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Just To Make You Feel Better About Your House..

I thought I'd share this lovely photo of my living/dining room~well, at least it's mine for 9 more days.
Isn't that the *picture* of organization? heehee You'll be relieved to know that this photo does not reflect on the true organization of this moving process:) I actually have a lovely list all typed up on the computer and each box has a designated number.

It has been an incredibly busy week. Which is why I've fallen off the face of blogland for several days. Apparently I'm not one of those people who can simultaneously pack, do laundry, take care of kiddos, try to maintain some semblance of order in the dismantled home and blog all at the same time. {sigh}

Thankfully my sister has been here all week helping me pack. She's an angel! So glad to have her here. We've had some fun, too. We've collapsed a few times from too much packing and watched some great *girl* movies: Persuasion and The Women (the original version). Plus tonight she, Vince and myself all went to see Angels & Demons. Very good movie! It was a much-needed break.

My sweet husband has been driving the wheels off of a rental truck this week, too. Since he's self-employed right now and has a flexible schedule we decided that we wouldn't try to move everything all at once. So we started the moving process this week in shifts. We loaded a truck on Tuesday morning and he drove to AR, unloaded and spent the night then drove back to AL on Wednesday. Thursday morning we loaded him up again (this time with the kiddos who are spending the weekend with Nana). He drove to AR, unloaded, spent the night and then drove back to AL today (Friday). He's leaving Saturday with one more load, spending the night and then driving back to AL with the kiddos on Sunday. Whew...got all that?! I'm not sure I do! He figured up that he'll have spent about 48 hours total driving this week. Bless his heart. I don't know how he's doing it!

Plus on the nights that he's been in AR, he's been building new beds for the kiddos. Yes, building beds! Since their rooms are relatively small we decided that it would be better for them to have loft-style beds to give them more play room. Mr. B's is a lower loft, with sort of a treehouse feel. The Princess' is like a bed resting on top of her very own playhouse. So far I've only seen a few (and I do mean few) pics, so I'm very excited to see them myself. I'll have to tell you all about it! Much fodder for the blog:)

So, as you can tell, there's much activity going on around here. After this weekend we'll just have one small load to take after our house closing on June 1st.

Next week we are taking the kiddos for one last quick trip to the beach~before we move twice as far away from it! I love the beach/ocean and the kiddos seem to take after me in that way. Not that Vince doesn't love it, just not as much as I do:) So I'm excited about relaxing on the beach and recharging my personal batteries, so to speak. Then I'll be all ready to tackle those boxes when we get to AR!

So I'll be around, even if it may not be as often for these next couple of weeks. Don't forget about me!! Oh~and THANK YOU all so much for voting for Vince's video this week!! Feel free to keep voting each day. The results should be announced June 6th.

Have an awesome weekend, my blog friends!

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