Meanwhile, our household goods arrived on the 14th and our house has virtually exploded its contents out into the carport and beyond. We're slowly sorting our way through things. A HUGE pile is being donated to Heather to have a garage sale to raise money to take things to the orphanage in Ethopia where they are adopting their daughter (who is only 2 weeks older than Brianna!). The pile is expanding by the day as we slowly make our way through the boxes - no easy feat with an active 2 year old and an almost 1 year old that needs almost constant attention. It's exhausting.
We hope to have sorted through everything and gotten our house in livable order by the end of next week. B had last week off, but he's back to work today. The bright side is that he doesn't work days, and really only works about half the month, so he's around during the day to help, and has a lot of time off!
So here are some pictures of our exploding house:
This is the outside last weekend - we couldn't fit everything INSIDE the house, so we had to fill the carport. The delightfully ugly furniture is the "loaner" furniture we used for three weeks while we waited for our household goods to arrive.
B taking a break from the hard work - this is the backside of the family room, we're making it into a playroom for the kids and my desk will be in the corner
The family room, with the gargantuan television that is about half the size of the room - but B refuses to get rid of it. Don't worry, some of that furniture will go in storage...eventually...
The laundry room - it's a little more organized now, but has three piles of boxes stacked about 7 high filled with books. I have a book collecting problem.
The kids room - the first one that I unpacked all of the boxes, for fear that Garin would try climbing and be buried in them. We still haven't put up the crib yet, that'll probably be the last thing we do:
Our room, which is a daily project. We just have so much stuff. I'm trying to get rid of a lot of our clothing.
This is our problem room. It's the guest room. Well, it's SUPPOSED to be the guest room. The idea was that I'd put both of the children in one room so we'd have an extra room to put guests, and we could put one of our desks with the computer. Well, B gets this idea that it's HIS room. I'm working on getting that idea out of his head, because for three years in GA he had "his" room that was filled with "his" stuff that never really got put away. It was a nightmare. So I refuse to have that problem here. Meanwhile...where do we put "his" stuff (his stuff is all of his "gear". I'm not really sure what that means, but I think it's something to do with a nuclear holocaust and having all the equipment to meet up with the other survivors to start the new society. Or something. It's probably really just a lot of paintball equipment and the surround sound for his computer gaming system).
The one room that is finished - the kitchen. Thank you Heather. It really is vital that the kitchen get set up and ready to go right away. I'm at peace here. The drawers may only be nine inches wide and the counters are made for someone in a wheelchair, but at least everything is put away.
I've learned many lessons from this move. Most importantly - get rid of stuff BEFORE you move, not after.
I've learned many lessons from this move. Most importantly - get rid of stuff BEFORE you move, not after.
