No, no I am not. Not even close. Sorry to disappoint you, but I have had a lot to do what with my husband traveling all of the time and the kids going back to school and starting soccer and everything and so no I haven't unpacked and decorated my house and gotten all settled in yet so..GET OFF OF MY BACK!! Sorry, I seem to have gotten a wee bit carried away there. But in all honesty I don't think we will feel completely settled for at least a year. The list of things to unpack, buy, paint, do, etc. is just too long. I am getting tired just thinking about it.
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But there is one perk of moving that I really do enjoy: finding things. Things you forgot you owned (Oh, I remember this picture!), things you never remember having (Where did we get that vase?), things you wanted to forget (Oh, yuk, I thought we threw that out years ago!); things you borrowed and never returned (Sorry, Norwin Library.) and even things you never realized about yourself. (Hey I can live on fast food and no sleep for 3 days before I turn into a complete nightmare. Such a shame we did that for 5...)
One of my favorite discoveries came too early in the unpacking process for me to fully appreciate it. In my attempt to be organized as much as possible and cut through the chaos I decided to unpack and set up the kitchen ASAP. So our first Saturday in the house that is what I did. Unpacked kitchen boxes. All 57 of them. 57! Crazy, right ?? Anyway, I unpacked those 57 boxes. All day long. And some of the night. My feet were swollen and sore from standing on the hardwood floors for 16 hours and the skin on my hands was dried out from all of the cardboard. But by God the plates were in the cabinet! Hooray!!!
It was a few days later as I was making my morning coffee* when I noticed this:
Do you see it? How about if I zoom in a little closer?
Do you see it now?
It's my life.
At a glance in this one cupboard you can tell:
Where we have worked.
Where we have visited.
That we have a daughter
That my husband is a really good, Daddy (and must really like coffee. :-)
That someone likes bird hunting (see aforementioned Husband above)
That we celebrate Christmas
That we have had things to celebrate
Amazing how much information you can get from something as simple as coffee cups. Imagine what we would discover if I took a long look at our shot glass collection! That would be a slightly different, though very interesting story I am sure.
So what does your coffee cup collection say about you?
Take a picture of your cupboard and let's see the story of you.
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But there is one perk of moving that I really do enjoy: finding things. Things you forgot you owned (Oh, I remember this picture!), things you never remember having (Where did we get that vase?), things you wanted to forget (Oh, yuk, I thought we threw that out years ago!); things you borrowed and never returned (Sorry, Norwin Library.) and even things you never realized about yourself. (Hey I can live on fast food and no sleep for 3 days before I turn into a complete nightmare. Such a shame we did that for 5...)
One of my favorite discoveries came too early in the unpacking process for me to fully appreciate it. In my attempt to be organized as much as possible and cut through the chaos I decided to unpack and set up the kitchen ASAP. So our first Saturday in the house that is what I did. Unpacked kitchen boxes. All 57 of them. 57! Crazy, right ?? Anyway, I unpacked those 57 boxes. All day long. And some of the night. My feet were swollen and sore from standing on the hardwood floors for 16 hours and the skin on my hands was dried out from all of the cardboard. But by God the plates were in the cabinet! Hooray!!!
It was a few days later as I was making my morning coffee* when I noticed this:
Do you see it? How about if I zoom in a little closer?
Do you see it now?
It's my life.
Well, mine and my husband's.
Our coffee cups have converged into a Cliff 's Notes version of the story of our lives.
At a glance in this one cupboard you can tell:
Where we have worked.
Where we have visited.
That we have a daughter
That my husband is a really good, Daddy (and must really like coffee. :-)
That someone likes bird hunting (see aforementioned Husband above)
That we celebrate Christmas
That we have had things to celebrate
Amazing how much information you can get from something as simple as coffee cups. Imagine what we would discover if I took a long look at our shot glass collection! That would be a slightly different, though very interesting story I am sure.
So what does your coffee cup collection say about you?
Take a picture of your cupboard and let's see the story of you.
* I use the term 'coffee ' with a bit of literary license here. It is a far cry to call the sugared-up, calorie-laden, whipped-cream-and-caramel-topped beverage I consume 'coffee'. But if Starbucks can do it, so can I . :)
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