Everything in the house has to be sorted into the appropriate pile...1) Take it with me on the plane, 2) AIR ship it to us in 10 days, 3) I can live without it for 2-3 months while it sails across the ocean, or 4) Crate it and get it outta here for 2 years while we're gone--I'm sure we'll be fine without it!
Thankfully Danielle (my baby sissy) and my mom came over and spent 2 days helping me separate and sort ALL of the kitchen cabinets. It's now quite comical to watch me attempt to cook dinner and find the "thingamajig" that I need to cook with. It's all hodge-podged around in a different spot and I'm trying to keep all of us limited to using only the things we're going to AIR ship. I was sooo mentally drained by the time we were done that night--and just from making decisions about what stays and what goes. Yeesh!
I have to credit Denise (my other sissy) too for being such an awesome distraction and babysitter to CJ, Ashlee, & Colt while we've been purging, sorting, and carting things away! She has taken them for the night, to airplane pulls, birthdays, movies, and just to play with Oreo outside~~what a lifesaver that has been to have an extra set of hands! Thank you! :)
Oh, and did I mention the original kids clothes sorting/selling undertaking that I started the whole purging process with (16 bins of clothes in the storage room!!)??! Well, poor Denise was there for the entire evolution that started out very gung-ho on my part and ended with me saying "Screw it! I'm taking the rest of it to a consignment shop to sell it FOR ME!!" Thank you for being patient while I came to that most-logical conclusion. xx
(In case you're lost, I haven't EVER gotten rid of kids clothes until now!! I don't recommend this approach to being nostalgic and thinking one of your future kids will wear it. Big mistake...HUGE!!)
On that note, I will sign off and hope that I have some news on a sale of our "Big Red Bus" *sniff* and that our house has been rented with my next post!
Thank you, Lord, for making it all SLOWLY come together for us!!
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This is Ashlee on a Tuesday night (in her magician costume)..."Welcome to our Circus!" :)
