Not that long ago, Krista, from Organize in Style, asked me if I would write a guest post on her site about my family’s move from Texas to Utah. I jumped at the chance. I thought, hey, I’ve moved a lot. I know stuff. I can share my wisdom and insight. And then, as I sat at my computer, it occurred to me that even after several cross-country moves and lots of smaller moves sprinkled in between, there are still things that I wish I’d done differently. For the most part, our move went off without a hitch. Except, of course, for my missing pink iPod that my husband had inscribed with a little love note for me a few years ago. I’m still sad about that loss. But all in all, it was a good move. Although I am very glad it’s over.

We have remaining about a million book boxes to unpack (take note of Krista’s post on organizing collections of books), but we’re putting that off for a little while. There are still things that we want to get done in the house, like replacing carpet with hardwoods and painting, which is all on the schedule for this spring. But we are now mostly settled in, and it feels like home. At night, after reading Pea her bedtime stories and right before I turn off her bedside lamp, she still takes one last look out of her window and says to me, “mama, it is boo-tee-ful here. It is a boo-tee-ful view.”

Ahh… home, sweet home.

Anyway, check out Krista’s site because, from one organized woman to another, she has wonderfully chic ideas on how to help you make life more stylishly organized. I, for one, like the sound of that!