Settling In

Now that we got all of our stuff to Blair and in our garage, it was time to start putting it away. I hate this process and love it at the same time. I hate it because I am a person where every thing has it's spot where it goes. When I have a new house, I need to find that thing's spot. Then I always question whether that is the "right" spot for it. But on the other side, I love it because it begins to make this house become our home. And I get to have that feeling of I am slowly putting everything in it's proper spot.

So our garage is a maze. And we have more cardboard to recycle than any one family should ever have. Fortunately, on Saturdays, Blair has a recycling place we can load up the cardboard in a vehicle and take it all too. But only on Saturdays. :) So we get a good pile going each week. We already had a good pile the day after we moved and an even bigger one for today!

Things are settling in nicely though. The boys have yet to meet anyone in the neighborhood, but I think our area has mostly older kids and older adults. Bree is fascinated with the trains she can hear in the distance. The boys are enjoying regular romps through the sprinkler on these very hot days.

Most of the boxes inside of the house are unloaded. Now we are working on the garage. I have a goal to be able to park my van in the garage by the end of today and to be able to park both vehicles in by the end of Memorial Day. Ambitious, I know.

We had to buy a few things though. I had to get my double oven. The old oven literally heated up the entire kitchen 12 degrees any time my stove/oven got turned on. So we bought and installed the new one on Tuesday. Also, we needed a new entertainment credenza in our living room. The old one was way to high and big for the space we needed to place it in. So we ordered that online from Wal-Mart early in the week and it arrived on Thursday for us to put together and setup electronics. All of the electronics have been setup now. We finished the surround sound last night so we could watch a movie on our date night.

Our house is beginning to feel like a home!