box inventory

Hey ERIC. And JARED. Did the boxes ever arrive with the gifts for the kids? You still haven't said. Everything else has been accounted for.

I'm working today and tomorrow, and Adam is at home doing his chores ... which include listing a whole ton of his school books online to sell off, and finishing his law school applications. If we don't have the books gone in the next month or 2, we're going to haul them to a used bookstore and drop them off. Hopefully get some money, but if not, oh well. We just need to get them OUT. I started working on cleaning out closets yesterday, and packing away non-maternity clothes for the next 6 months. Emily will probably end up with some of them if they fit her.

I'm amazed at how much stuff has accumulated as we've combined our belongings and gotten more (like our kitchen - we started with nothing there) ... and I'm amazed at how much stuff is required for a little baby. I started looking at registry items for the baby, and it's very overwhelming just to think about the STUFF. Just the bottles: multiple bottles and nipples and the screw cap thingies, and scrubbers and sanitizer stuff because we don't have a dishwasher, and formula and storage containers for extra milk (as well as the scary looking pumps), and bibs and spit cloths, and it just keeps going ... and this is just to feed Summer for part of the day while I'm at work. What the heck. We need a bigger apartment.