IN CHAOS NOW...

I'm not sure why we came up with "One Shy of Chaos" to describe our lives and family...we are definitely IN CHAOS right now!!  My house is feeling like it's turned upside down to me right now.  Although, if you didn't know we were moving in 3 weeks (yes, 3 weeks people!), you would think we were just slightly messy people if you came into our house.  It's so frustrating for me to not be able to see any progress since we're not actually doing the packing. 

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!" :)