No really, the couch didn't fit!

My mom "officially" moved in over the weekend. She has been staying with us since June, but we finally got all her bedroom furniture, etc. from her house on Saturday. She seems to be a lot happier now and feels more at home. Her living situation wasn't all that great. She sold her house to be able to help out my aunt and uncle who moved in with her. They bought a house together that would accomodate my aunts wheelchair needs, but the negativity was too much for my mom and she moved in with us. So, this weekend was filled with lifting, hauling, arranging, re-arranging, etc.

Luckily my house is set up well for this sort of thing. Our master is on the bottom floor and we have three rooms upstairs. So, she has the upstairs to herself. We brought over her loveseat and made a second bedroom a sitting room for her. After taking the door off, removing the feet of the couch, the couch still didn't want to fit through the door frame. So, after much manipulation, the guys finally got it through and I went to buy wood puddy the following day to fix the damage.

My sister and mom were kind enough to help me hang some stuff on my walls to help make me feel like I wasn't losing half my house! Don't get me wrong. I really like having her in the house and Matt seems to be fine with it as well. It was actually his idea to give her a sitting room so she can get away from us to do her reading. How nice! However, it made me have to figure out where to put all the shit that had been stored in those rooms.

My mom and I then arranged the garage yesterday, took a bunch of stuff to the dump and even went to Home Depot to purchase Matt a shed for the backyard as a birthday surprise. This will eliminate a lot more crap from our garage. I have been feeling like my house is so cluttered lately. I don't understand how we accumulate so much crap so quickly, and we don't even have kids to blame it on.

Oh yeah, and I bought a new color of paint for my master bathroom. I am hoping that can be next Sunday's project as I really want to start personalizing my house. It has only been 2.5 years, you think I would have done something by now!