So we recently the daunting task of cleaning out our storage unit. Anyone who has ever taken 2 houses and collapsed them down to 1 knows that you are going to have too much stuff! Well, that is what happened to my husband and me. We moved into his bachlor-pad. So I have spent the last month or so adding my touches. And after many weekends of going through things and getting rid of things the house finally seems liveable. So our next task was to clean out the storage unit that we just dumped things in when we moved me from my apartment just prior to the wedding.
The plan was for my in-laws to come over and help and in return I would provide food. Now, I was extremely nervous about this. I don't know why... I guess no one really likes other people going through their stuff, even if it is with the best intentions. But there was no way I could help Chris move the furnature and other big items by myself. So the family agreed to come and help. And for their help I totally love them. But I was nervous non-the-less!
I decided to make one of Chris's favorite meals, pulled pork tocos, because the meat could cook all day while we worked and then be ready for lunch. So Friday night I prepared the pork by searing it on all sides and placing it in the crock pot. Then I covered it in some souce and stuck the entire thing in the fridge. The next morning, I got up and started the meat at 5 am so it would be ready by our 1 pm lunchion.
Now let me back up.... prior to this durring the week while I was slammed with work, teaching, and school I also talked Chris into helping me deep clean our entire house. It was to be the first time the in-laws saw the house since we got married and for some crazy reason I decided it had to be perfect. So Friday night, besides searing and preparing the pork, I also stayed up late scrubing our floors!
The plan was for my in-laws to come over and help and in return I would provide food. Now, I was extremely nervous about this. I don't know why... I guess no one really likes other people going through their stuff, even if it is with the best intentions. But there was no way I could help Chris move the furnature and other big items by myself. So the family agreed to come and help. And for their help I totally love them. But I was nervous non-the-less!
I decided to make one of Chris's favorite meals, pulled pork tocos, because the meat could cook all day while we worked and then be ready for lunch. So Friday night I prepared the pork by searing it on all sides and placing it in the crock pot. Then I covered it in some souce and stuck the entire thing in the fridge. The next morning, I got up and started the meat at 5 am so it would be ready by our 1 pm lunchion.
Now let me back up.... prior to this durring the week while I was slammed with work, teaching, and school I also talked Chris into helping me deep clean our entire house. It was to be the first time the in-laws saw the house since we got married and for some crazy reason I decided it had to be perfect. So Friday night, besides searing and preparing the pork, I also stayed up late scrubing our floors!
Well the family came over and everything actually went really well. We worked all morning and sorted everything into 5 piles, things either went to charity, the trash, the lake house, our hourse, or back into the storage unit. I have to admit, at first it was a little strange having my new family members digging through all of my stuff but in the end it all was ok. It felt really good to go through everything and get rid of things Chris and I didn't want or need. He got rid of somethings from his bachelor days and I got rid of some of the things from my life before marriage. We got new rubbermade bins for things we decided to keep and just knowing those things are more organized and safer gives us a whole new peace of mind.
After working on the storage unit, pulling everything out, sorting it, and then refilling the unit, everyone returned to our house for lunch. It was really nice to sit in the backyard at the picnic table and catch up with everyone.
In the end... the day ended up being exhausting, but the good kind of exhausting. We got to spend time with our family and got to organize our past, removing some of the extra baggage that we all drag around with us. Turns out Chris and I had both held onto things in the storage unit from our past that we would never use again. What's funny is we had just filled the storage unit a month or so before we got married. I guess we just weren't ready to let some of that stuff go then. But now that we are married and we are looking out the front windshield, we have less time, and I guess less desire, to stare in the rearview mirror. It's amazing what you learn about yourself when you clean our your storage unit.
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