WOW where does the time go!!

WOW I have no idea where the last month went!! We have now lived in our new house just a couple of days shy of a month and it has been quite a transition! First of all trying to combine everything that we had in storage for a year (which I found out that I really had no clue what was in storage) and the stuff that we had accumulated over the last year living with Andy's parents has been one of the hardest thing that I have ever done. This is move 16 and seriously it has never been this hard. Usually I know what is in most of the boxes and have planned out in my head before hand where I want things to go tentatively. This time I have gotten things set and then found 2 more boxes of stuff and have had to start over. Also during the last year the children have grown (big surprise I know), but when we packed to go to Grandma's we only packed enough clothes to last 2 weeks, we where trying not to bring to much stuff to grandma's because we where only going to be there max 9 weeks! When we went to unpack the kids we found BOXES of clothes that no longer fit anyone. Lexi made out like a bandit and accumulated alot of clothes that she will fit into next year and the others girls found a handful of shirts that they could still wear. However, an hour project putting away clothes turned into 4 hours of trying on, sorting and huge mounds of clothing.
We are still trying to get everything sorted but it may be another month or 2 before I can get through everything. We did get the entire main part of the house painted, except for some of the trim. Unfortunately, that means that we still have alot of painting to do. All of the bedrooms, bathrooms, and doors still need the benefit of having more than one thin coat of paint. The girls are going through the growing pains of all being cramped in a 10 x 10 room together. They have all really wanted to bring all of their treasures out of their room boxes up to their room. However, there just isn't room for it, and that has been pretty hard on all of them. We hope to be able to finish the basement bedrooms before to long but right now, with Christmas looming on the horizon we figured that we need to calm some of the craziness before we try to add more.
The kids are adjusting to the way that we do chores again, which has been pretty hard on all of them. Things where pretty different at Grandma's house, and mom had very little control over alot of things and Grandma was really good at rescuing them from chores, or having things done the grandma way so we are really out of practice. Tonight alone it took 2 of them over 2 hours to do the dinner dishes. Its enough to make a mother pull her hair out!!!  To add mroe excitement to our life we also got a new car 2 weeks ago, we desperately needed something that got better gas mileage and was better in the snow than our 2 wheel drive Sequioa. So despite the fact that we loved it we now have a shinney new 2009 Chrysler Town and Country that has been kindof fun to have so far. All in all we are hoping to be able to have a house warming party so that everyone can see our new digs sometime in December should be fun!!