Our Stuff Arrives!

I was really peeved when our household good didn’t arrive by the end of October. I thought two months was PLENTY of time to ship things over here, but apparently I was wrong. Once the shipment arrived, it had to go through customs, and then it had to be sent up to our neck of England. When Andrew found out our things would be delivered on November 16th, I was ecstatic! I obviously just wanted to use our own things again, but I was also relieved that all of our kitchen items would be here because… Andrew had volunteered us to host Thanksgiving for 12+ people. Yikes.

We were up before 8am, just in case the movers came right away. They didn’t, but that gave us time to move our loaner furniture into the conservatory and move the loaner bed into our second bedroom. Every time I heard a noise, I was convinced it was the movers. I just couldn’t sit still! And then the big truck arrived!

I really hope they didn’t see me snap this picture… that would have been a little embarrassing. I was probably way too excited to care though! I was surprised by how quickly they unloaded everything, but our movers in Wisconsin were also much faster than I thought they would be. Soon our house was filled with boxes…

It was pretty overwhelming. After the movers left, we both just sat on the sectional for a little bit. Thankfully nothing was terribly damaged. Except for the sectional… the frame was broken in the move. We still have to file the damages so we can get reimbursed though.

Once Andrew & I took it all in, we got to work. We had gotten bedroom furniture as a wedding gift from Andrew’s parents, but we had left it boxed up for the move. So he went upstairs to tackle furniture assembly. I decided to take on the kitchen. We had an entire box labeled “Glassware” — I had no idea where it was all going to go! After some maneuvering of shelves and trial and error, I got it all to fit, more or less. And Andrew got our bedroom ready for our first good night’s sleep in the house!

Having the bedroom and kitchen taken care of helped a lot, but there was still a LOT to unpack. We managed to get the downstairs looking good by Thanksgiving, but the upstairs is still a work in progress!