Opening Doors?

I’ve had far less opportunity to write lately. This is partly due to the fact that my daughter recently conquered the doorknob concept, thus making child care a more interesting experience. All the items tucked safely away in closets suddenly became accessible. I made a trip to the mall yesterday and found doorknob covers: so far (fingers crossed), they are working. There have also been other impediments to any kind of mommy-time. Since we recently took down our large child gate, Violet now randomly runs downstairs and hides from me. Occasionally, she is content to read books or watch a few minutes of a television program: otherwise, chaos reigns.

Speaking of chaos, we are also beginning our preparations for the impending move. We do not yet have an assigned base for when Jerry returns from his overseas tour, so much of our packing and shipping will have to be done after he receives those orders. In the meantime, I need to purge this entire house of anything we don’t absolutely need. I’m starting with our file box, since I’m a paranoid soul and don’t want our personal documents hanging out in storage (potentially, thousands of miles away) for a year. So I suppose I need to consolidate our files into a single, small storage box, and take those with us. I’m not looking forward to the tedious process of sorting and shredding.

Even now, as I write, Violet is under the computer desk, examining the dangling cords and deciding which one to yank first. I am beyond stressed out, and fighting the temptation to put the gate back up…