Sunday, January 12, 2014

This House is Not [Yet] a Home

On Friday we left our 3 bedroom home in the Israel Valley for a slightly smaller apartment in Haifa. When I booked the movers, I estimated 20-30 boxes and a few large pieces of furniture... Boy, was I wrong! The movers were booked for 9:00 am and I was awake until 5:26 am packing, over 40 boxes and many bags... I managed two hours of sleep before the movers came and still wasn't fully packed! We had to go back on Saturday to load up the rest of our stuff and it's a good thing we took both cars.

Despite hours of unpacking, our new house is not yet a home. It's still filled with boxes that have yet to be opened and unpacked. We have a lot less storage space in this new place and that needs to be taken into consideration. We still have a few trips to IKEA ahead of us. 

Hubby hates moving. He claims it's because his family moved around a lot when he was a kid. I like the idea of moving. It's a chance to make some changes, getting rid of old stuff and making room for the new. It's a clean slate and place to make new memories. I've moved around quite a bit these past few years, but this move has definitely been the hardest. Not only because of the amount of stuff we have to pack and unpack, but also because I want it to go by smoothly and quickly because I see how stressed hubby is by the piles of boxes in every room. And if that isn't enough, then there's all those little things that you have to deal with when you move into a new place... We discovered a neighbor's laundry machine leaking into our kitchen and the boiler's timer isn't working properly and we need new light bulbs for most of the rooms and the air conditioner isn't working and our washing machine doesn't fit through the bathroom door... and the list goes on! But we're tackling these issues one by one and hopefully, this house will become a home soon enough.

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