It's Monday morning after the busiest weekend I have had in my entire adult life. We had 5 gigs in 4 days and both fell asleep on the couch watching Shutter Island last night. (How do you fall asleep during Shutter Island?)

I wake up this morning, realizing school is out and my 7 year old is sleeping on the floor beside my bed, and decide it's not time to get up yet. When I finally crawl out of bed and look for my phone, it's no where in sight. My husband took the wrong vehicle to work, taking my phone with him! I wake up the kids, get us all dressed and medicated (thyroid, adhd, anxiety, pick one!), and out the door we go to get my phone from Daddy's work. I'm driving down the road and I see my husband in his work truck stopped at a gas station. Thankfully, he has my phone with him. THEN, he dropped the bomb on me.

We're moving! His mother is moving out of state in a couple months and, rather than trying to sell her house, we are going to rent it, indefinately. We moved into THIS house in September of 2009. I LOVE it. I have painted the walls in the living and dining rooms. I have organized and rearranged to make it exactly the space I want. I have just spent an entire week working on just my bedroom and the kitchen. Now he tells me we are going to uproot and move (for the 11th time since we met) to a house that is MUCH smaller.

There are really great things about this situation. It will be cheaper; we will be able to quit a weekly gig that we really don't want anymore anyway; we will be closer to my mother's house; well, you get the idea. I guess I am just a little shocked. We planned on staying in this house for years. We even thought about asking to purchase it from the landlord. It's just hard to change course with so little warning.

Man, I go one morning without my phone and my whole world gets turned upside down!

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With the lack of changing seasons in Florida, it is hard to know exactly when Spring is. It simply goes from cold to hot, with no in-between. But in my house, Spring is here! Well, at least Spring Cleaning is here.

I have painted the entire living room and moved the furniture around. Then I moved onto the master bedroom and kitchen. As I scrubbed and cleaned, I have purged. After taking stuff out of the bedroom and kitchen that don't belong there, I realize I don't need most of this stuff. So, I plan a yard sale.

Luckily, the church up the street has a community yard sale already planned for June 26th. Now, the countdown is on! Eighteen days to go and 3 closets full of junk to sift through. Today I started going through all of that junk that came out of the first 2 rooms. I got so discouraged because more stuff went into the "keep" pile than the "sale" pile. I thought that most of the stuff would go out the door, but it just didn't turn out that way.

My plan was that if something didn't have a place, then we didn't need it. But it just seems so overwhelming with SO MUCH to go through.

Tomorrow, after two 5th Grade Banquets we are djing, my husband and I are tackling the rest of the mound of junk. At least I won't be alone. It's so much easier with a partner in crime!

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