Moving Day! May 7th

Although there are a couple of minor details and one small project to do in the laundry room (replace the tile under the washer and dryer), we decided we could actually move stuff into our house.  We hired two men to come and load up our stuff at the storage unit and then unload it at the house.  They also helped us move some stuff up from downstairs like our piano and Jena's bed.  The movers did a great job and we were so grateful for them.

Loading the U-Haul from....

our storage unit  (didn't get a picture of the unit filled up)....

back and forth until it was now in the U-Haul.

and around the block to our house.

And now we have boxes and furniture and so much to do to put our house and our lives back in order again.

We have too much stuff....

but I don't think you can have too many books.  I was so excited to start loading up my new book case in our Library room.

It is now May 18th and we are mostly through the boxes upstairs, but now need to tackle the basement stuff.  

It was so wonderful to sleep in our OWN bed a couple of days after the move.  It has been 4 years since we have slept in it. We have a Sleep Number Bed and Gary was able to put it together using YouTube videos despite our older technology and it works! I was concerned that I had missed this bed so much that it would be disappointing to sleep in it again--maybe my memory was better than the actual reality.  Nope, it is heaven. Gary is a rock star in figuring things out and making it work.

Jena posted on our family thread that it was Christmas with so many gifts (boxes) to open. I know what she meant as it was so nice to see familiar things that mean things to me--even a simple book or a piece of pottery.  It all has meaning...well, most of it.  The kitchen stuff not so much. ;)
 

Let the nesting/settling in begin.