We had a 1 yr old and 2.5 yr old and we used removalists. Best thing we ever did. I had someone take our 1 yr old out for a few hours between feeds, and DD went to my parents. They need to be out from underfoot.
As far as nappies go I just kept using them. Laundry was easily set up once the washing machine was in, and my dry pail bucket that had 2-3 nappies in it just went in a car instead of the truck.
We are lucky both dd's go to daycare so I have arranged for them to go an extra day. Ds will be with me though, I am packing a tub with everything I need, he has just stopped bf so I am packing the kettle, formula, nappies (will still use cloth), clothes etc.
We are using a removalist too, and we have a few people on hand to help with unpacking and cleaning so I can be with Ds if need be.
We are getting the girls to help pack their toys and we will let them see the truck arrive. Dd1 has chosen her room already too.
I used removalists, had a 2yr old and 3-4mth old.
I switched to disposables for the move, but we moved NT -> Qld and had to cram into my parents house for a month or so.
If you can, giving the kids to someone to watch as much as you could really helps with the packing. Removalists if you've got the money are worth the money.
We put the kids into child care for one day and the other two days (as we were moving ourselves) we had DH's aunt come over and entertain the kids at the new house for us...
We moved out of all the rooms that we could while we were still living in the house - we had 2 spare rooms as our (at the time) 5 month old was in our room and our 18 month old was in her own room. We moved boxes into the garage as they were packed and completely cleaned the 2 spare rooms and closed the door before we actually moved out. We also packed up the lounge, dining and kitchen slowly over 2 weeks and moved those boxes into the garage. We have a lot of stuff in our kitchen that we don't need for everyday use and we just survived with a minimum number of plates, bowls, cutlery, glasses, saucepans, frypan and cooking utensils. We left most of our big furniture where it was for moving day but all books and DVDs, linen, photo frames and display items etc were packed up. We also packed one suit case each and lived out of that and packed the rest of our clothes.
On moving day, we moved into my parents' house for a few days (maybe 3). DH and I spent the days at our new house unpacking and at our old house cleaning and Mum looked after our kids. She also made our meals so we didn't have to think about food and cleaning up afterwards. We slept there at night time too. It made life a lot less stressful to not have to try and have everything set up for food and sleep. We got take away for lunch so we didn't have to go back to mum's in the middle of the day - we also didn't need to clean up afterwards or do any preparation.
When DD1 & SIL moved we looked after the boys for a few days so they could get things done.
Use family or friends where you can, if they offer accept, as many helpers you have the quicker things get done.
Write lists of what get done now and what gets done later. Also write on the boxes so you know what is in them and others know which room to place them when unpacking.
we are gonna have tons of helpers at both ends and i do have the daycare here so jamie will probably go there unless its the weekend and i'll use his wednesdays to start packing up stuff that doesnt get used just the hard thing will be the baby coz we will still be breastfeeding unless something drastic happens from now till then but i do have a baby carrier and i can put her on my back so she wont be in the way the boys will be moving the heavy stuff so we should be ok i have lots of family
removalists are out of our price range but we do have a few big strong blokes to help out we have a small truck and trailer which will fit most of our stuff
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Any tips on moving with 2 young children?
we have a small truck and trailer which will fit most of our stuff
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