It's been two weeks since my last post? I thought I was just here! :)

Progress has been made in the new house. We are trying to paint the entire interior of the house as it's in desperate need of an update. Not only the color, but the walls have been terrorized by children for the last few years and it shows. Adisson's room was painted two different shades of green by the homeowners and due to the amount of work that needed to be done in such a small room, that's where we started. We finally finished it, the downstairs bathroom, and we're nearly done with the den downstairs. We've put the first coat on several walls upstairs but haven't really started in the bedrooms. Fortunately, I have some AMAZING friends who are coming over to help me paint today. I am hoping we can defy time constraints and get A TON of painting done. We'll see....

Packing is going ok. We've kinda stopped at this point, however. We've already packed up so many non-essentials that it's hard to do much more until later this week. At some point, I'll need to pack a suitcase for the kids to have so they have access to clean clothes while everything else is boxed up. Then the rest of the packing can commence. I think we're doing alright. Adam, however, is starting to panic a little that we aren't going to get it all done. I remind him that there is no other choice, that it will be done regardless, we'll just see how hectic it is to finish!

The carpet gets installed in the new place tomorrow, hence the need to finish painting this weekend. Our amazing landlord told us that after the carpet is installed, we can start moving stuff in. We also need to purchase all new blinds for every window (there aren't any currently) so this week I think we'll be taking a few boxes over everyday and installing mini-blinds and building bookshelves.

I've got to get some stuff cleaned up while Adam is out. He's running a few errands and then heading to the house to do some prep work before I head over with my friends. We're having a heckuva time trying to get a few last minute items and it's really starting to stress him out. Moving can be the pits. But one week from today I'll be waking up in our new house, with new carpet, new paint, new blinds, new lights (errr, maybe!) and all my little guys in their own rooms. Sometimes we get tunnel vision and focus only on what's currently going on and forget to see the bigger picture. I hope I can remind Adam today what the bigger picture is. :) All this hard work will pay off.

Finally, a Dedicated School Room

Packing has slowed to a crawl. We are currently at 21 boxes and twelve 30 gallon tubs (10 of them are filled with school stuff). We still have 17 days until we start moving in and still need a lot of day to day stuff (or so we think) so we aren't sure where to go from here, I guess. My goal for tonight was, and still is, to finally get the school closet finished.

When we moved here, we set up our living room and our dining room which are techinally in the same room. I hate open floor plans, by the way. That left us another space in the back of the house. Some of my neighbors use it for their dining room and the rest use it for a playroom for the kids. Because we have so much school stuff, I knew what the primary use for the room would be. But....I never really committed to this room being our school room. It has our desks set up and our dry erase board on the wall. We have (had) our laminated maps put up, a few other school things, but this never really became a learning room for us. I vowed to the boys that things would be different in our new house.

In our new place, we have a living room and a den. Adam also has his own game room and the boys have all their own rooms as well. To me, with the season of life we're in now, it doesn't make sense to me to have two "living" rooms. So I've decided that the den downstairs will be our dedicated school room. Bookshelves, learning tools, tables, chairs, books, toys. The works. We have it, we just never get the stuff out because it's in the school closet. That will finally change.

I'm pretty excited to turn that room into a place where we can all be and learn and have a good time. Where unfinished projects have a home, where books have plenty of room, where toys are welcome. Pretty excited indeed.