Home Sweet Home

Posted byNatalie King

We’ve been here for a little over a week (1 week Thursday!) and we’ve been unpacking and moving stuff around nonstop. I’m exhausted and feeling impatient for our house to be completely unpacked, but the new house is nice! 

Yesterday I got the NICEST postcard in the mail! Mary is an amazing artist and a professional quilter. She made the gorgeous quilt that is on our bed and I couldn’t believe it when I saw all the same fabrics making a tiny quilt postcard. We’ve had so many kind and wonderful things from all the people in our lives during this whole move! 
So far, we’ve unpacked the boys’ room, the playroom, our room, the bathrooms, the kitchen, the basement and the garage. Tomorrow our new couch arrives and so our living room will be transformed. That leaves the porch (which is a “catch all” for all of the boxes and random things that we don’t have space for), and the 2 spare bedrooms- which are FULL of boxes and random stuff. I started working on them today and it’s a very overwhelming job. I still have a few LONG days of organizing and unpacking ahead. 


We got a new refrigerator delivered on Thursday. The old fridge was SO small, and the opening was much larger, so we upgraded right away. We measured the refrigerator opening, but we didn’t measure the front door. Luckily we made it by a hair (literally, it was SO tight) and learned a good lesson about measuring the entire pathway… 

At our old house, my oven didn’t close all the way, so to get a tight seal, I would use a piece of packing tape to force the door shut. Our new oven is very nice and new and fancy and for a few days this week, I was hating it and wishing we still had our janky old oven. It took me about 5 batches of macarons, but I figured out the perfect settings. All of my baking supplies are unpacked and I squeezed in time to measure some ingredients- it made me feel back to normal! And once I got the hang of it, I was able to make some Thanksgiving themed batches. 
 

One of my favorite rooms in our house is the playroom for the boys. When we first thought about moving, we thought we’d put the boys in their own rooms. But one of our favorite things is, after they go to bed, listening to them talk to each other. Also, the two bedrooms upstairs are such different sizes, we decided to keep them together and have a playroom for toys. 

The playroom has some interesting nooks and crannies and there was already a tiny little loft area that we are calling the cozy corner. I put some pillows and blankets in there and Xander climbs up there in the morning to read books or play on his ipad. 

There are built in bookshelves in the playroom and Xander and I painted them bright red (his favorite color). We painted the ladder to the cozy corner blue (Augustus’s request). 

I labeled all of the toy bins (about 12 total) with photos of the toys that go in them (cars, power rangers, pokemon, etc). 


There is a giant walk-in closet in the playroom that I made into a Paw Patrol area on the floor, hung their costumes and stored some other random toys. 


In the basement, we put up several shelves and bought SO MANY bins. Our old basement was damp and basement-y and over the years we had a mouse more than once. And even though this basement is very different than that, I feel passionately about anything that gets stored is in labeled plastic bins. 


More unpacking, organizing and labeling are still on the to do list for the week ahead. I also have some big projects going on at work, and it’s Thanksgiving week, so we’re going to cram a lot into the days ahead!