box city here we come

we've been packing some lately. when we moved from the east coast to the west coast and then back again we joked that we had box city in our living room. it's happening again. slowly but surely we are starting to have box city in our living room. the picture below only shows some of the boxes. there are three bookshelves with boxes on them as well.

some of the boxes that we, i mean js, has packed.
diaper boxes work very well for books.

i have a severe aversion to packing and would rather find anything else to do. take yesterday as an example. pbs asked to pack a box in the morning. so we packed up some dvds. js has packed all of our books and now our shelves are bare, except for the boxes. i decided to make marshmallows in the shape of easter bunnies and carrots. now tell me how is that helping with the packing?

we do have several boxes that are still packed from the cross-country move two years ago. that helps. i just get completely overwhelmed and end up not knowing where to start, where to turn, what to do next, etc. 

this move is different because it is a local move. i don't remember the last local move we made. i must have blocked it out because i know there was one in between our first move to the east coast and then to the west coast. i didn't even realize how very soon we will actually be moving until just the other day. we're moving into our house over mother's day weekend. (that's a joke between js and me that i will save for another post.) i really don't mind moving on mother's day. i just like to tease js about it. :)

so we have packing, cleaning, cleaning, painting, unpacking and whatever else comes our way to do over the next few weeks. i think we're going to be pretty busy and very tired. i also think we're going to be very excited and nervous to be in a house. all in all, i think we will finally feel like we are home.