Overloaded

Today is a pretty emotional day for me. There are so many good things going on in our life together right now, but they come at a price.

My day started out with Elijah waking up at 6am, not wanting to feed, just wanting to be up. It's been his thing lately, to get up anywhere between 5:30 and 7am, be up for an hour or so, feed, and then go back to bed for another hour or two. Around here, we don't have a solid schedule in terms of times, we just do the same general thing with a leeway of about 2 hours.

So I got Eli up, opened up my computer, and signed in to my email to respond to the 9 emails from Kijiji buyers that I had had over the course of Sunday. We're selling a bunch of stuff on Kijiji (or what feels like a bunch of stuff to me.)

Why are we selling stuff on Kijiji?

Because we're moving.

I know! Completely out of left field, right? If I haven't told you yet, it's because it's too new to me still to have the energy to call people and have long exhaustive conversations about it, hence the blog post.

So we've decided to move. Right now we're working on emptying our house of the stuff we don't plan on taking with us, which is a lot because at the moment we're in a house of 2200 sq. ft. total (including basement levels) and we'll be moving to an apartment of about 800-900 sq.ft., which means 1300 sq. ft. of downsizing. We'll have 1 living room instead of 3, 2 bedrooms instead of 3, and a desk rather than two home office stations. When I put it like that it sounds kind of sad, but it actually feels good to pare down and get rid of stuff we barely use, and keep what we want.

The real sad part is that we'll have one dog instead of one dog and one cat.

Yes, we're giving Merry away (cue tears and sad music.)

This was a hard decision to make, and my heart feels very heavy right now. At first we talked about moving into an apartment so small that we would have no choice but to give her away. Now we're moving into a bigger apartment (well, that's our plan anyway) but we've decided to keep with giving Merry away. There are a number of reasons, but the big ones are:

1) I don't feel it would be fair to ALL of us to be in a small apartment with 2 adults, a baby, a dog and a cat. It'd just be too crammed.

2) Where on earth would be put a litter box in such a small apartment?

It's hard though, because I love my cat oh so much.

This morning, to ease the parting blow, I called a pet store to see if they were open before 9 so I could go and get her some toys to go with her to her new home. They weren't open yet, but the nice man said to come by anyway because he was already there, so I hopped in the car and bought her some toy balls and a kitty kong that she loves playing with.

Today is just plain sad! I listed the ad for her on Thursday, figuring it'd take a while to find a home for her given how many other adult cats were listed on Kijiji, but we had a response by Saturday and I feel shocked with how quick everything has been! Merry will be gone today or tomorrow, our couch and chair from the living room is gone, and our furniture from the basement is gone too (the beige stuff.) There's nowhere to sit in the living room or Matt's office, and the rec room is already looking sparse, as the office chair is gone from that desk. Soon the desk will be gone too, and we have people coming by today or tomorrow for the treadmill, patio furniture, white glider chair, and an old bike.

Weird weird weird weird!!

We have someone downstairs at this very moment tearing down wallpaper in our ugly bathroom, and someone coming by later to tear out the toilet and vanity. Work on that bathroom will continue to move forwards over the course if the next couple weeks, and we have someone coming by this week to start work on replacing our living room floors with laminate. We have a busy few weeks ahead of us, but if we're diligent we just might have our house listed in 2-3 weeks! What can I say? We're people of action. When we want to be!

Life feels a little confusing right now, and my mind feels a little overloaded by all of our recent decisions. I have more to post about - general stuff going on in our lives, but I just don't have the energy at this moment to type it all out! Hopefully I'll have another blog post up by the end of the week, so keep checking in for a more normal, day-to-day post!