Moving

Moving sucks!

Prior to this move, I'd only ever moved from my parent's house to my first house. At the time, we didn't have much stuff and virtually no furniture. This time was a whole different ball game.

I have essentially been packing for 4 months. Before we put our house on the market, we packed a lot up so we could declutter and stage our house. Then our house sold so we kept packing a little at a time. By the time moving day came, all we really had to pack up was out bathroom, a little stuff in the kitchen, and our big furniture.

Luckily, we were able to get the keys to the new house about 5 days earlier than expected. That gave us a chance to move some stuff over, get some cleaning done, and a little more time to move. Even with that, it was all an exhausting blur.

I don't know how we accumulated so much stuff in the last 13 years. I also have no idea how we fit it all in our tiny house. Everything from our 1100 square foot house is now in our 2500 square foot house and our new house still feels full! Because we had to be out in such a rush and we moved at the end of the school year when I was trying to pack up my classroom, we didn't purge the way I would have wanted to when we packed. So as we unpack, we plan to really look at things and decide if we still want/need them or if we can let them go.

We are moved, but we are so far from unpacked! For the most part, we tried to put boxes in the room they belong in, but that's about as far as we got. Our first night in the house, we couldn't find toothbrushes and toothpaste so we searched through boxes until we could brush our teeth. It was a pain. Yesterday, we worked on putting essential boxes away: clothes, bills, and the kitchen. Today, I'm going to work on bathroom boxes and more clothes. Unpacking is definitely going to take a while!

We were very blessed to have a lot of help moving: one of my sisters and her husband and kids, my best friend and her husband and kids, two adult nieces and nephews, and my in-laws. I don't know what we would have done without them! Now that we are all moved in, we can unpack a little at time.

We will miss our old house terribly, but we are very excited to make new memories in this house and to make it our home!