I woke up early and couldn’t go back to sleep. When I get up before 7:00 it makes the day feel long.
Kathy started going through some of the boxes of Max’s stuff this morning. I joined in and we worked all morning. We got the car emptied and everything brought inside. We did a first pass through all the boxes. We only ended up saving about two boxes of stuff. We must have brought home 15 or more.
Found a box of my grandmother’s childhood things. I had never seen the contents of that box and didn’t know Max had it. Not sure how he got it but am grateful that he did. He was a better saver of that type of thing than I am.
We will go back through the box and determine what to keep and what to share with other family members. There are some pictures of my aunts, uncles, and cousins that they might appreciate getting.
I’m glad I didn’t get to Emporia and buy a bunch of tubs to store stuff in. I only need two and don’t have room for more.
Max put all his notes, writings, etc. in three-ring binders. I don’t have a need for 30 binders so made a post on Facebook and put it on the Cares and Shares page. Trusting someone or several someone’s will come by and pick them up for free. I would rather they go to someone that can use them to throw them in the trash.
I have a huge pile of boxes of stuff that we need to either burn or throw away. We will probably do a mixture of both. My trash can won’t hold all the pile so it may take us a couple weeks to get rid of it all. Not sure where I am going to store it all until I can rid of it. Clutter gets to me after a bit. I guess I could load it all up in my car again and take it to the dump. Hate the thought of carrying all the boxes again though. We shall see what happens.
I was going to clean today but ended up doing this job instead. It needed done and I am grateful it is done except for the disposal of the stuff we aren’t keeping. I can mange figuring out what to do with one or two boxes and not get overwhelmed with 20 of them.
I took a nap this afternoon. I had stayed up late last night and got up too early this morning. I hadn’t had a nap for a bit and it felt good to take one.
Need to get back to the housecleaning tomorrow. That job has been pending too long and I will feel better when I get the whole house detailed clean again. Now that my car is empty again I can get it cleaned out.
It has been good for my soul to stay home these last two days. I get to stay home tomorrow too. I am slowing beginning to feel like I am filling up again. Trusting by the end of tomorrow I will be overflowing.
Finally feeling like I am home all the way. Getting the car unloaded and all the boxes gone through really helped. It feels like this project is almost done. I still have the probate process to deal with but that can’t be started until 30 days after the death. It will proceed as it will and there won’t be much I can do to speed it along. It doesn’t sound too complicated but one never knows until you are in the middle of it.
Grateful the car is empty, grateful all the boxes have been gone through, and grateful for a nap today.