Chaos

We are leaving for spring break on Friday, and since I am working tonight, Wed., and have dance and Achievement days on Thursday, I figured I had better start packing yesterday. We are hoping for some warm weather, and I thought it might be nice to pack shorts.

I started with Payden and was innocently decieved into thinking I could finish everyone quickly because of how easy packing Payden was. She had tons of shorts and t shirts, and I had her done in 10 minutes.

Well, Michaela is growing like a weed and had only two pairs of shorts (that were really kind of tight) to her name. Payden has a bunch, because that is where all of Michaela's went.

So off to Ross ( I love Ross) to purchase her some shorts.

Then I move on to the little ones, and can't find the things that I put away from last summer that I thought would still fit this summer. Jason came home, and he got all the bins down from the garage. I did find lots of things, but not those that I had saved from last year.

My house was full of piles of clothes; ones I didn't want anymore, ones that Corrine can wear now, ones that Ava can wear now, and ones that were in between that I wanted to make sure we could find NEXT year.

Didn't I start out packing?

I still can't find the things I set aside last year, and am getting tired and frustrated with all the endless piles of clothes.

Which also now have to be washed, because even though they went into storage clean, somehow they just don't smell clean when you take them out.

After I get tired and decide to finish tomorrow, I remember where those clothes are. You know, the ones I set aside, the ones I KNOW I told Jason to put somewhere up front in the garage, the ones Jason has been looking for the last 45 minutes?

Yeah. They are in a bin in Corrine's room, right in plain sight. The problem was, that bin has been sitting there since summer last year, and has become such a fixture in her room that I ceased to see it anymore, so it wasn't really in plain sight.

But it was.

Sorry hun.

What started out as what I thought was going to be a relatively simple process has taken me a day and a half to accomplish and made a mess out of my house, and also caused a lot of frustration.

Anyway, I am glad I started packing on Monday, because if I had left it until Thursday I would have lost my mind.


Or three of my kids would have either gone naked or worn their winter stuff. I would let them choose.

So now, all the kids are packed, the in between clothes are in a bin we probably won't find next year, and I can continue packing.

Geesh.

And also , my post below is really fun. Ignore the part where I said I would write 6 things but there are really only 5. It is still fun.