1 Week left; Let the chaos begin

So the madness starts today and I won't post for a while. At least until we get settled and get internet at the new house.

Today we have to pack all the things we don't want the packers to touch and place them all together in an area that we can kind of rope off.

Tomorrow: doctor's appointments, cleaning, and my final girl's night out. We are doing SUSHI so excited about this!!

Wednesday: My sister arrives, the packers begin.

Thursday: The packers finish boxing everything

Friday: The truck comes to load up all of our stuff

Saturday: Major cleaning and possibly painting

Sunday: last day to spend as a family because Jeff won't join us for 3 weeks.

Monday: Between 3 and 4 a.m. my sister, the kids, and I start on the road for North Carolina.

Tuesday: Run massive amounts of errands getting power, water, etc for the new house. Pick up keys all that fun stuff.

Wednesday: Go to new house and moving truck arrives to drop off stuff.

I am going to miss my friends here in Ohio, but other than that I am happy to go. Looking forward to my next adventure!!

Things to do when I move

So in the mood of moving I wanted to make a written list of the things to get done at the new place.

Compost bins
garden
fit body
school
rain barrels
learn to sew
decorated home
clothes line
re purpose mirror
Potty train Micah

I am sure that I will add to this list, but there it is.

17 Days

17 days left! I have had to move up our move one day because I found out that we will not have power or water in our house and it takes 24 hours to get it turned on. This week will be filled with purging and cleaning. Also, I have to take down all the items off the walls and patch and paint. Luckily the owners left some paint in the garage so it should be easy touch up.

I feel like I am in the calm before the storm. I just have a few church responsibilities left.

Tonight I am having a girls night and it will be my last hoorah with my favorite girls. Well most of them. It is the group that has kept me sane these last 3 yrs. I will miss all of them so much. They are all so different and have such great qualities about them. I have learned so much from them and I am happy that I was blessed with such great friends. I have always been blessed with wonderful friends. I only hope that I was as good a friend back.

Christina Aguilera

I LOVE HER! As an artist that is. Seriously every album she delivers something that I need and want more of. My favorites are always the ones you don't get to hear on the radio, but I do love the ones on the radio too.

Her voice is pure talent. This new album makes me want to dance. It has given me my new vibe. The first song on my playlist GLAM, makes me want to dress up pretty and walk tall with confidence. I relate so much to her music and she will forever be my favorite artist.

So If you haven't already check out her new album and be energized by her voice and message. I know I have been.

Continued

Yes, clean and purge. Our family does that often actually, but apparently not often enough. At least maybe I need to be better about having a filing system and a place to put paperwork and important documents. I have a system, but it has failed me as I can see now.

I am not naturally organized. I am a 'piles' person. I have piles all around the house. I don't know what to do with things, I don't put them away because I use them here and there, but I also don't want it just laying around anywhere, so the pile starts.

I am much better today than I was 6 years ago when I married my husband. I was a wreck then and he is almost OCD clean.

I have come to the conclusion that I can not focus on my weight loss right now. It is not the important issue in my life right now and thinking about it is making me crazy. I need to focus on my kids and keeping myself sane. I know some of you are thinking 'well keep yourself sane by exercising everyday and eating right'. And you are right if those were my habits already, but trying to change my habits right now, just to have everything change in a few weeks. I'm just not going to do it.-there it is.

I have my whole life ahead of me and I want to enjoy myself and this may sound weird or crazy or whatever, but it makes sense to me. I will not weigh myself or worry about what I am eating. Now don't get me wrong I'm not running out to the store to stock up on donuts and ice cream and whatever else. I am still eating my vegetables, just not making myself crazy about it.

My sister is coming out to help me with the kids drive to North Carolina and I am so excited to see her. We have such a great time together and she is always up for anything like me. It is going to be so fun.

24 Days Left

How does one family collect so much stuff??? We have been cleaning out our house for the last 6 months of things we don't use/need anymore. On Tuesday I did another walk through of the house to get out more trash for trash day and I filled 3, yes 3, garbage bags full! I mean I have got to set up a better system so we don't have it just lingering around. I even consider us clean people. It is mainly just paperwork.

I can tell you right now that I know that I probably have another 2 or 3 bags full in the basement still too. I am getting rid of toys that don't work, have missing parts, or I'm just plain sick of. The kids have a moderate amount of toys, but it's like they have babies and multiply overnight. I was able to get rid of some bigger items yesterday, I LOVE CRAIGSLIST! At this point I am just giving stuff away. And I am getting it out of the house as soon as possible.

To be continued, I have to go run a errand.................

29 Days

Time is flying by. HOLY MOLY.

I had two days of bad eating, no time for exercise, and little sleep.

I went for a run this evening and am headed to bed to catch up, well as a new mom you never really catch up, but at least get a good nights rest.

So my exercise routine is now going to consist of walks and runs because our Y memebership expired and it won't be renewed. Anyway, I'm okay with just putting the kids and going because in NC that is how it will be too. So better to get use to it now, right.

So, tomorrow 4 weeks left. HOLY MOLY!