un-boxing days

I am struggling to come back to the everyday stuff today: work, sitting at a desk, making small talk, caring about my responsibilities, only getting to talk to Bob once or twice by phone. I haven't done this for a while. I'm still coming off the weeks of moving, unpacking, taking more stuff to storage at Bob's sister's house while visiting his mom over Christmas weekend, cleaning, unpacking, the legal battle with our first contractor, unpacking, building shelves in the closets, unpacking, sending out our combination change-of-address/holiday cards, unpacking, unpacking, unpacking.

I took all of last week off work and together Bob and I nearly unpacked everything and found a place for it (even that meant a place on the last pile of boxes that will go to Bob's sister's house this coming weekend). Slowly, ever-so slowly, but surely, we are making our way through it all and the apartment is feeling more and more like home to us. And although we put in long days, we did manage to sneak out of the house a few times and take advantage of the movie theaters and restaurants near the apartment, and that too hinted at what's to come once we settle back into the neighborhood.

We definitely look forward to the Saturday morning that we sit with our coffee in bed and ask one another, "so what do ya' feel like doing today?"