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[quote=Anonymous]Welcome OP!  Have you found a neighborhood listserv?  Hopefully one geared towards parents or with lost of families one it?  That will help you a lot in sussing things out.

I never moved with kids but I moved many many times as a young adult and remember the disoriented feeling of not knowing where to go for random stuff like, I needed buttons and cloth and felt-- where was the nearest fabric store?   Post office?  UPS?   Craft store?  Place to get the special kind of (whatever) I needed?   Funky Christmas ornament stuff?   LIbrary?

I found it was helpful to make a list of all the places I would go in a season and then get directions/hours to each place.   Nowadays I'd program them into my GPS.  Maybe you could ask one of your teens to take on that kind of a project?

The good thing is once you get some of the items on your to do list done, you will feel monumentally better.  It's not incremental so much as exponential I think.   ALso it helps to set up some routines that you do as a family right away in a new place.   Like, go to the same restaurant for dinner one night every week (or something cheaper).  [/quote]

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