We've moved into our new home and are slowly getting settled. I can't believe how hard it is to find a place for everything. The last time we moved into a house, I only had 1 child. Now with 3 it seems like a challenge just to get the normal things done during the day, let alone unpack everything. My first goal is to get everything from the apartment unpacked. That was the bare necessities we were living with for those few months. The rest, which was in storage, is now packed into the garage.
I'll give myself awhile to get that done, maybe 6 months or so. I have to take time and be sure things are in just the right spot. I hate just throwing things into closets and onto shelves, thinking I'll come back to it later and organize. 3 years later, it's still there. So I'm determined to do it right, even if it means being VERY slow. My goal was to have everything put away by this last weekend. But my sister Kim surprised me with a visit, so of course we had to play instead of unpack. We had lots of fun shopping and eating and watching movies and getting too full from our yummy Baskin Robbins shakes.
So now I've got to get into gear and actually get something done. Not walk into a room, look around, feel overwhelmed, and promptly walk out, somehow thinking that by waiting until tomorrow it will all make sense. My inlaws are coming next week and I really want to look like I have some sense of order in my life and home. Oh how these boxes and piles taunt me.
I'm sending out change of address cards in the next few days so many of you should get one. If I miss someone, just blaim my crazy chaotic life right now, send me a quick note and I'll email my new address.
5 comments:
Good luck unpacking and good for you to take the time and do it right. I'm still being cursed with just throwing things somewhere and two years later I'm still trying to get it all organized! How fun for you and Kim to spend some time together!
Sounds like fun and I can relate! How fun to have Kim surpise you, and you house is so cute! I can't wait to see pics of the inside! good luck with all of those boxes! Somehow to me they seem to reproduce spontaneously! I swear I unpack one and then go out to the garage to find 3 more! I love having an unfinished basement, because I keep saying, "I don't know what to do with that. I'll just throw it in the basement."
Yeah! It's nice to see your new house. It's so cute! Good luck with the unpacking. It's such a pain. Love and miss you!
wow, who took that awesome picture of your family:)
thanks for letting me come hang out. i'm still craving chocolate shakes.
i was thinking about you today--i'm making gracie's cake and forgot the parchment paper. you've taught me well, but somehow i still mess up!
it's so cute!
you and kim and cute too.
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