The Official End of Summer

This day is the official last day of summer as tomorrow, my youngest starts her first day of high school.  I can't believe how fast the summer has gone by, tho to others, the summer may have dragged on.  I'm not sure why it went by so fast for me, maybe because three weeks out of the summer I was in Korea and the rest of the summer, my other two kids were just as busy traveling.

Yesterday was spent cleaning and rearranging the house.  We cleaned out the cupboards in the office because believe it or not, we still had boxes packed inside from when we moved into this house three years ago.  I knew what was in the boxes, I just never went thru them and sorted them out.  Now the cupboards are organized and stuff that wasn't needed was actually thrown out or put into the give away pile.

Then it was onto changing the kids' rooms, as in completely switching rooms.  Since my youngest will be the only one living here out of the three kids, she now gets the biggest room.  I felt like we were moving all over again since cleaning out Taylor's room in order to move Kora into it was exactly like moving out and into a house again.  It was nice being able to thoroughly clean out the rooms, but boy was that a lot of work!  Thank  goodness I had decided to move the two rooms while Taylor was still home so he could do all the heavy lifting with hubby.  I did the cleaning out while everyone had to move their things in and arrange how they wanted their 'new' rooms to be.

The transition went smoothly as we had plenty of room to move furniture to the theater room to Erika's room to the designated final rooms.  Thursday, we move Taylor to Lincoln into his fraternity so once again, we will feel like we are moving!  Not sure exactly what all will be needed for his room since he's not as organized as Erika was when she moved to college.  We will just wing it and buy things in Lincoln that will be needed tho we do have the majority of furniture already.

My house is going to feel like a new house after Thursday.  We will now have three bedrooms available to have guests stay, how weird is that!  I will need to buy some more sheets for Taylor's bed to have ready for guests.  I get excited about shopping for new bedding, heck shopping for anything new is exciting!

I think I'm ready for this new year of change.  Two kids in college, one a freshman and one a senior and youngest one in high school.  Ready or not, it's upon us!