The toys you see are those that made the initial cut. The quantity has since changed as more items have been donated. And even more will make their way out of the house after a new wall system arrives in a few weeks. Really excited to share a playroom update later this month!

I spent Saturday morning sorting through and organizing the toys…

While sorting, I ran wash/dry loads of couch slipcovers…

Those are lego’s tucked back on the far right. We are so re-organizing those!…

Watch your head, knees and elbows…

By Saturday night, most of the kitchen was unpacked. A lot of my kitchen is on garage shelving. Where it will live until the kitchen remodel.

Sunday I tore into part of the living room…

Set up the patio table on the screened-in porch…

In case you’ve been reading a while and wondered where the rest of the patio set landed? It’s right here on the front porch…

As I waited for my people to pull in, I tried to create a little order out of the garage chaos…

No, you can’t walk back into that far right corner yet. Yes, I get itchy and start shaking a lot little when I walk out here each day. But I know exactly what’s back there and exactly where it’s going. More on that soon!

Far left side has looked like this off and on since move-in. The packing material is never-ending. The day I don’t see a cardboard box or piece of packing material in this house is the day I open that $100 bottle of wine I’ve been hiding away for months….

Then came the moment I had been waiting for. The moment I dreamt of for weeks. The moment I dreamt about when we purchased the house and could envision the kids living here and loving it. This…

They made a b-line to the swing set. Who couldn’t predict that! Then they made their way through the house to find their rooms and beloved toys that had been packed away for months and months…

This is all the payment I’ll ever need for months and months of debating over paint, carpet colors, working with contractors, crunching numbers to make the messy jobs happen before move-in, dealing with packing and unpacking, movers, dirt, dust, pool renovations and more. This little thumbs up and happy cat is more than enough payment…

Are there still a few boxes around the house? Yes, but only in the guest room, which is my staging area for wall hangings and random decor…

And a few remaining boxes in the garage. But more importantly, the move-in process is pretty much a wrap. I can’t be happier to have this phase behind me.

Although I’ve been back home in california for a full month now, I haven’t left Arkansas behind. There’s a lot to miss about living there. That’s a post I’ve been composing for months and one I’ll share someday. Just when I think that post is complete and ready to be shared, my memory is jogged and I add something else. There was simply too much to love about living there. Too much!

Thank you, always, for reading along on this journey. Now I live in the house, get a feel for how life flows inside these four walls, and dig in to set up those organization systems. I’ve started thinking about the kitchen remodel and have a loooooong list of projects to tackle. Can’t wait to share it all!