Happy Halloween!

Slowly Moving

I thought moving one room at a time would be a good thing. I am not really sure if it is or not. So far the only room that is officially there is Mia's simply because no one uses her stuff. I had enough paint left to paint a wall pink in her new room, so it is ready.

Since I painted EVERYTHING in that house last fall, I really just need to do a bit of touch ups and paint the main bathroom before we officially move in. Tim will be hauling over outside stuff and weights this weekend. I want to wipe down cupboards and buy some window coverings this weekend. Hopefully it will be a productive weekend.

Cleaning, theraputic?

The 19th we begin hauling our stuff one room at a time to our first house. That house is about half the size of this one. So I have been cleaning cupboards, closets, toy rooms, anything I can get my hands on. It is hard to imagine all the junk that we have accumulated. Sunday Tim hauled 20 tubs of stuff to his mom's to store for our spring garage sale. I have more now from cleaning out the toy room. I didn't even count the bags I took out for the garbage man! All this purging of "stuff" seems very theraputic. Is that weird? It feels good to let go of it.

Since the house is smaller, I am looking at different ways to try and maintain order and organization. I found an awesome idea for a kid magnet board at this site: http://theidearoom.blogspot.com/2009/07/kids-organizing-bulletin-board.html
I will modify it to suit our space, but thought it was great.

If you have any ideas, please share.

Birthday #4!

Christian turned 4 this week. He was very excited about that.

Movin'

It looks like we will be moving to our other house, you know the one that never sold and we have rented in the past. No one has looked at our current house in quite a while. They have pulled fliers and asked to walk around the backyard, but no showings or offers to buy. Our renter leaves sometime in October and we will begin moving one room at a time. The house is about half the size, so we will have one big ole garage sale in the spring.

1st grader

Today isn't Carter's first day, but I thought the other boys had their picture taken--he should too. Carter is taught at home by me. This causes quite the uproar sometimes among family members. However, we (Tim and I) feel that this is the best setting for him at this time and we are very lucky to be able to do this.

Preschool