Well, I made it home to my kids and husband. The year of separation is over and we made it out the other side! Yay! I'm thrilled. My kids are thrilled. Everyone is thrilled. However, 4 days after getting here I had a meltdown and ended up crying like a baby. I did not expect to have so much to do! There was a man and 3 small children in this house for over a year and it shows! My husband did a great job with our kids and I know he was very busy... and now I'm going to be VERY busy. I feel like our house is filthy. There is dirt in every crevice... around the floorboards, the white cabinets, around the shower... everywhere I look I see another project. The furnace is making funny noises, the car was making funny noises (I say was because we took care of that by trading it in for a new mini van. yay!!), the gutters need to be cleaned, and my yard looks like that of a hillbilly who doesn't own a single gardening tool. I haven't unpacked anything yet because in order to do that, I need to clean out the closet. My shipment of stuff hasn't arrived from California yet so that will bring MORE unpacking and on top of all that, we are adding an 8 week old puppy into the mix in a few weeks. Plus I need to paint several rooms of the house because I either hate the color or the walls still have spackle spots on them from when we moved in.
I'm going to have to take it one day at a time. It's not all going to get done over night or even in a week or month and I have accepted that. It will probably be a few months before this place starts looking like home again. Right now I am just looking forward to the new bed that will be delivered tomorrow. Maybe after I get a few nights of sleep where I'm not tossing and turning all night and waking up with horrible back pain I'll have a little more energy to get cracking on all of this.
At least everyone is happy and healthy and that is what's most important. The rest is just details. Just don't expect any summer parties at our house this year. No one is coming to this house with it looking like this! :)
