Everything in our house is in boxes. And the boxes are piled in every room. All that is left to do is wait until tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be busy. Pick up the truck at 8. Close on our house at 9. Close on the new house at 11. Go back to the old house and load the truck. Drive over to the new house and unload the truck. Then we start the whole fun game of unpacking and figuring out where to put everything.

Good thing I’m on spring break this week.

We started packing up the basement and are about 2/3 of the way done with that. Tonight I started on our books. I packed up all the books in the dining room and living room which is 15 boxes total. But we still haven’t packed the books in our room, Lexi’s room or Kevin’s office.

I’m going to try and finish packing the books tomorrow or Tuesday. Then I’ll start on the pictures and finishing the basement. After that it gets a little harder because we have to start making the decisions of “will we need this in the next month?”

Does anyone enjoy packing? I don’t mind packing things that are all the same - books, dishes, towels, clothes - it’s when I have to start figuring out how to pack all the odds and ends that don’t really fit in a box and I’m not sure what room they are going to go in at the new house, that’s when I stand around and just sort of stare at the room. Oh well. At least I don’t mind unpacking. I actually like doing that.

We are moving to West St. Paul on April 2. We close on our house and the new house that day and have 24 hours to be out of our current house. Last night we started packing up the basement and I’ll probably start on the bookshelves today, but we need to get more boxes before we can really do anything.

If you want more details of the house, you’ll have to e-mail me. And if you have an overwhelming desire to haul furniture and boxes let us know.

We had another house showing tonight and when we got home there was a message on our answering machine from our realtor. The couple really liked the house and they want to see it again but bring friends with to look. Now I’m getting excited, maybe the house will sell sooner than I thought…

So, who wants to help us move?

Today we have someone coming to look at our house, tomorrow another someone is coming to look at our house and on Sunday we are having an open house. It’s officially official, our house is for sale.

We are in the process of selling our house. I’m pretty excited to be getting a new house, we’ve been looking at a few and found one we really like but we have to get our house ready to put on the market before we can make any offers. And getting a house ready to sell is a total pain. We’ve cleared out several loads to Goodwill, packed up all the clutter (clutter defined as pictures of us, Lexi, knick-knacks, half of Lexi’s toys, photo albums and pretty much anything else that makes the house feel lived in) We’ve been cleaning everything - scrubbing woodwork and floors, organizing cupboards, vacuuming cobwebs out of the basement, washing windows, dusting - and realizing that the house was a lot dirty than we thought it was.

We’ve also been making some minor and major improvements to the house. Minor ones include replacing the ceiling fan in the kitchen, the light in the dining room, and buying a new rug for the front hall. Major improvements include replacing the roof.

So if you know of anyone who wants to buy a house in St. Paul, send them our way.