Packing and Moving

It feels like we just got here and yet it is already time to move.  3 years spent building memories and growing our family.  We are now faced with a family too large for our small space.  It was a tight squeeze when we moved in due to the lack of storage and now we are bursting at the seams.

I have already found the house I want to move to.  The bedrooms are smaller but instead of 3 we will have 4 of them.  As well as having a lot more storage.  I also fell in love with the open layout of the downstairs and the extra half bath.  Plus the kitchen is just amazing.(it was a deal breaker with other places)  Granite counters, cherry wood cabinets and flooring.  ::drool::  I just might dream of rolling out some pies on that counters as I sleep tonight.
 ::prays nothing goes wrong in the application process::
I'm a worrier.. I can't help it, I've tried.

I have been slowly wrapping and packing all my breakables and purely decorative items over the past few weeks.  My walls are bare of picture frames and my china hutch is minus all the many serving plates.   All the papers that we have collected over the past three years have been sorted, stored or shredded.  ( I use the shredded paper to help protect my breakables)

I am only limited on what I already have packed by the amount of boxes I have.  We usually just use the big plastic storage tubs for the majority of our packing.  The tubs work great for long term storage without worrying about water damage or pests.

I have never been so excited to actually pack all my family's worldly belongings up as I am this move.  I still have the anxiety of new schools for the kids, utilities to sort out, and doing something special to help make the kids excited about the new house.  They want to start a garden and get a dog.

I am most thrilled by all the storage at the new place.  Being the anal retentive person that I am I have our clothing separated by seasonal requirements.  Not all of the 4 different seasons just the two we see here in Las Vegas.  (summer and winter)  I also love decorating for the seasons.  Now my many boxes of decorations will no longer have to take up room in my bedroom closet or force us to climb into the sketchy looking attic to retrieve them.

There are so many big changes going on in my life right now.  A new business, moving to a new house, and One Nutty Mama blog has moved to a personal domain.

Lists, Lists, and more lists. Check!

Hi, My name is Kim and I'm an obsessive list writer.  I write endless lists about everything under the sun.  From grocery lists to chore lists I have them all.  I am so obsessive with my list writing that I have chores broken down into different rooms or other categories.  At one time I had a checklist in my word documents of all the chores.  Each chore was obsessively scheduled for certain days too.  I had just gotten my list fully organized and divided into days I wanted to face the drudgery of the chores.  Then the horrible crash of my PC and my wonderful list was lost. I had to start all over and in the middle of the holiday season no less.

I've always had trouble falling asleep. It's just gotten worse with each child I've had.  My husband claims a mouse fart would startle me out of a dead sleep.  The loss of my master list has not helped my insomnia.  My mind runs faster when my body comes to rest. It leaps ahead to the next day tallying up to-do lists that are full of chores that always need my attention.  To quiet the fluttering of my obsessive thoughts I write them down in a spiral notebook.  The official lists(spell-checked and printed) are mostly filled with chores that need to be done.  My spiral book is also covered page after page in chicken scratches of little ideas for my blog with insights that rush at me as I lay there in the dark trying to force myself to fall asleep.

We are planning on moving in the next few months and my list making addiction is going to kick into overdrive.  It's a good thing my wonderful husband bought me a great clipboard with paper and pencil storage inside it years ago.  I've used it to contain important papers throughout many events in life. From cross country moving to keeping all the hospital papers safe and contained with not one but two of my children's births.

With the move in the next few months I have already started on my checklists.  At this point this list is growing faster than it is shrinking.  I love that feeling of checking things accomplished off my lists.  It gives me a little obsessive compulsive thrill. When the checklist is fully done I look at it and marvel at how I got it all done.  Then I realize; oh yeah, I know how.. I don't sleep enough to keep a normal human being functional.  I'm not even the worst insomniac I know.