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Moving

No, we are not moving to a new house. We are just shifting rooms within the house.

This is how it was when we first moved in:
BR1: Dave and I
BR2: Matt
BR3: Junk
BR4: Computer and workroom

Then Elizabeth was born. Her crib went up in our room since our room was the largest. I also didn't want her crying and waking up Matt. After she started sleeping all night long, we did a little rearranging again:
BR1: Matt and Lizzie
BR2: Dave and I
BR3: Cleaned out and turned into my craft/sewing room
BR4: Computer/workroom/junk

Now Matt is wanting his own room. Since we are fortunate to have 4 bedrooms, he can. So I've spent the better part of today packing up my craft room so he can have his own room. I've moved all his toys, his bed, and all his other assorted stuff into my former craft room. He can now shut his door and keep Lizzie out of his stuff. Tomorrow, Dave and I will pack up the computer/work/junk room and moved Lizzie into that room. Here's the new configuration:
BR1: Craft/computer/work/hopefully not so much junk room
BR2: Still Dave and I
BR3: Matt
BR4: Lizzie

It's a challenge to rearrange things within your own home, because there is not usually space to put things while you move one room to the other. I just had to pile everything up in the living room and hope Lizzie didn't climb into things while I was moving stuff. I managed to get it all into the right rooms.

The upside to all of this is that I have touched everything in those rooms so I've gotten rid of trash and stuff that I just to go. There's not a lot of clutter. Maybe when we finish switching rooms, I'll start on the hall closets and the laundry room and the garage...

Yeah, right.

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