We are so very truly grateful for our friends that have welcomed us into their home while we navigate the process of getting into a temporary home. We have been welcomed into a very spacious home that provided us a private space for us to sleep and collect the belongings that we need to get by from day to day. It's quite amazing how much and how quickly that happens.
The host family has a college kid and he was looking forward to coming home, with friends, for the long weekend. So we packed up our clutter of stuff into new totes. Our lives reduced to a collection of totes rather than rooms, and me being the fanatic about organization and that I hate digging through things unnecessarily, I created themes for the bins. We have a pantry, an office, a linen closet (not really for linens, but toiletries) and a catch all bin. The items that coworkers have generously given us are also being organized into totes of their own, in attempt to contain our clutter.
Armed with organized totes and our individual suitcases of clothes packed for a long weekend we moved ourselves to another wonderful host home of a family that also has a lovely large home with kids away at college. The stress of having to move really crept up on me. As much as I completely understood why and was comforted of having a place to go, I felt my Thursday crumble and my ability to focus at work disappear. I ended up leaving work early to get ourselves organized.
Thursday wasn't all bad. We got confirmation of our rental being approved and set up the delivery of our rental furniture for next week. Sadly the townhouse we'll be moving into won't allow cats at all. It was a challenging decision to make, but dragging out our placement any more. It appears that rental properties that meet the relationship standards of our insurance company in our area are hard to come by. We're happy about the location. It's on Tom's route to work and not far from a direct route for me to get to work easily either.
The weekend involved a lot of relaxing. Catching up with our friends hosting for the weekend and a few errands on Saturday and then... where else do you go when you need to rebuild a house? The Home and Remodeling Show. We spent over four hours looking at kitchen ideas, cabinet colors, flooring, being tempted by steamers, window washing tools and painters a tape dispenser. We found most of those items online, for future purchases, cheaper and also learned that every time we thing about a purchase we ask for the veteran's discount.
Monday a snow and ice storm moved in, which just makes me think about all the exposed parts of the house. Not that there is anything else we want to recover, we think, but you just never know. Luckily I didn't have to work, but that didn't keep me off the streets. I picked up some soup and salad from the Fresh Thyme and had a lovely lunch with a dear friend.
I feel ready to tackle the new week. Lots of stuff to do at work to get back on track of where I should be. The end of the month is looming, so data entry needs to be tackled. We've got appointments to make with contractors and move on to the next phase. Moving into the rental and planning the rebuild.
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