After almost a year on the market (listed in pre-pre-preparation for this baby who is now due in under 4 months -- cutting that a little bit close!), our house is under contract. :) Our close date is scheduled for Friday February 12, so we're down to a week and a day before it's time to move...
I made a small attempt at packing one afternoon this week but realized that packing with Harrison roaming around is a bit counter-productive. I was boxing up the tiny baby clothes from his closet and spent as much time taking Harrison's contributions to the box out as he spent taking the clothes out. It went something like this...
- Mama puts a stack of nicely folded baby clothes in the box.
- Harrison puts whatever he happens to have in his hand in the box (a toy helicopter, a puzzle piece, a shoe, and his toothbrush are the examples that come to mind).
- Mama removes whatever Harrison just put in the box.
- Harrison removes half of Mama's stack of nicely folded baby clothes from the box.
- And the dance continues...
This weekend Harrison will be dumped (we use that term lovingly) on his in-town set of grandparents so that his parents can achieve something with respect to packing. Next weekend his out-of-town grandparents will come in to keep Harrison occupied while his parents close on the house (hopefully!), finish packing, and oversee the movers. The weekend after that, Harrison will do all the un-packing he likes -- it should take about 2 hours for him to get everything out of the boxes. We might never find any of it again, but at least it will be out of the boxes! What a good little helper.
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