Ep 46: Moving With Kids, Working Full-Time & Building Your Dream Life Without Losing Your Mind

Moving with three young kids, two full-time careers, packed schedules, and a whole lot of ambition? Saidee is breaking down exactly how her family moved into their dream home while trying to keep life, work, and motherhood from completely unraveling.

In this episode of Who Let Me Do This, Saidee shares the real behind-the-scenes of moving as a working mom: hiring packers and movers, building a “moving village,” decluttering before the move, what went wrong, what was worth every penny, and the things she wishes she had planned for sooner.

From patting dry with an old college tshirt and wire transfer panic to learning how to accept help and make space for rest, this episode is part moving checklist, part motherhood pep talk, and part reminder that building your dream life does not mean doing it all alone.

Perfect for working moms, ambitious women, families moving with kids, or anyone trying to create a more functional life with less chaos.

If you're moving soon or just moved - or just have a ton of shit cause...kids. Make sure you check out Kristyn [@sorted_mpls] who literally saved my sanity heading into this move. 

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Our family has moved into our dream home. We were not looking for the biggest house. We were not looking for the fanciest house. We were looking for the most functional home for our family. Hey, welcome to the Who Let Me Do This podcast, the podcast for ambitious working moms who are building careers, raising kids, and wondering how was everyone else making this work? Because here's the truth what you don't see and what no one's talking about is assistance and support behind every successful woman. I'm your host, Sadie, HR leader in tech and mom of three young kids. And I've had a front row seat to what actually works for women building big careers with families. On this podcast, I'm breaking it down, what it really takes, what no one's telling you, and how to build a career in life that actually works. You'll hear from me and other high-performing women who are doing both and willing to say what most people won't. Come for the honesty, stay for the strategy, and build a village that actually works. You were never meant to do this alone. Make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss an episode and share with another ambitious mom in your life who deserves to live the life that she's worked for. Hey guys, we are back with another episode of the Who Let Me Do This Podcast. And today we are gonna talk all things moving. If you haven't been able to tell from my social media, our family has moved into our dream home, which is so exciting. It's so stressful, it's so overwhelming. Talk about a moment where you feel like a fraud. But we're gonna break it all down for you today. So, first of all, let me start off by saying that we have lived in our starter home for the last eight and a half years, and we have talked about moving fours, and we had every reason not to move. And so if you are sitting here listening to this episode and you are saying to yourself, must be nice, that they can afford their dream home, that they had the ability to move into a dream home. I want to first say that I see you and I hear you because that's how I felt. What I also want you to hear is that we made a lot of sacrifices for a very long time in order to make this happen. We lived well below our means for many years. We lived in a very small home with three children who are rapidly getting bigger, a home that was not meant to work from home in. And as you guys know, I work from home full time. And we have been grinding in our careers. And as the basis of this podcast, I am incredibly ambitious. I have huge dreams, I have huge goals, and the work is starting to feel like it's paying off. So if you are sitting here with envy or jealousy, both those things are normal things to feel. And I welcome those, but I also challenge you to use those to fuel yourself and for what's next for your family. What are you going to do to create that dream life that you have imagined for your entire life? That being said, we're going to talk about moving because not only did we get to move into a beautiful home, my husband and I have wild schedules. We both work full-time. Our kids are in full-time care. We have also entered the phase of our lives where our kids have activities and sports almost every evening, almost every weekend. And our lives are hectic. And I know that every single working mom that's listening right now could not imagine putting a full house-to-house move on their plate. Listen, I hear you. And so when I decided when we decided to make this move, we also decided to make the investment into making this as seamless and painless as possible. So I am going to break down all of those things of what services we used, what village we created for this move to work and happen. Guys, you know, I'm going to give you some hot takes. You also know that I'm going to tell you everything I've done wrong in this move so you can learn from me and hopefully remove even more stress than what I experienced during this move. Okay, so first of all, we knew we were looking for a house. And leading up to even looking seriously, we started to really buckle down on getting rid of things. We tried to do a room per weekend in those little slices of time that we weren't at a baseball game, a gymnastics meet, a birthday party, et cetera. And so in Minnesota, there's something called a bagster. I believe it's $50 to buy the bag at something like Home Depot and then $200 to pick it up. But what it is, is it is a collapsible dumpster that you put on the end of your driveway and you can fill with almost anything. And when I tell you that was such a good investment, instead of trying to make trips to the dump, which also costs money where we live, and be able to throw something out in that bagster, have it at the end of our driveway for a few weeks. I know it wasn't pretty, but it was really useful. And then call someone when we were ready to have it picked up was honestly gold. We filled up two bagsters. So when I say that we were being serious about getting rid of the junk we don't need, we were serious. We probably donated between five and seven carloads of adult clothes, children's clothes, children's toys. And guys, I got on Facebook Marketplace. I have not been a big Facebook marketplacer. Actually, that's not true. I have bought plenty on Facebook Marketplace. I have not sold a lot on Facebook Marketplace, but I've gotten into it a little bit and it was super nice. They, my things were priced to sell. So I didn't get rich, but I got rid of things. And there is something about it for me. I love donating, but when we donate to some of these bigger companies that then turn around and put a price on it, a lower price, but it's just sold back. I don't feel as good about that as pricing something super low or free on Facebook Marketplace and giving it to someone who needs it or really wants it. There's something about that human connection that I really appreciate. And so it was wonderful to even price something for $5 that was worth more, but knowing that it was going to a family that needed whatever that item was. And it was really special, which sounds silly, but it it truly was. The other thing we did, we got rid of about half of our toys through those donations and selling. And once we got rid of all of the toys that our kids have aged out of or they don't like anymore, I actually hired an organizer. You might think this is kind of silly knowing we are going to be moving into a new house, but at the time, I didn't know how fast we would find a home. And what was important to me was that our home did not become miserable in the process of moving and I removed stress leading up to the move. Organizers are not cheap, but they are life-changing. I will drop my organizers information in the show notes. I highly encourage you, if you were in Minnesota, to contact her. She was amazing. Her name is Kristen. Not only was she just fun and warm, but girlfriend got things done. She came into our house, she organized everything in our storage room and in our basement, put piles of things to donate, piles of things to throw away, and piles of things to keep. I went and did a check. In between those checks, I was working. And so again, part of our moving village was Kristen. I believe that ended up costing about $600 for basically a full day of organizing. Huge benefit to Kristen as well is that anything you choose to donate, she takes with her and actually donates for you. So check that off your list. Amazing. Kristen is full service. I will put her contact information. Look her up if you are in the Minnesota area. So we had our house organized. We had decluttered our house a ton. And then we started looking for a house. When we found our house, we were so excited. We were very lucky to end up with the first house we put an offer on. I truly feel like this was meant to be. We were incredibly selective when it came to our home. We were not looking for the biggest house. We were not looking for the fanciest house. We were looking for the most functional home for our family. And I think that's a really important thing for all of us to remember. We live in this consumer culture where you always feel like you need more. You always feel like you don't have enough or you're falling behind. And I very much fall into that trap. And there were moments throughout our home search where we were looking at these massive homes and homes truly that were out of our budget, that we could have stretched and made ourselves really uncomfortable to afford. And thank God we were able to come to our senses and have some real conversations of what is the intention of moving? It is not to prove anything to anyone else. The intention of moving was that our home that we were currently living in, which we still loved, we still loved and it was really hard to leave, it no longer met the needs of our family. Our family was getting bigger, our family was getting busier. And when we look at how we want to live our lives, there were things that our old home couldn't provide for us. Our old home did not have entertaining space. I realized what a privilege it is to have a home that has entertaining space. And that was a very top thing on our bucket list. Another thing was the street we lived on, although it wasn't busy, it was kind of a secret pass-through and got more cars than you want to see on a street when you have kids riding their bikes in a city that doesn't have sidewalks. And the home we found is an incredible entertaining home. It is on a cul-de-sac, which is really what dreams are made of, especially because we are still super close to the city. All of that to be said, we're ready to move. Every single person that I've told that we are moving with three young kids has looked at me like I'm insane and said, Godspeed, best of luck. I understand. And I needed this to be as simple and as painless as possible for the sanity of myself, my husband, my children, and my marriage. So this is what we hired out. We hired packers to come in and pack up our entire home for us. We did not pack a thing. This was expensive, but when I tell you it was so incredibly valuable, I would do it over and over and over again. We had the same company pack us as Move Us, which was amazing. Quick note for anyone who's thinking about getting packers, they will pack every single thing in your house, even garbage. So it is so important that you go through your house beforehand, or you are going to be unpacking boxes that are literally full of wrappers. Not speaking from experience, we did a really good job, but there have been a couple boxes I have unpacked where I have no idea why we were holding on to said item and how it escaped the declutter process in our family. Um, all in all, I believe the packers were about $3,000, between $3,000 and $3,500. Again, this was worth every single penny that we spent. We dropped the kids off at school. The packers showed up at our house. They packed for the entire day. They left before the kids got home. Amazing. Next part of our village that we use were my in-laws. We decided because the house was going to be packed up, it wasn't easy to access anything. Our kids slept at my in-law's house. So we used our born-in-to-village. Andrew and I slept at home, which we'll get into some of the funny stories from this. But one is, like I mentioned, the packers are going to pack up everything. So guess what? They packed up all of our pillows, blankets, and sheets. So we had a really fun evening sleeping on a bare mattress and ended up calling our neighbor, who we're good friends with, and asking for a spare blanket and pillow. And it was kind of like camping. It was very reminiscent of when we first met early in college. And honestly, I slept pretty good because I had no babies crawling in my bed and I wasn't listening for anyone crying in the night. Next morning, we had the movers come. They picked up all of the things from our old house and brought them to our new house. They brought all of the boxes and furniture into the appropriate rooms based on what things were labeled as, as well as where we told them to put things. They did not unpack anything for us. They did put together any furniture that needed to be put together, which wasn't a ton. They were able to move the dressers as is, but there were a couple bed frames that had to be put back together upon me in. The movers themselves cost another about $3,000. Because it was one company, I can't remember the exact split, but I believe they were about the same price for moving and packing. So our final bill for those two services was about $6,000 to $7,000. Again, sticker shock, yes. The fact that I did not spend the last month of my life packing up our house, amazing. The fact that not one thing got broken in the moving process, amazing. The fact that I wasn't asking my 61-year-old father to carry in heavy boxes, amazing. There's just a point in your life where you have to really bite the bullet and realize that it's time to act like a grown-up. And this felt like one of those times for us. Did we pay for unpackers? Sure did not. I have not reached that part of my adulthood. Someday, now that is the next goal for me is if I ever move again, that I have reached a point where I am then going to throw on a couple thousand more so people can unpack it. And I'm just chilling in my house. But people, we are not there yet. We are not there yet. Day of the move, our village showed up again. My mom hung around my house both when the packers were there as well as when the movers were going in and out to help answer questions, just to be there in case they needed anything. On the day of packing, I was still trying to work a little bit. I would not recommend. On the day of moving, we were in and out because we had to go sign our closing documents and run a couple errands before we actually got into the house. I would highly recommend if you can find someone to just be at the house to make sure they don't need anything. It was a super nice perk. Once we got in the house, again, that village showed up. My mom was here helping unpack. My dad showed up to help unpack. Of course, they also wanted to see the house. But while they were here, we kept them busy. My in-laws were here. You guys, not only did they come and bring us food and drinks while we were unpacking and help make the day fun, but they went and picked the kids up for us so we could just keep going, bring them to the house. And they were literally at our house for three days helping us unpack everything. I fully recognize the privilege that we have in having family close by. That is a deliberate decision that we have made. We lived in Michigan for five years and came home to be close to family. And it was very incredible. It made a huge difference to have four adults in the house unpacking boxes, organizing things, and also keeping an eye on the kids. We moved over a weekend, and so the kids were home, exploring the new neighborhood, meeting the neighbors, playing outside. And it was really nice for an adult to be able to step away and help a child or be outside with the child if that's what they needed, and not feel like nothing was getting done. We got so much done this weekend. It was incredible. Finally, the final thing I didn't mention was we actually did use our curated village, which was our old neighborhood, an incredible group of people, the people that made it so hard to finally pull the trigger on finally moving. But we know that obviously they will be our friends for the rest of our lives. Our neighbors during packing and moving day took our dog overnight to allow her to be out of the way, to not have to worry about doors being wide open. And also, I'm pretty sure the moving company had a rule about not having pets in the house. But again, a village we curated, it's very much relationships that we pour into and that we take from. And having people that we know love and care for, our sweet, sweet baby Raja, just as much as us was an amazing burden to take off of our shoulders during those really crazy two to three days of moving. Okay, guys, here are some tips that I want to talk about when it comes to packing. You guys are gonna learn from me on what not to do or what to not forget. So you don't have some of the same situations that I had. The first one is one of my really good friends, she recently moved as well, and she shared with me to pack suitcases as if you're going on a trip. So you know where the immediate things you need are in those first few days of chaos, of unpacking, of not knowing how things were packed, especially if you have packers. Took that to heart, took out the big suitcase, made sure I had everything I needed for my entire family in one large suitcase for the weekend. In my head, I wanted to have everything that we could need that we could not run to Target and go get. If we forgot toothpaste, whatever. But I needed to know where the baseball jerseys were. I needed to know where his baseball mitt was. I needed to make sure everyone had pajamas. Everyone had their stuffies, their pacifiers, their sound machines, that we had pajamas, etc. Pack, pack, peck, peck, pack. I was super focused on the kids. My husband packed himself and then I was exhausted, anxious about the move, threw in some things for myself. Well, LaDie Da, guess what happened? Mom did not fully think about herself when she was packing, which resulted in me not having some very essential things the day of moving day. So, a couple of things that I forgot to pack myself. Yes, I had clean underwear, huge win, don't forget, but I didn't pack myself a clean shirt. Not the end of the world because I could just wear the shirt from the day before. But the other thing that I did not pack myself was soap for the shower and a towel. Okay, so now we're in full camp mode. I have now slept on a bare mattress because I forgot to leave out sheets and a blanket and a pillow for my husband and I. Then wake up in the morning and realize I don't have a towel to dry myself off. And I am a morning shower girly. I just can't get my day going. Ever since having babies, the hormones really do their thing at night, and mama needs a cleanse in the morning. I don't have any soap. And so it's really just a rinse off. Get out of the shower. Don't have anything to dry my wet body off with. So find literally an old ready t-shirt that had gotten misplaced and forgotten to be packed. I don't know if it was clean or dirty, but I did pat, pat, pat, pat myself dry to then go to my suitcase to get myself ready for the day and realize, oh, yep, Sadie didn't pack herself a clean shirt in the same outfit as yesterday. Not the end of the world, but just a couple things to put on your list to remember to pack yourself when you are moving is a clean outfit for the next day. Don't forget the underwear. I did not, but thank God I did not. Deodorant, soap and shampoo for your shower if you're an everyday hair washer. If you're a millennial and you are an everyday hair washer, I don't quite understand that, but I'm not here to judge you. I'm just gonna remind you to bring your shampoo if you need it. And then bring a towel. Bring a towel for the love of God. I cannot tell you what a miserable experience it was to pat myself dry and drip dry with an old ratty t-shirt. Uh, really brought me back. I don't know what it brought me back to because that is not an experience I think I've ever had in my life. And it's not one that I ever want to have again. Other things that I learned throughout this moving experience is that wire transfers take three to five days. This was something we were not informed. And we got to our closing sit-down with the bank guy. I don't know what they're called, not the loan officer, but the guy who works at the bank to sign our closing documents. And I asked him, should I start that wire transfer now so that it starts going while having this conversation? He deadpans, looks at me and says, Oh, you don't, you don't have your wire sent through. And I said, No. And he was like, Well, that's gonna be a problem. Insert complete and utter panic because as I mentioned, people, I did this very seamlessly. I I had the packers come on a Thursday, the movers came Friday morning, we closed Friday at 9 a.m. to get the keys, and then the movers were going to directly go to the new house to start unpacking. We were gonna bang, bang, boom this right out of the park. And so when he looked at me and told me this is gonna be a problem, when I say I almost broke down in tears, I almost broke down in tears. It was one of those moments where you want to cry, throw up, scream all at the same time. Good news is I didn't do any of those. I kept a very calm demeanor. And after the gentleman left with our licenses to scan to start the closing process, I looked at my husband and I was like, oh my God, what are we gonna do? TLDR is it all worked out. We were on the phone with a lot of different people. I became very good friends with the bank that I bank at because I called them every 20 to 30 minutes to ask how the wire transfer was going. But we did end up getting our wire transfer done the same day, got the keys to our house. It delayed our move by a couple hours. But people, we made it in our house. But just know if you are going to do a wire transfer, that's something that needs to be done before you go to sign your papers. That being said, I do have some questions about that because we had our final walkthrough Thursday night, the day before the move. What if I would have wired that money and then gone through the final walkthrough and something would have been wrong? And we wouldn't have been able to close. My understanding of a while-year transfer is once that money is gone, it is gone. So in my head, it made sense that I would wait to give them the money until I was signing the papers to move into my new home. But evidently that is not how it works. So spare yourself the wrinkles, the five years of life that I lost, and get really clear with your loan officer and the bank that you are getting your loan through when to send the wire transfer and how much to send the wire transfer for. Okay, that was a that was a tough experience. I am not done unpacking my house. That being said, we were very intentional that as soon as everything was in the house, we prioritized getting the kids' beds unpacked and set up. We did not worry about clothes. We did not worry about dressers. We did not worry about toys. We just wanted our kids to have a comfortable sleeping space that night. That meant bed frames were put together, mattresses on the bedframes, beds were made, pillows were on the bed, they had their sound machines in there, they had their pacifiers, their blankies, whatever that may be. That was quite literally the only priority that we had that first night. And then we did anything else we could, which was starting to unpack the kitchen. And my goal in the first 24 hours was really to make our lives somewhat livable in the sense that you could move through the house, make a piece of toast, make a cup of coffee, pour some Cheerios, put the kids to bed at the very bare minimum. So that was that was night one was all about the beds. Day two was all about the kitchen and the main living areas. We spend the most of our time together as a family on the main floor. My kids are very much living room kids. They are not bedroom kids. We need their bedrooms to be set up and perfect, but especially my boys, they only are in their rooms when they're sleeping. Lucy's a little bit different. She's got a vanity and she does her makeup and her hair. So we did focus on her bedroom a lot on day two, but not before the kitchen was done. So functionally trying to understand where would my dishes go compared to my dishwasher? Where do the spices go compared to the oven or the stove or where you're prepping food? Where does the Tupperware go? Where do the drink glasses go? I actually find that incredibly stressful. And having my mother-in-law there to think through the process of walking around the kitchen was an incredible benefit. This is also probably a very unpopular opinion, but we took almost everything out for the kitchen and laid it out on the countertops so we could see what was out there before we started to group things together. Because the way things were grouped together at our old house, we're not necessarily going to work at our new house. And I didn't want to do a bunch of putting something away and realizing that wasn't the that was not the most functional solution and taking it out and having to put it somewhere else. I was not trying to create rework for myself. I'm working smarter, not harder, baby, if you know what I mean. That being said, here are the things that I wish we also would have pulled out for our kitchen that we did not find right away and either had to go out and buy or struggle without for quite some time. Pull out your coffee, pull out paper towels, pull out toilet paper, pull out counter spray, and pull out disposable dishes and silverware. We found some of these things, we didn't find all of these things. And then we were scrambling, looking through boxes because I didn't really want to have to buy something I knew I already owned, but ultimately we had to go out and buy some things because I still haven't found the paper towels. We've been here now for four days and I could only go so long with dirty countertops. And I'm just not a reg gal. Okay, I don't know. I know that's a very nice thing to do. To me, they just feel like there is a lot of germs, a little amoebas living on that reg, and I don't need to be wiping that all over my countertops. The other thing that you should also pull out is a way to pay your movers. I did not look into this very carefully. And with the movers we use, we could either pay by check or pay by credit card for an additional 3%. Guys, I'm a very frugal and fiscally responsible person. I will never take an extra fee if I have to take that extra fee. Even if we were not in the midst of a move, the ability to whip out a checkbook out of thin air, even in my last house, was not easy. I'm a millennial. Do I know how to write a check? Absolutely. Do I ever write checks? Not really. Very rare. I have, I do not think I have ever ordered new checks. I think I still have the book of checks that we had when we moved into our house in Minnesota eight years ago. Now I'm going to have to because my address has changed. So that's kind of frustrating. I feel like the society should catch up with that. Maybe our phone numbers should just be in our checks rather than our addresses because we're not writing checks very often. All of that to be said, I did use my credit card. I did get a 3% charge and I'm not happy about it. But you live and you learn. So uh grab that checkbook, grab those paper towels, grab yourself a bath towel and soap. You know, soap for your body. Finally, the last thing I did that I would recommend to everyone is to take time off of work. I took the entire week after moving off of work. I am midway through that week right now. And when I tell you I am so grateful that I am not trying to balance those two things, I am so grateful I am not trying to balance those two things. Like I mentioned, we are in the season of our evenings are filled with baseball, basketball, gymnastics, lacrosse. There is not time to be unpacking boxes in the evening. Also, we're exhausted. We were exhausted before we moved. And when I tell you my body has not been as sore as it was after two days of moving, my body was, my body has not been that sore as it was after two days of moving since I think I was training for my college the cross team. I was so sore. I was so exhausted. And to know that I wasn't going to have to log on and try and find these little cracks in the day to unpack a box, to put something away, to organize a shelf has been such a gift. I, however, did not plan to take off the day that I was being packed because in my mind, I thought the packers will be there. I'll just work and they can ask me a question if they need to, or I'll go somewhere else and work. Honestly, I would recommend if you can swing it, that one of you takes a day off, that your house is being packed up. Ultimately, it's too loud to work from your house if you work from home. And you really do want to have someone there. So unless you and your spouse are both going to go into an office and then you have someone in your village that can come and sit at your house, it really wasn't feasible to work that day. I was very much in and out of meetings. I wasn't focused as much as I like to be. And so if you can swing it, I would really take off that day that packers are there the day that you're actually moving because you literally won't do any work. And then take off some time after you land in that house. I have literally spent my days alone, which we all know that's God's gift to moms everywhere. My kids are fully in daycare. We are using that village to the utmost degree. We have our family helping out with driving the kids around when they can, but I am using the day to one, sit in some silence because it has been pretty chaotic. I am organizing room by room. I'm not feeling rushed. I'm not having to tell anyone else what to do. I'm not having to answer any questions for my kids. I'm not having to make any meals. I am able to just focus on the task at hand. And I have made so much progress. I feel like I am able to actually move in in a way that feels sustainable and feels like I'm not going to have to redo the work I'm doing right now because I'm trying to go as fast as possible. That being said, the other thing I'm doing on this week off is I am resting. I took a 45-minute nap yesterday. When I tell you the life it brought back into my soul, it was so incredible. There was this part of me that felt really guilty of you have this time off. It's meant to get the house in order, but I was dragging. And it's so easy, especially as a highly ambitious person, to feel like rest is a waste of time. It was 45 minutes, I could have been unpacking boxes. It's 45 minutes, I could have been bringing things to donation. It's 45 minutes that I could have been breaking down boxes or bringing them to the recycling center. That being said, I was a wreck. I was so tired Monday morning. It literally felt like the worst hangover of my life without any alcohol. My entire body hurt, my head hurt, my eyes were literally swollen from being so tired. And after taking that 45 minute nap, and went, I also want to clarify, I did not set a timer for 45 minutes. I just let myself fall asleep to see how long my body needed. 45 minutes in the grand scheme of a day, not that much. And I woke up ready and raring to go. I slept fantastic the next night, woke up ready and raring to go. And it is just a really good reminder for myself and everyone listening that even in the busiest seasons of our lives, if you are exhausted, you cannot take care of what you need to take care of, whether it be unpacking your home or taking care of your child. The other thing I allowed myself to do was after my kids went off to school and daycare and my husband went off to work, was sit quietly in the rooms that were finished and watch a show and drink a hot cup of coffee. I know that when I go back to work next week, I'm going to hit the ground running. I'm going to be ready to grind. I am going to be go, go, go, go, go. This is kind of a vacation for me. Is it a super productive vacation? Yes, and probably shouldn't be calling it a vacation, but I am making very intentional time to pour back into myself, get my work done, and feel productive. But remember that it is also productive to rest. Remember, it is also productive to rest. This is the hardest lesson for ambitious working bombs who have big dreams, big careers, and are trying to climb the highest ladders. Give yourself permission, just like I am giving myself permission this week. Last but not least, I have taken my own advice. I have invested this summer in a house manager. This is something I have gone back and forth on for a long time. As you guys know, we already pay for a lot of our village to allow us to have the careers that we want to have. We have a cleaner come in once a month to deep clean the house. We send out our laundry service. We have babysitters. We have all of these different things that have helped make our lives more seamless. And as our careers have continued to grow and as our kids' needs have continued to grow, and as our lives have continued to get busier, there were things that started to pile up and start to feel unattainable and make our lives more stressful. I will do a full episode on why I got a house manager, how I found a house manager, what I'm having my house manager do. But I do have her starting a couple days after we move, which is amazing. I'm going to get this house as far as I can before she starts. But then knowing I have someone to come in and carry on the work, even when I go back to my nine to five, has created this sense of relief that if I do not get every single thing done this week, it's not going to go undone for the next six months to a year of our lives, which would have been a very real possibility if we had chosen not to invest in a house manager for at least the summer. All of that to be said, we have moved. I am in a new space today. I do not know if this is going to be the full-time podcasting space or not. We are still trying to figure everything out. But thank you for coming along on this journey with me. Please send this episode to anyone you know is moving so they don't wake up and have to pat dry with an old college t-shirt that hasn't been washed in 15 years. And make sure you follow along so you never miss an episode of Who Let Me Do This. Talk soon. Okay, that's it. Thanks so much for tuning in to this week's episode of Who Let Me Do This. If this resonated with you, please share with another ambitious mom who's unwilling to choose between her career and her family. You don't have to choose, but you do have to put the systems and support in place to allow you to be successful at both. You were never meant to do this alone. So it's time to start building out that village. Talk soon.