I have all of these grandiose plans for it, yet it still sits full
of unpacked boxes and Christmas decorations I can't bring myself to finish packing away.
I think of that stack
of unpacked boxes I never quite got around to when I moved nearly a year ago.
Right now there are still stacks and stacks
of unpacked boxes in the basement, so we really don't see ourselves spending any time down here in the near future.
I am a full - time Mom to a very active 18 - month - old and we have a brand new house with lots
of unpacked boxes, so finding time to write is the difficult part.
I have all of these grandiose plans for it, yet it still sits full
of unpacked boxes and Christmas decorations I can't bring myself to finish packing away.
I'm still in the midst
of unpacking boxes and trying to find a place for everything so this post is short and sweet; and of course, delicious.
Not exact matches
It's like watching a group
of people work together to
unpack a stuffed closet: some want to put the damaged items right back in their
boxes, some want to wave them like bloody shirts, some want to pause and see what they're actually looking at.
(My sister laughed pretty hard as she was
unpacking those
boxes — let's see, a few paperback books, electronics, a razor,
box of Kleenex, baby toys, two diapers, a magazine, a power cord, bag
of tortilla chips, a pillow, what else can we cram in here?)
Anne
unpacked and set up her entire room beautifully, often coming by to airily remark that if I was tired
of looking at all these
boxes, I could always come to her room and have a rest.
Every time I packed them up into
boxes, carried several hundred
boxes of books to the U-Haul, and then unloaded and
unpacked them at our new residence, I cursed my addiction to books.
But the kids are all set up with schools, a doctor, and a dentist, and The Hubby and I are working on that as well, we found some fabulous parks, met a few neighbors, and we only have a couple
of small piles
of not - yet -
unpacked boxes.
When the weekend rolled around and I'd finally
unpacked a few more
boxes and gotten a little
of my kitchen mojo back, I embarked on making these muffins.
It's an extremely simple soup to make with minimal ingredients, yet consistently rewarding in comfort, flavor and heartiness — just the thing to fill up on before
unpacking a mountain
of moving
boxes.
We spent most
of the day
unpacking boxes, lifting and moving so it was pretty tiring, we also did a big food shop in the afternoon.
Yesterday I roasted a couple
of chicken breasts while
unpacking some
boxes.
This week, I took a
box of books back to my parents» place that I failed to
unpack in my own room for nine months.
Um... I only JUST
unpacked a
box of stuff from my travels, and it's been a week since I've been back.
I was
unpacking one
of my Magic Bullets today, because I wanted to start using the juicer attachment, and within about 3 seconds
of pulling out the base and the tall and short cups, THIS LITTLE CRITTER hopped into the
box!
Elsewhere, we have a huge
box o» liquor (two
of them, actually; you can see them in the top right
of the next photo) that we haven't bothered
unpacking yet.
The last few months have flown by in a flurry
of boxes, trips to the eco-station and Good Will, buying furniture, and
unpacking.
After three days straight
of packing, moving
boxes, driving, moving everything up to the third floor, and
unpacking, we totally crashed Sunday night and slept for 12 hours straight.
With a lot more space than our former abode, we have embraced my parent's suggestion to keep the
boxes still to be
unpacked out
of sight.
Patty comes into the garage, seeking an extension cord from one
of the many still
unpacked boxes.
The way we all worked together to
unpack the hundreds
of boxes.
You might not let her near the included
box knife for fear
of those intense pregnancy mood swings, but keep it handy for
unpacking!
Speaking
of boxes, as I
unpacked a wardrobe
box I came up with a great idea for a Halloween costume.
I wore him in my Tula and was able to pack
boxes, do plenty
of squats, and
unpack when needed.
Oh, and did I mention the
unpacking of the
boxes?
If you've ever
unpacked your child's lunch
box at the end
of the school day only to find that most
of the lunch you packed was hardly touched, you know how exasperating it can be.
Well, there is still a sink to replace and once again the issue
of finding the perfect light fixture (s), oh, and there's that one
box that just won't
unpack itself and I don't understand why.
I was thinking about all the things I could get done in that time - the many emails I needed to catch up on, lots
of endless cleaning, painting
of trim,
unpacking the last
boxes, washing those white floors, woodstacking and more.
Two
of those for me are cutting myself off from work stuff at 2:30, making sure I'm showered and dressed before the kids get home from school rather than staying in sweaty workout clothes and showering after the older kids get home, and not
unpacking lunch
boxes immediately after the kids walk in the door.
Metal lunchboxes clang as hungry tykes begin to
unpack a multitude
of tins, cartons, juice
boxes and squeezable thing - a-ma-jigs to display on the giant tables like a fire sale gone wrong.
Setup and Installation (5 out
of 5): After
unpacking the
box I installed the car seat without looking at the instructions to see how easy the process was.
Days later, with aides still
unpacking boxes, a two - page letter arrived from Ron Stack, then chairman
of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state monitoring board that has been overseeing the county's finances since 2011, ordering Mangano to revise his budget to make up for the lost revenue.
When she arrived at Chapel Hill, «my lab was full
of boxes ready to
unpack,» and 2 weeks later she was already getting experiments under way.
I'm sharing all
of our before photos (complete with
unpacked boxes and paint samples splotched all over the walls), and I hope you'll join me on our journey to turn this house into our next home!
I have a job where I am on my feet and somewhat active for about 6 hours a day, doing a lot
of repetitive packing and
unpacking boxes and lots
of walking.
I tend to get a bit hypoglycemic (even while eating low GI index foods) when I'm physically active for long periods
of time... like now, when I'm
unpacking boxes ad infinitum.
Most
of our
boxes are
unpacked and everything is finding its place.
Since then our things had been in
boxes that really couldn't be
unpacked because
of space, and my parents had been storing a number
of items.
So instead
of unpacking from our trip and falling into bed, I stayed up all night dragging
boxes of fall decorations up from the basement and staging the sunroom so I could take the photos first thing in the morning.
Best
of luck in florida and getting more
of those
boxes unpacked!
But that will change once I finally
unpack my
boxes of work clothes after the move to my new place this weekend if all goes well!
We found a bit
of time this weekend to finish
unpacking those last few pesky
boxes, hang up a bit
of art, and really start to call the place our own.
I spent the majority
of my time
unpacking yet more
boxes at the house (and arranging furniture, can't wait to share more
of that later), volunteering at my kids schools, (which I love to do) playing private chauffeur for the kids activities and trying to get -LSB-...] Read more...
Lately you see these kind
of caps everywhere, but luckily I still had this leather one from the Eudon Choi x River Island collection (I rediscovered it while
unpacking my moving
boxes!
I've
unpacked 99 %
of the
boxes on the first floor but I found myself trying to dead lift our coffee table on Tuesday night and realized it was probably better to wait for Will to get home than to throw my back out in the name
of feng shui.
I moved 5 years ago and still have a couple
of boxes I haven't
unpacked.
I will say we are almost totally
unpacked and throwing away a MOUNTAIN
of boxes felt like winning the lottery.