Since we’re moving on my birthday (that’s on the 29th if you want to come help or send your buff honey to come help) we went out tonight to celebrate. We left the kids with my mom and went to an early movie and dinner.  I’ve been wanting to see Harry Potter since months before it came out. I was planning to see it the week after it opened.  Then Steve got an ear infection and couldn’t hear, then the kids were sick or I was sick or we were out of town.  Anyway- so I decided that I wanted to see it for my birthday. So earlier this week I told Steve, ‘I’ve decided what I want to do for my birthday’.  Steve told me that he’d just figured out what he wanted to do for my birthday. Luckily they were the same exact thing. (Phew!)

Harry Potter 5 is my favorite book.  I enjoy the DA and the rebelliousness of Fred and George.  I was really worried that I wouldn’t love the movie.  But I’ve not read the book in several years- which I think helped me enjoy the movie more.  I really liked it.  I would have liked to have seen more of Fred and George and Harry looked different (but certainly not in a bad way) with the crew cut. Umbrige was simply evil. The actress who played her did a fabulous job. Overall it was great.

We enjoyed some Red Lobster for dinner (yummy coconut shrimp!) and picked up the kids early enough that Ashley got to ’stay’ and have a sleepover.  We also picked up an entire carload of boxes. The handy thing about moving several times and for the same several times as someone else is that you get to reuse the same boxes over and over.  We collected lots of boxes for our first move- too many actually and left the leftovers with my mom. She used them to move up here.  Then she saved the good ones in her garage for us to use for this move.  If we have enough storage space (which we most likely will since we’ll have a crawl space and a garage and two unfinished rooms) we’ll save the best ones to use when we move in a year.

But all those boxes means the packing starts tomorrow.  Exactly one week from the move in date.  Well- I’ve already packed four boxes- but tomorrow Steve and I are going to knock out a ton more then that.  I’m trying a different method of labeling this time. You number each box and then put which room it goes into. Then you keep a master list of the numbers.  On the masterlist you can put a lot more information on what’s in the boxes. Then when you need to find something you can hopefully find it easier. Also when you unpack you start with the highest numbered boxes first.  Which were the last packed. I’m hoping this will be helpful.

Of course in a couple of weeks we get to move the storage unit.  Wahoo! (Can you feel the sarcasm?)

**So what do you like to do for your birthdays?  What are some packing and moving tips you’ve picked up?  How do you speed up the unpacking process?**

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