You wouldn’t think I, as a mother of three small children, would ever be sitting down twiddling my thumbs. But the last few days I’ve found to be incredibly long. Not in a bad way really, but there is so much anticipation in my life, I hardly know what to do with it!! December is a big month whether you’re moving, or pregnant, or single, or in school, or working, or living at home, or whatever! Its a big, busy, bustling, fabulous month, right? But obviously, we have some extra factors. Here is why I feel like a sitting duck.
- We are out of our house first thing in the new year, and since that all just happened, we don’t have our next dwelling lined up. We knew this would be the case, and are ready for the challenge. I’m certainly not complaining! I’m very excited to start packing boxes, and preparing to move. But here’s the thing. We don’t know if we’re going to be able to rent, or if we’ll end up maybe house sitting for a bit. In one of those scenarios, we’ll just move our stuff over. But in another, we will need to rearrange our entire storage container to fit our furniture. So if I start packing boxes and sending 10-15 to the city with Brady every day, and then we find out we need to also fit our furniture in there, that will make for WAY more legwork to unpack and repack and container. So I don’t want to pack up a ton of boxes when they have nowhere to go. I could stack them up and wait, and I may end up doing that, but the only places to really line them up are right by our Christmas tree (which would be ugly) or downstairs in a spare room, which I feel would be a huge hassle when its time to haul them upstairs and take them out. Am I making sense? So I know this big move is coming, but I feel like I cannot prepare for it at all.
- I’ve tried to move past the annoyance of my first point, and try to find other practical ways to occupy my time. I thought I could start wrapping gifts. But I always have kids with me! At least one, Dekker, who is old enough to know whats going on. So I can’t wrap his gifts, and I don’t want him to know what everyone is getting because he’ll tell! Therefore, gift wrapping with Dekker is sort of out. Again, I might just bite the bullet and do it anyway if I’m stuck in “sitting duck mode” for too much longer, but its not ideal.
- One task I know is coming and I would LOVE to take care of is addressing envelopes for our Christmas cards. However, I ordered 5x7s, and they’re coming with envelopes. So I have wait to wait for them to arrive before I can even start. So that one obviously has to wait.
- How many of you are thinking, “Ummm, do your Christmas baking??” I know, guys, I know. Without being too terribly dramatic, the kids have been incredibly testing the last two days, and I am quite dead on my feet. It is not the time to bring them into the kitchen with me and try to create things with them. They are SO argumentative these days and I’m just good to not bake with them. I really do enjoy baking with them, and they’re usually really great helpers! But today is sooo not the day for it.
So I’ve been feeling a bit stir crazy the last few days, not knowing quite what to do with things or what to do next. I spent the morning making a few lists, just to feel better about myself. I’ve chosen which treats I’d like to make, what things I can start boxing that we for sure won’t need this month, what we can leave behind, and all of the places I need to call to change our address. I’m not sure what else I can do while I just sit and wait for things to happen!! I’d appreciate any and all further ideas <3 Tis NOT the season to be anxious and bored, thats for sure! Bring on the jollies and joyousness!