Moving Day!!!

Phase 1 is complete and the day has finally arrived to move into our fixer upper. Go figure, it is rainy and cold on this spring day in Mokena, IL. Oh well, the show must go on. Isn’t there a saying that rain is suppose to be good luck on an event day or is that just for weddings?!? Who knows – lol! We are not pushing this day off any further, I have some very excited children who are dying to get back to house living.

Packing was quick with the townhouse since half of our items have been in storage for the last 7 months plus we gradually moved some stuff over by hand all week. It was nice to go through my clothes again and get rid of some stuff but I’m thinking I should get rid of more. My daily attire has definitely changed over the past couple of years and I love it!

We used an old connection of my Dad’s for the move. It was the same crew who moved us out of our old house and did an awesome job. The mover showed up a 7 am and whipped through our 2500 sqft townhouse in 2 hours and had a truck filled. Those guys were amazing!! It would have taken us days to do that. Now, onto The Ranch, as Jason has nicknamed our fixer upper.

Days leading up to our move, my Dad was very concerned with a handful of things. The biggest one was the length of our driveway and some trees that are near the entrance. He was nervous about the massive moving truck getting down our driveway – I wasn’t. I usually have a laidback positive approach and tend to think it will all work out in the end. I’m not the stress nut in the family. Guess what… the big ass truck got down our driveway like a champ. I had faith in the driver.

The rain continued to come down and these guys pushed through it like champs. Working in the rain sucks and now the fun begins!

The movers had me walk them through the house and give them a tour and place a name/label on each room. Then they had me stand in the entrance and directed them where to place all of our furniture and the never ending amount of boxes of crap we had to their final destination. After directing over a 150 boxes throughout the house and a ton of furniture, I can finally say, “ Jason you won. I have a shopping problem and we have too much crap.” I don’t even know what is in half of these boxes! It looks like a yard sale is going happen after this quarantine is done to get rid of a lot of unnecessary stuff.

After an additional 5 hours of unloading two trucks and putting furniture together, we are moved in. Well, kind of… this is where COVID-19 comes back into play and messes things up – again.

As soon as the last box was placed, Jason and I decided to take the kids and Frank to our lake house for a couple of days to let everything settle and take a break from the craziness. Move-in day was kind of hectic and their was a lot of people in and out of the house touching everything we own. Why not leave the house a hot mess and head out of town for a break – just in case. The lake was needed and great getaway!

Now comes the fun part. Unpacking all of these boxes and making our fixer upper our new house.

Here is the next question, I will still be blogging about Phase 2 of our project but do you want any pictures or videos of room by room once I get things unpacked? Or are you sick of this – hahahaha.

Love ya, Lisa