh, The Joys]

Dog Gammit.

[dana]

I'm crossing my fingers that the next five months go quickly so you can return to your nice, new house!

[Guilty Secret]

Oh course we'll be with you! Oh, the beauty of the blogosphere... it even stretches to Little Rock :)

[Lisa]

Sorry you have to move... yet again. But on another note, that is one seriously adorable baby boy you have!!! :)

[Angie in Texas]

i'm so sorry k. i was really pulling for the base near by. but it will be for only 5 months - not a 9 month tdy. and you'll be together. and you'll be together.
remember: together.

[Stacey]

I lived on the base in Little Rock for a little over a year, and while it won't be "home" it's not as bad as what you might think :) Hang in there!

[Jo]

Oh I'm sooo sorry. I've moved more times than I can count, all through my life, and I hate it. I can't stand it anymore. And to leave a brand new nice house-- why that would break anyone's heart. Splurge on your candy, and I hope the transitional period goes well and goes by soon. Gosh, your kids are so cute! (mine is 8 months in a couple days)