We do have some thing in the kitchen. We brought our juicer, slow cooker, and our knife block. We brought all the peanut essentials. Cups, spoons, pacifiers... We also brought all of our food. I have quite a spice collection. I'm going to guess that I have about 40 different seasoning. Lots of grains in mason jars. Some "milk". Cereal, and a few cans of beans, and various tomato products. I'm hoping to be able to phase out all the canned good soon. I want to be able to can my own stuff once we start our garden.
We did the bulk of the moving last Tuesday. My brother had taken a bunch of boxes up here for us a few days before Christmas, so we ended up with two pick of truck loads. I did much of the moving of the heavy furniture with the mister, and I have really been feeling it since then. Can we say "out of shape?!" I also drove my car up packed to the gills with clothes and things we would be using in the house.
Mister brought 11 garbage bags full of clothes and other things we don't need to the goodwill. I think that's a lot considering I thought I didn't have a lot of clothes.
Finally today I dropped off the last key. It took sooo long and so many days to be done! We opted not to paint and I did very minimal cleaning. All with baking soda, white vinegar, and Castile soap! That's for another post though...
I just needed so badly to be done with that place.
There was huge pile of stuff that had to be gone through down stairs in the dining room. My grandparents have a crab dinner every new years and it had be gone by then...
My grandma has done all our laundry, and I must say it feels nice not to have a huge pile of clothes on my to do list. I got off at 4 two day last week, which allowed us to come home and eat dinner at a reasonable time. My grandpa eats at 6 every. night.
I do miss being able to frequently use only 1 car. I cant walk home anymore...
There still is much to be done. Lots and lots of organizing. I don't know where some things are.
It's almost weird how we seem to be managing on so much less. Space and time, mostly!
I'm still waiting to *really* get back into my rhythm. I know it's going to be a new rhythm but I'm ready! I'm having difficulty getting settled in a way because my work hours have been so crazy last week (the moving week), this week because everyone there is sick and next week because the husband in the family I work for is going out of town.
How has moving been for you and your family? Has it ever taken much longer than you anticipated to become settled? How did you handle it?
I started this on the 29th, and finished it today. So i edited it to appear like it was all done today.
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