Moving Along

I’m back!  Well, I never really left – I just moved a little.  Or a lot.  As in, an entire house.  Which had more than a little stuff in it.  So right now I’m knee-deep in boxes (actually, chest-deep in certain rooms) and this is the first time I’ve opened my laptop in several days other than quickly turning on Netflix to entertain the kids for a few minutes while I attempt to make sense of these boxes.  Have I mentioned that we have TOO MUCH STUFF?

The kids are thrilled with the move.  They love their new playroom in the basement filled with STUFF, all the new closets to fill with STUFF, all the boxes of STUFF they can paw through.  Oh, and they love all the TV they’ve been watching while I unpack and organize.  It’s a kid’s dream come true!  (And a mama’s too – it’s a gorgeous house – although I’m still feeling very sentimental about our last one.  I found myself the other day crying as I scrubbed the toilet in our old house because it was the last time I would ever clean those toilets.  Which is an entirely new reason for me to cry when it comes to cleaning!). 

So we’re all good.  We’re settling in, trying to figure out which light switch controls what, hanging curtain rods so we all aren’t woken up at early hours by a beautiful but entirely too early sunrise (too bad that hasn’t helped Danny!), and meeting new neighbors including a fox, deer, uninvited ants, and an adorable chubby animal that we think is a groundhog.

Oh, and before I go unpack more boxes of STUFF, I want to thank all the people who have helped us with this move – Maria, Uncle Jeff and Aunt Mary, Ashley and Uriah, and especially Jim’s Mom and Dad.  We literally couldn’t have done this without you!  And thank you to everyone who was praying and supporting us from afar.  We love you!