Chaos is now my life

I now have complete Chaos in my life. My household effects from Athens have arrived. All 235 boxes, 4 tons of it. It was almost 8,000 lbs. Not counting our Jeep which also arrived the same day.

We had SO many boxes that I had the movers stage everything in our two car garage. As you can tell by the photos, it is now full of boxes wall to wall, except for a small path to the door. Our front porch had to take on the burden of the empty boxes and trash, since we couldn't store it in the garage. All the furniture and about 30 boxes of kitchen, dishes, and glassware had to go inside, due to lack of space.

If it hadn't been for our friends Julio and Kim, the front porch would have about 5 boxes only. Once we had rearranged the furniture, we were able to just start unpacking stuff. They helped us move along so well, I wish they didn't have to leave! I was so used to an empty house, I felt claustrophobic with all my furniture.

Kim brought me the cutest baby outfits! Now I'm starting to get excited again. It will be like playing with dolls all over again!

Back to the unpacking; it's just so overwhelming. I could easily keep busy for a year unpacking and organizing. It's not exactly something I can delegate someone to do either, because I'm not sure where everything is going yet! I want to get rid of a lot of stuff. If I haven't used it, I don't want it.

Adal has been a real trooper. He's looking pretty good in his wife-beater T-shirt, huh? He's just as overwhelmed, but has kept most of his good humor throughout this. Except he's tired of hearing me say he has too much crap in the kitchen. Even though he DOES : )

AND did I mention I have visitors coming into town in a week??? Our short-term goal is to get the house decent enough where nobody is tripping over boxes and Chinese statues. Including me...