Sunday December 6, 2015 to Saturday December 12, 2015

Are we any further with the unpacking? I think so, although it seems as if I unpack and get one area organized, only to have to move stuff into that area to unpack more stuff.

Just to add to the chaos, we have decided to renovate the kitchen. We have unpacked our kitchen stuff (temporarily), as we know the renovation will not be happening until the New Year. One area of the tiny condo is organized. The adjacent dining area is not, we can get to the table and have our meals at the table.

The bathroom is the only area which I can say is unpacked and nothing else has to go in that room.

The living room is semi-organized, we can get to the sofa and watch TV. Ralf had wanted me to get rid of my little school desk as he thought there would be no room to put it. I love my little school desk, so I cleared an area in the living room and now I have an office! Temporary, but an office!

Amidst all the chaos, I have been working for Chris, I usually get the work done in the morning and then unpack more stuff in the afternoon. When Ralf gets up, he then goes to Sally Ann or Habitat for Humanity with stuff – team work.

We bought a car! On Saturday, after checking out the Nissan, we visited a few other car dealerships. They are all in the same area in Barrie. We have to buy a manual transmission car (I have never driven an automatic). Unfortunately, they are few and far between. However, Mazda had a few on the lot and arranged for us to test drive them on Monday. We met Steve, a really nice car sales man, honestly he was really nice.

Steve showed us a couple of cars, a Toyota that had big miles, but only a couple of years old and then a Mazda 2, low miles and 4 years old. We took the Mazda for a test drive and decided it was perfect for us.

Then we had to arrange insurance and pick-up dates. On Wednesday we became the proud owners of Maisie Mazda, a flighty little red number and a joy to drive.  We were going to call her Millie, but wasn\’t sure if my niece would object.

On Saturday we were able to organize the spare room a little!! We now have the things that should get stored in the spare room in the spare room and other boxes moved to their new homes.

Surprisingly we need to buy some furniture to be able to organize the stuff that we are keeping. Organizers for the walk-in closet and a buffet for the dining room. We realize that even with the renovated kitchen we will need to store some of our kitchen things in the dining area – glasses etc and items that are not used that often but we still want to keep.

I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.