20 Days later & a work in progress!

OH MY GOODNESS!!! Has it really been TWENTY days since I last blogged??! Wow! I have to apologize! I have just been up to my elbows in craziness. My excuse (not that any excuse is really all that good!) is that....

WE'VE MOVED!!

Yep, you read that right! In the last 20 days I have packed up one house and unpacked another. Not to mention, register LK for school. Like I said... craziness!

Why did we move you may ask? Was this planned? NOPE! Not really all that planned. At least not this year. Why? Well, it's all really a long complicated story about annexations, school zones and me being an overly-attention, maybe a bit obsessive mother at times! ha! I wont bore you with the details.. but, basically we decided to move, put a sign in the yard, found another house and packed up!

We moved into East Memphis #1 for a MUCH better school (and this gives us the option to hold out on private schools for another few years!) and #2 everything we do is in East Memphis! All of the kid's activities and Ethan's school are in this area. So, it will just be all around better for us! We are really excited about the move. Although, I have to say that we are downsizing.. ALOT! We are going from 4 bed, 2 1/2 bath home with dining room, eat in kitchen, playroom and extended garage to 3 bed, 2 bath home with no playroom, one eating area and no garage!!!! It's been stressful to say the least! I can't tell you how many boxes of stuff Chris has taken to Goodwill just b/c we have absolutely NO room!

So.. the last 20 days have been chaotic for sure! For any of ya'll who know me.. you know that mess and clutter is NOT my friend! It stresses me out! This is the mess I delt with while packing up the old house...

Dining room

Other side of DR table

kitchen

bedroom

This is while moving into the new house...

Dining Room

Living Room.. YIKES!!!! See what I mean about WAY too much stuff!!!

Other side of Living Room! OH MY!

Adjusting to a typical "East Memphis" home has been interesting! ha! I am very used to more contemporary housing, so this has been something completely new to me! I like it though. It has it's charm! :)

And here's my work in progress... (these rooms are no where near complete! I will post more pics when they are!)

kitchen

kitchen

and more kitchen.. you can obviously tell where all the odds n ends have been placed!

entry area

dining room

living room and front door

living room and hallway

LR and DR

since we have no playroom.. we turned this nook into their play area! it's FULL of shelving!

laundry/sewing/MOMMY's room!

So, we've had alot of late nights trying to get things unpacked and organized! I'm exhausted, stressed and just plain about to lose my mind! LIFE!

Again.. SO SO SO sorry for my blogging absense! I promise to get better! I have lots of posts planned for this week involving LK's new school (first day TODAY!!) and even more news from the Stickles house! I hope everyone has a wonderful week!