Moving in 48 hours! #Eek!

I am so unbelievably excited. Thursday morning I am heading over to the new place and getting our new keys. We are moving into a beautiful and spacious 1,500 sq foot home with two very large walk-in closets. As we both have singletons right now, having a huge one to walk into sounds h-e-a-v-e-n-l-y!!

Forrest and I have been talking a lot about how we plan on decorating our new place. Luckily, he’s giving me pretty much free range to decorate our new home the way I have always imagined living. We’ve picked out (and agreed upon) our paint colors and we’ve even talked about various ways we’re going to child proof our new home.

The place we are moving onto has no screened in back porch. It has a porch, but — no screen. We also happen to be right on a lake and have two young children. If that doesn’t make a parent nervous, I don’t know what is. Plus the landowners are not wanting to screen in the porches on the properties so we are stuck to protecting within the home to the best of our ability.

We are going to put a porch lock on the porch door — something that the little one can not possibly reach as well as have a little alarm that sounds when it’s open. Our doors have that now — when a door or window opens, it beeps through out the house. I like that and have come to expect it as an indicator that someone is home.

We also plan on putting little night-lights around the house so it will be easy to navigate through the door to get to our children. I have tripped over one too many things in the middle of the night in attempt to get to my older child. I think the safety of the night-lights is more for.. us?

I was trying to think of a way I could gate in the kids while on the porch. Sure enough I am with them, but you always hear of children wandering off in a blink of an eye (Oh how this does make me nervous) and I want to cover all my bases. Unfortunately we’re not allowed to drill into the foundation of the building and we are not allowed to put anything off our porch. So I am not entirely sure how we’re supposed to properly affix something so it securely keeps them in. I may have to break the rules a LITTLE bit just to keep my kids safe. It is, after all, about their safety.

If anyone has any suggestions, I definitely would appreciate it!