Aug. 11, 2007 - Annual challenge and stuff, stuff, stuff
Monday is our first day of school. Our eighth year of learning at home. Each year brings its own challenges. Last fall, I was two months pregnant with son #4 and my husband had just left for active military duty for a year. He will be returning in a few weeks {sigh of relief}. This year, I'll have a 7th grader, a 3rd grader, a preschooler, and a nursing baby who will likely be mobile by Christmas. Add to that the fact that we are putting our house up for sale as soon as Papa Bear gets home, relocating an hour away, and Papa Bear will be starting a new career. AAAHH!
Being the procrastinator that I am, I still haven't ordered all of our school stuff and there are way too many things to be done around the house before I would even consider letting a realtor in. At night I lay in bed, organizing the house in my head. It's amazing that I've spent so much time doing that and yet the house still looks much the same as before. It's also amazing how much stuff you accumulate with four kids, seven years of homeschooling, and 15 years of marriage. I have seriously thought about renting a storage unit and putting about half of our stuff in it. Maybe I would forget about it and decide we don't really need it after all. That saying about not owning your stuff, but that your stuff owns you, is so true. Time for yet another yard sale, I suppose. Maybe we can earn enough money to pay for the storage shed.
