Moving

[artana]

We are in the process of moving. I hired an organizer to help us out, thinking that I am unable to organize myself and I really don't want to be moving stuff that I do not care about or need. I moved into this house three years ago and never fully unpacked because this house was really too small for what we needed. With the organizer, I have been opening these boxes of things. Sometimes, I find myself delighted at what's inside, but other times I nearly cry and find myself mourning. This is especially true as I open a box that has some kid's toys in them, or old paintings that used to hang in their rooms. I look at some of these things and realize that my now-older children never had a chance to really experience these items that they loved as babies. In the last move, I feel like I failed to give them the items they might have found comforting and maybe made the move worse than it had to be.

I really hope that I manage better and more with this move. I want to make sure that nothing disappears into a back corner that matters to the children. I can live without my books on shelves for a few months, but they need their toy room with the toys that they love to feel that they are in their home.