Where did we get all these acquisitions?

Hi all,

I thought I would have been able to give you a thumbs up and all is rolling well by now but I am still unpacking boxes and sorting where things should go. But those are the joys of moving, from a 3400 square foot home into a 2300 one, eh? We are almost there, just about 4 boxes left to unpack and decide what gets thrown out and what stays, I am at the point where I don't care what stays I just don't want to unpack one more piece of wrapped anything! Can any of you relate?

The biggest job now is where the paintings/artwork will hang and that will take some time as a lot of those we need to live with and see what will go where. The household goods arrived just before the "blizzard of 2009" for the DC area so we were stuck inside and outside trying to get our cars unburied from 21" of snow and manuver around the roads. It did give me time to do nothing but unpack BUT had to locate the winter gear so it did make somewhat a mess trying to remember which box held the gloves and stuff, lol. My old Expedition did very well even if it isn't an AWD, she took it like a champ. Now back to my tasks of making this into our home, that is coming along nicely and I do have to say that Craig and Kevin were very helpful in placing furniture and deciding where "the stuff" should go, no no most of it did not end up at the dump! We did what we needed to do to get to Christmas and then worked our way out of boxes for the New Year and Craig's brother Rog's visit on his way back to Houston. We did visit the Recycling center a couple of times and it is quite pleasant, although Craig did say that the dropping off of the 3 foot high pile of boxes was a lot easier than loading them!

Right now we are enjoying Brian's arrival (6:50 AM today) so we will have some fun here visiting and maybe doing some sightseeing. We are settling into the cold weather and keeping ourselves warm and dry the house is 22 years old so it does have it's drafty places but we are learning those and attempting to compensate with blankets and fires going in the fireplace! I will forward some pictures soon, my camera died on me so I have pics of what it looked like with the boxes here but haven't been able to find my charger to take the finished pictures but they will follow in a couple of days.

I have been very fortunate as a dear friend of mine Mary, came by on the 22nd and 23rd of December and just unpacked while I put things away, THANK YOU MARY! It does help when you have someone that has done this about 18 times to step in and help get it done. My health continues to improve albeit I am not resting all that much I do about 9 hours per day of unpacking and then I collapse for about 9 hours or use them for "getting the things I had to leave behind". and then sleep for 6! Although my energy is not where I put it last year at this time, I am doing pretty well and I needed to slow down anyway, right? I am still scheduled to be back in the San Diego area the end of February so hopefully while I am there and recuperating from (hopefully) the last surgery I can see some of you that are in that area.

I am sending you all thanks and hugs to all of you,