This is the stock photo of our new home. It is gorgeous. Six bedrooms/5 bathrooms. Crazy. And I am so blessed to be able to have it. We move in just 10 days. My house right now looks like a hurricane hit it. I cannot stand the chaos - the packed boxes stacked in the living room ready to be moved. The constant cleaning up and clearing out. I scrubbed the bathrooms on Saturday because I needed something in this place to be clean! Thank goodness I work and do not have to be at home and look at this stuff! I must say, even though this is our 6th home and 6th time moving, this time around it is going to kill me. I am really getting too old for this. I have never felt overwhelmed by packing before. It is just packing. You put things in boxes and label them. Not hard. Not rocket science. But this move has proved to be challenging. We have accumulated STUFF. And, FYI, I HATE stuff. So I have been caught up in the getting rid of stuff and paring down before I pack, hence the stress and extreme anxiety. As I said above, my new house is gorgeous. The floors are all hand scraped maple. The carpentry work is amazing - trayed ceilings and crown mouldings and chair rails everywhere. The tiles and chandeliers and awe inspiring - even my main floor powder room has a custom made chandelier! My house will speak for itself and will not need much extra to class it up. I have parred down to what I really LOVE so that is all that will be on display. Side note - if yáll are close by, come end of July I am having one huge garage sale!! I will keep you posted. Come and rid me of my stuff and put it in your own house! :) So I just keeping plugging along. It will all get done and the movers will move it all and then I will unpack it all. Sigh. Another daunting chore ahead... But for now I am just trying to keep my sanity (and my health) and survive until month end. Wish me luck and pray for me.
Ciao all.
