Rooms that is.  I finally pushed through the kitchen today.  It is probably 90% complete.  I know there are still some boxes in my car with my knives and, gasp, dirty dishes that were put in boxes on the last trip (more on that later).  The dishwasher is currently sitting in a corner, hubby hooked it up last night, but it has to have a cabinet built around it, so we put a box on top of it to weigh it down so we could use it without it tipping over.  Because the world was coming to an end without the dishwasher.  And you can’t really eat cereal off paper plates that I strictly ordered kindly requested everyone please use.  There are a few things lurking on top of the cabinets (that I cut out of the picture on purpose).  But I’m quite excited to eat our first meal at the kitchen table, without things falling off and having to rest my feet on a box.

But what you can’t see lurking around the corner…it decided to rain today, thus I had to clear off the outdoor storage deck of all the things that I didn’t want wet.  So I put as much as I could in the storage building and the rest ended up just inside the door blocking my washer and dryer and one bathroom.

I hope you’ve been enjoying all of the pictures, aka scheduled posts.  I sat down last Thursday night and scheduled posts for the next six days.  Thus all the one liner/picture posts.  I do have a few posts floating around in my head.  Don’t worry, I’ve made notes so I don’t forget them!

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At least one thing is nice and neat. And has been since the morning after we moved.  Normally we would do it the night of the move, but we were just that tired.  I think our lights were out Saturday night by 8:45pm.

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In no particular order

If you don’t hear from me for a week, send in a search party.

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We are in the midst of this move and to be honest, I can find the time by procrastinating, I just can’t find the energy.  I’ve been feeling ‘blog guilt’ since the new year about not posting frequently enough, and I plan to get back in the swing of things once we’re over this hurdle.  We start loading up on Friday and unload Saturday.  I think the last three months have been more of an emotional/mental drain rather than physical. Hard to explain.  Anyway, I’m not dropping off the face of the Earth, I won’t even say I’m that busy in the grand scheme of things, but I’m just struggling to hold onto a shred of my wittiness and creativity that inspires my writing at the moment.   I’m thinking about posting pictures too, I just haven’t gotten there yet.  Have patience with me.

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So we had our storage building moved to the new house today.  My brother inlaw was kind enough to ask his friend at the lumber yard (who has experience moving buildings) if he could cut us a deal to move it.  Goes back to what I said before, moving in the South is always cheaper!  Further proof.  Anyway, I asked Scott how they were going to move it.  His response and I quote “He’s going to pick it up with a forklift and set it on a trailer.”  Oh okay, I thought, trying to picture this in my head.  Quite frankly, just the mental image of $1500 of blood, sweat and tears balancing on a forklift didn’t sit well with me, nor did it make much sense.  I’m thinkin, now what kind of forklift is this?  I’ve never seen one that could just pick up a building.  But in my mental picture, this is an approximation of what I saw:

A very lowboy trailer

And a very heavy duty forklift

So when a flatbed, not to mention a tall flatbed and

a bobcat arrived…I was feeling a bit skeptical.  And by skeptical, I mean nervous.

Caleb and I took our seats in the spectator box – aka in front of the huge pane glass window of the living room.  We raised the blinds all the way as if we were drawing back a curtain and settling in for the show.  As I clung to Caleb, I said “Oh man, this is making me so nervous!”  He looked at me and said “It’s alright Momma” and covered my eyes with his hand.  Attempt one failed.  The building shifted and fell.  Yes fell.  Luckily, my husband happens to have built a very structurally sound building.  Of course every time the truck pulled forward trying to get lined up correctly to back the bed underneath the building, he got stuck and spun tires.  So they kept having to hook a chain to the Bobcat and pull the truck back up the slope.

Does anything look amiss to you in this picture?

Here, this illustration should help.

They were able to get it loaded on the second attempt and tossed two straps over the top.  When we reached the street, a tape measure was stretched from the top peak to the ground.  Seems we wouldn’t be going under any bridges, as we were exactly at the bridge clearance for most bridges.  So our convoy left.  Truck with gigantic building, truck pulling trailer with bobcat, van pulling trailer with lawnmower and tool box, Ford Explorer hauling 35lb. child.  It was like we were told to get in line according to size of load.  Then we came to the bridge.  Up the on ramp we went.  Across the highway.  And back down the exit ramp on the other side.  Everyone pulled over in a gravel lot at the bottom of the ramp to walk around the truck and gawk at how it looked like it would tip over at any given second.  The decision was made to press on, as it looked no worse a few miles from the house than it had looked pulling out of the driveway.

We have conquered…building.

At that point, I had to turn back and head home to retrieve the money to pay this poor man for his troubles.  I raced in the house and back out as fast as I could.  There is a very steep hill between here and the new house.  Each curve I came around, I kept expecting to see the remains of our storage building and a truck tipped over on its side.  When I reached the hill, I thought surely I would have caught up with them, but they were nowhere to be seen.  I breathed a sigh of relief that they actually made it to the top of the hill.  But when I reached the house, they weren’t there.  I called my brother inlaw to check on things, and they had taken a detour around the steep hill.  I don’t blame them.

They did arrive safely, and in one piece…right side up.  Scott said he thought for sure it was going to fall the whole way.  I think everyone  rode leaning to the left, trying to balance out the building leaning heavily to the right. The poor driver, who drives a semi for a living by the way, said he tried to talk to my brother inlaw the whole way there so they could keep their eyes off the wobbling building in their side view mirrors.

Once there, everyone stood around and cringed some more as we debated how to get it off the truck without dropping it or rolling it over and destroying it.  The decision was made to go back and get the bobcat and suddenly the whole damn thing started rolling backwards.  You have never seen grown men move so fast.  Catatrophy was avoided.  It was unloaded and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.  Or as my brother inlaw put it best…”Do you have a hammer and a straight pin?”  Um, why?  “Because you couldn’t drive it up my butthole right now.”

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With our upcoming move, we decided to clean out and sell anything we could to save some space and make a little money at the same time.  I listed several things on Craigslist, which generates an inordinate amount of emails if you have an active list near you.  I think I’ve read and replied to 50 emails or so in the last 24 hours.  But hey, I made $105 today!  And I’m hoping to come close to that again tomorrow!

We sold a trampoline that we got for free.  How terrible is that?!  A renter moved out and left a ton of stuff behind, the trampoline included.  Scott went to work on the heating and air for the home owner, who was cleaning up to get the house ready to rent again.  He was planning to set it out at the road.  Scott gladly took it off his hands.  We want one, but this one didn’t have a net around it, so I wouldn’t allow Caleb on it.  Now we have a chunk of change to put toward one with a safety net!

With all the emails flooding in, my day has been crazy.  I had two people come and pick things up, Caleb and I ran errands this morning, and I seriously answered emails every spare second in between.  I didn’t eat lunch until 3pm and dinner is in a few minutes (it is now 9:15).  And when answering all these emails, I did what was necessary to keep Caleb entertained.

They are flowers by the way.  Or so he says.  All the way up my arms.

The lady that came by tonight probably thought I was really weird.  I forgot to explain.  Oops.

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As we were roaming through the store this morning on our errands, I stopped to check the Infants and Toddlers section.  It has been a while.  We’ve been recovering from Christmas and preparing to move, so I’ve steered clear, as I have a shopping addiction when it comes to kid clothes.  My cart just drove right in there though, I swear, I don’t know how it happened.

I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m drawn to cute little monsters for some reason.  Like the Manhattan Toy monsters.  And this cute Target kids monster bedding set.  Caleb however, couldn’t care a thing in the world about monsters, as I might have mentioned in the past, it is all about wheels for him.  So I spotted a compromise.  This absolutely adorable jacket!

I think the cuteness balances out the fact that it is a white jacket for a toddler.  It sort of reminds me of Dr. Seuss in a way.

And it is from…you ready for this…Walmart!

Obviously other people must have really liked it also because they only had two left, a 12-18 month and a 3t.  I had to force myself to put it back because Caleb is just about out of 3t, it didn’t make sense to buy it.  So what to do, what to do.  I know!  Send hubby to the next closest Walmart on his way home from work.  They had ONE left, a 5t, so now we have plenty of growing room (I think the Walmart brand tends to run small too).  And it was $7.50.  It’s the little things that make me stupid happy!

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If you stick around long enough, I’ll teach ya how we do everything down here in Nascar country.

    …It ended up bein the Clampetts go to Maui!
    Cuz you get my family together and there is an empty K-mart somewhere!
    They showed up at the airport they were usin coolers and grocery bags for luggage
    The sky cap was like “which ones yours? the Samsonite?”
    They were like, “no we got the igloo with the duct tape on it and the 5 piggly wiggly bags right there!”…     -Jeff Foxworthy

So we’re moving.  You already know that.  Scott walked by when I was editing these pictures and said “Sure, sure.  Make fun of the rednecks.”  Nah, seriously we’re not rednecks.  I’ll show you more proof on that subject next post.  But moving is always cheaper in the south.  Seriously.  Proven fact.  Know why?  Because there’s a 95% chance most of your family lives within 20 miles of you.  And a 99% chance that most of them have trucks, trailers, and brute strength.  So when Scott’s boss offered up a truck to move our storage building contents?  Well we jumped right on it.  There’s no better price tag than “Free!”

Take a very old…

…very rusty…


truck

Drive it home…

Just don’t count on it cranking right back up.

As an added bonus, it is a dump truck, so we were able to just back up the the porch and dump everything out!  Okay okay, so we didn’t really do that.  But it would have been cool if we did!  And I definitely would have taken pictures and video.

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He is actually napping!  Faster than one could say SkippyJon Jones, SkippyJon Jones, SkippyJon Jones plus one hour, he fell asleep.  I explained to him what a promise is last night.  I asked him to promise me he’d nap.  Then when naptime rolled around, I promised to read three books, and gave a warning after each one.  Two more books, then it is naptime…one more book, then we go to sleep.  Finally after 45 minutes of wrestling and me struggling to keep calm, we agreed that we would play in the sandbox when he woke up.  And he finally fell asleep.

Did I mention we like SkippyJon Jones over here?  The first book we checked out from the library last summer, I think it took me 40 minutes to read it.  I don’t speak Spanish, and it has a lot of Spanish in it.  A lot of flare if you will.  I felt like a fish out of water trying to read it, but I have honed my Skippito skills and now it is a lot of fun.  Right Mr. Fluffenutter?  Si, my little crumb cake.

Yes, if you can’t tell, today is going much better and things have quieted down.  I am catching up on the piled up laundry.  I’ve vacuumed, the kid is squeaky clean after a 40 minute bath.  Hopefully we will be able to make a decision about the house in question tonight.  I disinfected the bathroom floor at 11:30pm last night.  I was angry at the mess, so I figured I should use that to my advantage and tackle it head on.  Do you get a lot done when you’re mad too?  I know I do.  I become very efficient, and usually feel much better afterward!  I’m weird.

Anyway, this picture flipped by on the screensaver the other day, and I tracked down the file to blog it.  I just cracked up, because he looks like a little alien!  I think this was taken two winters ago in early 2007.

All I can think is Wow Wow Wubbzy…”Just say BEEP.  Beepbeep…beep…”

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Tell me what you think, is this a cop out for a “birthday gift?”

As you know, we have an impending move, hopefully before Caleb’s birthday.  I’ve been mulling over what we could get him for his birthday.  It always seems like Christmas and his birthday are back to back, despite there being three months in between.  So I was thinking for his “big” gift, we could do his bedroom.  My mom bought a set of bunkbeds for his room from a friend with an older child who had outgrown them.  They are currently sitting in the bedroom dissembled (due to the impending move).  Caleb is very excited to have them put together.  I suddenly realized we’ll need linens for two beds though.  I like his current set (and it is still available at Target – a kids Woolrich camping set), but I was thinking of switching to a car themed set.  I suppose there is no explanation needed there.  We could do it the night before his birthday (letting him sleep in our bed that night) and “wrap” the bedroom door with paper and a ribbon or something.  I was thinking of carrying the theme to the bathroom and doing the same thing there.  Anyway, here’s the adorable theme I found.  I think he would freak out if he wasn’t expecting it.  This stuff is from Target by the way!

HAVE TO HAVE IT:

I wanted to do the quilt on one bunk…

…and the comforter on the other.  Because I couldn’t decide which was cuter, we could switch for some variety!

The sheets are so adorable!

THE WATER IS GETTING DEEP:

What color curtains would go with this?  Light tan?  I feel like there’s enough blue already!

Even a little car bank

The lamp has a stop sign pull chain

This is the kids bedding throw pillow:

And this is the toddler set throw pillow:

Dumping the trash!

BUT I CAN STILL TOUCH THOUGH:

Cute, cute, CUTE shower curtain!

NEVERMIND, GONE OFF THE DEEP END:

4X4 toothbrush holder

Umm…Herbie soap dispenser?!

Even the shower curtain rings are precious (Can you tell I’m super excited about this?!)

Lotion dispenser?  Don’t need it, just think it is adorable too!

I can find some use for this right?

These are very cute, but probably an unjustified cost (or overdoing it perhaps?)


I LOVE this shelf that actually goes with a different baby bedding set.

DRIFTING OUT TO SEA, BON VOYAGE:

And this dog blanket (doesn’t match the theme at all), I just had to throw it in here because it is so dog-gone cute!

Road rug

Adorable storage stool (Don’t stand on that!  It’s too cute!)

Wall stickers of vintage airplanes

A light switch plate to go with the nearby shelf.

UP NEXT WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS: A DAYDREAMING MOTHER IS LOST AT SEA.

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