We closed on a Friday and spent the night on the floor that night since the movers weren't able to get here until Saturday. Even though they were on the floor, I think the kids were in a blissful state because they actually had a bedroom door that they could shut and have some alone time.
Before we were able to move in we had our first day of school while we were still living in Dublin. This meant 3 hours in the car to take them to school and 3 hours in the car to pick them up from school. Luckily I only had to do that for a couple of weeks before we moved closer to the school.
Our school is a year round school. This means that the kids get a couple of weeks off every few months, every Weds. is an early release day and I think they get the entire month of June off. I love this! I'll take my insanity in small doses please.
They are in the same class this year, which I am SO grateful for. The girl has already made a couple of new friends, the boy takes a little bit longer I think. This past Monday as I dropped them off, the girl jumped out of the car because she saw her friend's Debbie and Maddie waiting for the gates to open. The boy finally got out of the car and went to join them. By the time I picked them up after school the boy was telling me that at recess 'our friends Debbie and Maddie' were all playing a game of store. So that's how you do it folks, if you have problems making your own friends, just hijack some from your sibling.
Alright, back to moving in. The movers showed up with our mountains and mountains of boxes early Saturday morning. It turns out that they only had 1 truck to haul our belongs with, so this meant that they had to make a 2nd trip. With the first load they were just loading things up in the garage to empty the truck in order to go back and get the balance of our things.
As any woman worth her weight will do, you start with the kitchen. That is the heart and soul of your home right? It's where you all come together as a family, and as the kids get older I'm finding that this is about the only time you come together as a family. I unpacked box after box after box of kitchen wares and in the between time directed movers with boxes as to which room that box needed to go in. Somewhere in the midst of all of this I happened to notice something sparkling on the floor, but since I knew that there were probably loose beads floating around in quite a few of those boxes, I just chalked it up to that. As I started to see more and more sparkling I realized that wasn't beads after all and couldn't figure out what it was or where it came from. Then I opened a box of art supplies that had been in the basement. The box had 3 extra large containers of glitter in gold, copper and silver. Guess what? The silver one was open and leaking glitter everywhere the box went. I do believe that box is currently put away in a cabinet and I have mentally marked it as 'deal with it later'. On an up note though, if you want to come visit us in CA, just go to Windsor and follow the glittery trail.
Once I got the kitchen in a functioning state it was on to the bedrooms. It was a good thing that we were all living out of suitcases to begin with. All of our clothing was in boxes, that is other than what had traveled in our dresser drawers. My first find was a box of shoes and my wedding dress. So had it not been for that suitcase I would've been taking the trash out and picking up pizza's in my wedding dress or pajamas's.
By 4pm the movers were working on assembling beds, patio tables and anything else that had to be put back together. I could tell they wanted to get out of there and honestly we were all beat and just wanted some quiet time in our new house. When they left they were unable to get the desk part put together on the boy's bunk bed. Then the mover that was working on our sleep number bed told me that he put it all together correctly but the remotes were out of battery so he couldn't test it. Of course I have a ton of batteries, but which box they are in??? So I took him at his word and signed off on everything. After getting new batteries I found out that no, it isn't working.
After they left I went into the garage to find that the original boxes that they were unloading so they could send the truck back for the second trip, well those boxes never moved from the garage. Most of them are unbelievably heavy boxes of beads and shop hooks for those beads. We packed the beads into gallon zip bags with probably about 12-15 or more bags per box. I don't know if you can imagine just how heavy those boxes are, but we have to find a way to get them upstairs to the new office.
At this point the downstairs is almost done, other than a mountain of broken down boxes in the 2 front rooms. Since we are only allowed to fill up our recycling garbage can and not put anything extra out there, it will be months before we are able to clear all of those out. But since we don't have any furniture to go into those 2 rooms just yet anyway, those boxes are fine where they are.
I've started on the office and just reopened the Etsy shop with just Luna cabochons, (since those are what I found...lol). I even have a couple of sections in the shop sorted... boxes of beads, office supplies and my UFO pile (i.e. Un Finished Objects).
Slowly but surely it is coming together and I am so grateful that we are getting settled. I'm even more grateful that I'm not writing this in my wedding dress.
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