Yeah For Tuesday
Happy Tuesday everyone! How was your holiday weekend? I always feel like Memorial Weekend is my summer kickoff even though it’s still officially spring. Mentally the weekend just makes me feel that summer has finally arrived, AND it’s ok to wear white.
I spent the bulk of my weekend working but I’m so thrilled with life right now I didn’t care (though I think my kids were annoyed I put them to work, and we didn’t go somewhere and just have fun).
Even though we don’t have to be out of our current house until June 15th the fact that both Matt and I are crazy busy right now with work and we only have our kids ½ the time means it cuts down on time available to get things packed and ready.
It’s crazy the amount of crap one family can accumulate. We threw away or gave to Goodwill, an enormous amount of stuff when we sold our house last year and moved into the rental. In December, I rented a 10-yard dumpster over the school break, and we spring cleaned (knowing we would be moving this summer). Filled that thing up to the top and even had to pay a small overage charge due to the weight of the container.
And yet there is still SO MUCH CRAP.
The other thing that makes this move a little logistically tricky is we are having a lot of work done on the house, and it just won’t be done before we have to move. So I don’t want anything more than we absolutely have to have in the new house until it’s done. I don’t want to be constantly moving furniture from one place to another.
I told the kids to pack 2 suitcases with clothes for the next 2 months and one box of their personal stuff. The rest of their rooms, except their actual beds, will be in storage until the house is finished.
Matt and I packed up all the easy stuff in the house that we can live without for 6 weeks, and all this stuff went into the 16ft POD I had delivered last week.
All that’s left is the big stuff and our personal items. In 2 weeks, I have another 16 ft POD coming, and movers to move all the heavy stuff into to POD for storage and to move our beds and remaining stuff to the new house. Then at the end of July we can do it all again.
As much work as it will be, the end result will be so worth it. Finally having our forever home is worth the wait!
So if I miss a few days posting over the next couple weeks you’ll know why. I’m in moving hell:)
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