J and I have found ourselves in an all too familiar scene; living around boxes. The decorations are taken off the walls and carefully wrapped, things you don’t think you’ll need (like stamps) but then of course have to find have become impossible to locate, and we’re almost to the stage of digging in boxes for clothes in the morning. We’re in transition with our move between our “little house” and our “big house”. Currently we’re living in the little home while finishing up painting rooms in the big home. So far we’ve painted the master bedroom, master bathroom, master closet, J’s office, my office, the guest room, and the upstairs bathroom. Those were the rooms we planned on painting before we moved in anyway, in addition to the kitchen, (which is currently green). Then we were hoping to take a Friday off and have a long weekend to move over our bed and kitchen stuff and get it all set up how we wanted it. But with all good plans, they change.

We anticipated having 1 house guest this weekend for the upcoming Sudsfest at the local museum, but yesterday we were informed we’ll have 5 additional people and 1 dog coming to stay. With only 1 bathroom in the little house, and no fenced in back yard, there’s no way we can make that work. This makes the end of our week crunch time on moving. So today we’re packing up as many necessities as we can and loading it up in the back of the cars to move.

Hopefully we can get most things unpacked and in some order before our guests arrive. It’d really be best if we all didn’t have to camp on the floor on air mattresses, but then again, who doesn’t want to relive a little bit of their childhood and pull all-nighters in the living room ‘forts’? I think this might even work out for the best; for one, it’s forcing J and I to move. Otherwise we’d drag out bringing the boxes over and going through the hassle since we already have somewhere to live that isn’t going anywhere. No one is kicking us out, and the little house isn’t even up for sale yet. There’s a few more projects left on that house anyway, and it’ll be easier to complete when it’s not full of our stuff. Plus I’m extremely excited to have some guests come stay with us. Sometimes I feel like a huge introvert because I don’t want to be around people, and other times I’m dying for someone to come see me. Recently we haven’t had any new faces show up, so this weekend should be super fun!