Moving Day(s)

Just a quick update as I have too much to do...we finally made it to the house. The truck unloaded all our stuff on Monday. I spent the entire day standing at the curb with a clipboard checking off items as they came off the truck (everything had numbered stickers) while Jack stayed with Colin and Mike worked. Yesterday, the movers unpacked the house. Unpacking for them means taking things out of boxes and piling them on the nearest surface, so the entire house looks like this:

It will be awhile before we can make sense of it all. Many things even ended up in the wrong rooms because the boxes weren't labeled well, so well have to do lots of moving things around. They didn't unpack the garage at all, so we still have about 50 boxes in the garage to go through as well. And, we definitely will need to get rid of some things as we brought too much with us to this new house. Plus, we have some things that worked well in the other house that we can already tell will need to be changed out for something else here. I'm predicting a few months before we are really settled in, but at least we are in. 

I've already started making a few small changes. The pantry walls were so grubby that I quickly gave that small room a white paint job yesterday before starting to put things away. I've also changed out 39 kitchen knobs so far (with more to go in other rooms!). The one on the left is the before and the one on the right is after: 

This morning, we are getting the last of the things from the apartment, and then we will head up to another day of unpacking. Mike had to go in for a meeting this morning, but then he'll be home to help the rest of the day.