Boxes and mess... and we got the keys of our new house today!!

So, the boxes are pilling up in the corridor and not one single room is tidy and clean. There is ‘stuff’ everywhere, stuff to pack, stuff to give away to charity, stuff to throw out… stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff!! Who owns all this stuff? Who are these sick, demented hoarders? Well apparently we do, and we are!!

The boxes are never ending, as soon as you pack and seal one, you need to quickly grab another one to finish packing the cupboard that you just opened!! We are inefficient because we are overwhelmed by the amount of stuff we have accumulated in 3 and half years of marriage and a baby!! We just don’t know how to tackle our things. Our material possessions are literally choking us. It’s all very ZEN over here!!

The only one not faced by the boxes and the mess seems to be Mona. Our house seemed to have turned into a playground for her. She jumps in and out of the boxes and is so happy to go through them and remove what we have just put in there to discover what that thing is for and what does it do and how she can have fun with it….
But a gold star should be given to her, as she certainly merits one for her patience and helpfulness!! On Friday evening, she spent 3 hours playing quietly in the living room with her toys, while I was busy packing boxes on the kitchen bench, of course we did interact with each other quite a few times, but it was all happily and she understood that I was busy working. And one evening, she even took an empty cardboard box and put her doll, half a banana, her cup, her dummy and some other little toys in it and gave the box to daddy to seal it… it’s was so funny, the look on her cutie face was priceless, she was so proud and happy to help out daddy!!

Mona is very excited about the moving. Today when we went to the new house, she was running and jumping around like a circus kid!! She was so bright and very outgoing with the agent and the owners (they were there too, finishing up the cleaning and removing their things). And when we showed her her new bedroom, she was so excited and went to play in the wardrobes.

So yeah, we got the keys to the new house this afternoon, and tomorrow afternoon with the help of some male family members, we be will filling up the rental truck with our boxes full of stuff and furniture, fridge, TV, computers (3 and a laptop), 2 printers and the fax, washing machine, dryer, etc… and on Tuesday morning, we will all go to the new house to upload the truck.
Then we will have all afternoon to set the beds and bedroom, and unpack some boxes in the kitchen and bathroom. Then on Wednesday, we will drop Mona at one of the aunt’s house and hubby and I will come back to this house to clean it up (hopefully one day will be enough!!) and to come back again on Friday to give back the keys to the rental agent.

But before all that, we still need to finish up packing here. We still have the laundry, the pantry to really finish up, and some little stuff that we are still using every day in each rooms, and also we have to dismantle the beds and office desks and I have to unpack the fridge and clean it, we need to pack the clothes also (will spread a bed sheet on the bed and put all the clothes with the hangers still on the bed sheet and tie it around in a not, that way it’s easier to put it in place). We have to get all of this done by tomorrow afternoon.
Oh dear, how I wished I have an extra pair of hands and legs to get things done quicker!!!
Oh and also tomorrow morning we have to make calls to get all the utilities disconnected and reconnected to the new house.
It’s going to be a long week, and I don’t even thing I will be able to blog and whine about it, because I don’t know when we will have adsl connected.
Ok, I better go back to my boxes and stuff!!