April 19, 2015

God is Moving Mountain,err...us

So we moved...

We made it, and we are making this house a home. 

I still haven't gotten around to getting together all my photos of the move, but my method this time worked! I got everything unpacked in 2 weeks. Unpacked...and put away for the most part. The only boxes left are those of EJ's 'baby' items, that need to be sorted through and reboxed up. 


When packing the boxes, I labeled them all with a sticker that had the room and a number on it. They were color coded. Then in a binder I had a spreadsheet with the room name at the top and numbers down the side, here is where I wrote what was in each box. So when it came to unpacking and I needed something right away, I could go right to my binder to know what box to look in. 

At the new house, I labeled every room with a color coded label, and the movers brought the boxes to the specific rooms. When it came to unpacking, I started in the kitchen, and I did box 1-30. Not jumping around, not opening another box before one was completely empty. I did this throughout the whole house, one room at a time, one box at a time. It went so smoothly!!! I can not believe how well it went. 

Now, I did have my mother in law here. What a blessing! She took care of the kids and normal household duties so I could just power through. She cooked, she cleaned, she did the laundry! It was so helpful! 

When I get things on the walls, and the curtains changed...I will post before and after photos of the house. 

That is all for this post! Don't worry I have more to say!

Signing off

~*KJ*~

March 2, 2015

A Giant Game of Tetris

Started major packing today. Which included repacking boxes packed back in January, due to not being full enough. I guess when you use professional movers, they don't care how heavy the box is, just that is is full and won't crush. Works for me :). 
Then we moved packed boxes from one side of the basement to the other. It was like a giant game of tetris, getting them all to fit in a space, and getting things to fit in the boxes. Oh what fun!

Tomorrow it continues, until well, the end of the month, when the truck comes. Thankfully we don't actually have to carry everything from the basement to the truck. Totally looking forward to that this time. 

We've taken care of every move ourselves, execpt hiring a local moving company for the heavy furniture that won't fit in our vechicles. This is new to me getting to use movers. If we weren't moving to the other side of the mountains, I'm sure we wouldn't be using movers. I'm super excited we don't have to drive a giant trailer rental truck through the mountains!

At some point I will take a photo of the boxes, and the way I've chosen to organize them. I've gotten really into organizing lately. So I started a binder, with labels, and I'm really hoping this move goes smoother than the rest. I'll let you know ;)

I'm going to go spend some time with The Lord via The Word. 

Good Night

~*KJ*~