Groceries!

Today I did our first major grocery shopping trip in over five weeks.

During our last two weeks in Vermont, meals were planned around what we had on hand in an effort to use up as much food as possible. I gave away full boxes and cans of food to the food shelf and asked friends if they wanted mostly-full boxes.

We ate out for two weeks while moving out of the Vermont house and traveling by motorcycle to Arizona. When we moved into our home in Prescott, AZ we had no pots, pans, utensils, etc. We ate cereal in plastic bowls with plastic spoons, made sandwiches, or cooked frozen meals in the microwave or oven.

Wednesday our furniture and household goods arrived, and we celebrated by grilling steak and microwaving fresh potatoes and frozen corn. We ate on the back deck with real, it-needs-to-be-washed dishes and silverware and felt like the camping trip in the new house was finally at an end.

Now the house is stocked with food in the pantry, fridge and freezer. I'm planning fresh sweet corn, sauteed chicken and fresh broccoli for dinner using an actual recipe, and have meals for next week already picked out.

We still have unpacked boxes in every room, only one chair in the living room, and I haven't yet found some of the silverware. It feels like getting back into pre-baby shape after having a child:  everyone tells us it takes time and patience to get the house arranged and everything unpacked.

I'm hoping it doesn't take nine months.