The MOVING One!

I haven't actually gotten excited about this move yet. I've been more overwhelmed w/ it all. Who knew that packing w/ 5 little ones wouldn't be a walk in the park? LOL!! I have had half filled boxes knocked over, glasses broken, fully packed/waiting for tape boxes unpacked by a certain 1 y/o, toys unpacked and played with. Not to mention that as I'm packing the laundry is piling up. It's almost as bad as shoveling in a snow storm. LOL!

But I'm pretty excited that we're actually finally moving. Still no actually closing date. They are saying "end of the month/beginning of next" still. I hate not knowing. *sigh*

We're doing whatever we can to put an offer on a place in VT. It has 10 acres of woods... and the house is a little bigger than our current home. The house isn't actually ideal, but we love the land. So we'll see what happens with that.

An Accomplished Day

I love it when I get a TON done in a day.

Today it's only noon and here's what I've accomplished:

• Kitchen decluttered and cleaned
• floors swept and mopped
• bathroom cleaned
• 3 loads of laundry washed, dried and folded waiting for kids to put theirs away still
• dinner in the crockpot
• Dishes Done
• Living room cleaned and ready for vacuuming
• Refilled ink cartridges
• oven cleaned
• kids rooms cleaned and ready for vacuuming

Pretty good for just being up for about 5 hrs so far. :) I love days like this!!

The One with Hives and More Cleaning

I borrowed my "little" brother for today so I'd have some help in the basement and/or with the children. "little" brother is 17... but isn't so little anymore. We're getting a lot done, actually. It's a great feeling.

I'm going a bit slower than usual tho. I woke up covered in itchy hives. I have no idea why... but they are so miserable that I took benadryl, which has been exhausted. I am almost falling asleep writing this. So need to get back to work so I can wake up, hopefully.

*yawn*

Side Note: Potatoe salad was very yummy last night. :)

The One With All the Craziness

As of today our house is on the market. The ONLY issue may be that we have a shared well & can't find the deeded rights to it????? Scary business... but otherwise it's on the market and we'll see what happens from here. Good thing it's not in our hands! ;)

The realtor gave me a huge list of things to do to help enhance our selling prospects. So I've started that today... and it's a lot of work. Doesn't help that I have a teething baby... or at least I hope it's just teething & nothing else. And a toddler who is going through a crisis every 1/2 hr or so. *sigh* Right now he's trying to climb on my lap... eek.

I'm taking a quick break from cleaning... I just finished the front closet and that was a lot of work.

This is good tho. I needed to declutter and get rid of things.

The One Back To Reality....

Matt and I had a wonderful anniversary weekend. We went to antique shops and ate out... I did no cooking except to make coffee Sunday morning. We also did some clothes shopping for the kids... which is MUCH easier w/out the kids. We came home and relaxed and just enjoyed being 'us' again for a few days. (With Alyssa in tow of course!!) It was awesome to have quiet conversations that were uninterrupted and snuggle time that was uninterrupted. It was nice to decide when we wanted to do things w/out having to take kids into consideration. :)

Now it's back to reality and boy is it reality. THe kiddos are all fighting and complaining about everything. They are overtired from staying up late at Grandma's. No big deal... it's just a nice dose of reality. LOL!

So this week I want to get the boys room cleaned out and organized & do a bunch of spring cleaning/de-cluttering/organizing throughout the house. I did it to the kitchen a few weeks ago and it's been great!! I love how clean and homey it feels.