Well, our container finally arrived!!! What an exciting day! The kids were at school while Billy and I (mostly me) directed the movers as to what goes where!!! We brought soooo much stuff! Too much stuff! Some of which was NOT even supposed to come! As we unpacked we found things that were supposed to be donated, thrown out and even canned goods that was to go to God's Food Pantry!!!
Our garage has a large storage room so boxes that I didn't need in the immediate future were to go in there until I got around to unpacking them. Unfortunately, if I was occupied with one mover, another would just put any box in there. This meant that in the days to follow I was climbing over, rummaging though and moving around heaps of boxes searching for bedding and various kitchen items. It actually felt very much like one of those games where you slide the tiles around to form a picture, only in 3D.
MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) came in the afternoon to inspect several items that had been flagged for concerns of contaminating New Zealand. We had cleaned things pretty well, however, my two western saddles that weren't supposed to ship to NZ had not been cleaned properly since they were not intended to come. The MAF agent was wonderful and all of our belongings passed with flying colors. YAY!
Somehow I managed to get the beds assembled with linens on them by bedtime at which point I fell into ours and happily died! In the days that followed, I've arranged, unpacked, rearranged, organized, hung pictures, reorganized... The kids are on their 2 week break between terms and this isn't exactly what they want to be doing. Finally, the kids had had enough of my working in the house so Nani made me pinky swear that I'd take them on a bike ride. So yesterday... that's just what we did!
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