Life Changing Opportunity

Our journey hasn't ended, even though I haven't posted in seven years. Our lives are about to take a DRASTIC TURN! This summer we'll be moving from the United States 🇺🇸 to Japan 🇯🇵! 

Our transition has already started. Once my husband was offered the position, we started to declutter. We, of course, can't take everything and do we really want to pay to store it? Decisions must be made! 

I'll be posting about our preparation to live Japan and eventually our adventures! Come join my family on our Japan Journey! Find our new blog here: The Loveridge Family Adventures

Moving Chaos!

DIRTY carpet, I steamed it before we moved in...

AH!!!!

We left some stuff at Jessica's place.  Went several days after dropping Gavin off at school.  Took like a week to clear out... Crazy to see it empty!

Found like half a dozen of this picture in one of the closets.  Weird...

Moving Fun!

We got the keys to our new house on May 10!!!  We moved our first big load on May 12 and started to set up the play room so that we could *hopefully* have them play while I could work on the house...

Our empty can rack.  Yay!

Found my water polo suit and a swim cap from my one season of water polo that I played.  Great memories and thinking about it makes me want to swim some again!

One of the biggest things I did before we moved in was to remove someone else's funky old contact paper.  It turned out there were a couple of layers!  It was SO stubborn!  I literally spent hours on it and had a friend  (thanks, Dori!) help me, and I still had more to do.  Finally I wrote about it on Facebook and my mother told me to use an iron on it.  It worked SO much better and was MUCH quicker, thanks mom!

Here are some pictures of our new house before furniture.  We had already moved a few things over before I thought to take pictures official "before" pictures.  

Our den.  

Downstairs bathroom.

Love the storage of what we believe to be a converted shower stall!

Kids' room. 

Hallway and linen closet between the kids' room and playroom.  

Laundry.

Kitchen.  You love our floor, don't you?!  You know you're jealous.

Our stove top with pilot lights that are on all the time (make the stove top quite warm, too) and only two working burners...

Someone LOVED plants...

Dining area.

Top of stairs.  Super cheap peel and stick laminate...

The office.  

View from our office window.  

Master bath.

More cheap stick on laminate flooring.  It was stuck on directly over existing flooring where a bit can be seen on the right of this photo...

Master bedroom.  

Chandelier in the stairway. 

Packing Fun

First boxes packed for our move!  Thanks, Dori, helping me pack!!!

Collected boxes for free from Smart & Final.  Now on to more packing...

The pile is growing!!!

Gavin helping me pack.  He filled it with only a couple of things and then this is how he taped it!

Mountain to be climbed?!

Gavin wanted to sleep IN the box, but I finally convinced him to sleep this way.

The following night he actually did fall asleep IN the box, but he was uncomfortable so I had to move him.