Bit by Bit

We're still staying in the "old house," as it's now being called in light of the moving process. We've got stuff in boxes and are slowly moving piece by piece until the big truck comes and the bulk of what we have goes. We woke up earlier than expected this morning, which made for some calm quality time amidst the boxes piling up in each room.

sweet moments :)

After church, we made a trip to the "new house" to shuffle some things around and assemble some items from yesterday's auction. In addition to laying out a couple of area rugs, organizing portions of the kitchen cabinets and surveying a couple of the rooms for paint colors, I took to constructing the two Parson's chairs we snagged at the auction. To my disappointment, both chairs were missing front legs, which made these the first items we've received so far from the auction that were missing core pieces. No biggie though; they won't be hard to replace, and the chairs are otherwise new out of the box! #silverlining

in the box... 

what they'll look like with four legs.. haha

I mean hey, there are worse things in the world than missing chair legs. Heck, there are worse things in the process of this move so far, so if missing chair legs are one of the bigger headaches I have, then that is a-okay with me. 

Most of our afternoon was spent shuffling things into their tentatively permanent places at the new place and filling the garage closer and closer to full capacity with things that won't have a home for at least the next month, I'm sure. The joys of moving! 

This will be a slow but certainly sure process. It's coming together bit by bit and I'm doing what I can to control those moments of over-zealous thought strands that convince me I can and will paint the entire downstairs level in the matter of 8 hours. It's not that I truly believe it's impossible, but I've also vowed to let myself actually enjoy the process, too ;). 

Stay tuned.... 

xo | cmd

The Family Who Auctions Together....

Two Words: ONLINE. AUCTIONS.

Pretty sure I just gave you all my best kept secret, although it's really not a secret world at all, and I believe everyone should have access to and knowledge about how freakin' awesome it is. There's a drawn out, sometimes cut-throat process that takes place for the duration of the weekdays, which culminates in a weekend trip to the warehouse to retrieve all the things that were won throughout the week.

One of those said retrieval trips was today:

she was so helpful! 

A mere two hours later, we transferred a loaded-down cart into the back of the truck and continued on to the next shopping stop. It was a quick run in and out, but in the span of that half hour, Sydni managed to wiggle out the second of her two front teeth. Folks, we now have the GAP! 

Whewwwww.. it's been a fun day, and I'll be thrilled when all of these miscellaneous auction [& otherwise acquired] items get tied together into the puzzle for the new digs. 

Work in progress! 

xo | cmd