This photo was *not* taken on moving day and, in fact, I have zero photos from moving day so I thought I’d balance the memories of the exhaustion whilst typing this out with a more serene photo!
We moved at the end of June and I cannot believe it’s been just over 1 month that we’ve lived in the new house. So many things happened in the month of July, and all of them were wonderful things, but honestly, I can barely remember details from those first few days of living here.
In order to provide a little help if you are embarking on a move soon, I thought I would share 3 things that I wish I did on moving day to make everything go more smoothly.
One. I wish I had brought paper, markers, and tape to the new house and labeled each room. I figured I would just stand at the door and tell the movers where certain furniture would go, but that was more difficult than I had anticipated. Our move ran longer than expected so I was scrambling to unpack a few of the essentials at 11:00pm and didn’t want to stand at the door and make a decision about where a rug would go. I ended up ripping the paper from an old appliance manual and scribbling out the kids’ names on the scraps. I taped them to the door frames with used tape that I had ripped off a box. Two. I wish I had stocked the bathrooms with tissues, trash cans, and toilet paper. The movers and my family could have saved some time instead of trying to track down some bathroom essentials if I had stocked ...