We were gone for 7 weeks so while it was nice to return home, it was also pretty stressful with all the stuff that had to be put away and cleaned up. Of course I couldn’t help but think that since we had survived for 7 weeks without most of the contents of our house that maybe we don’t really need those things. The same thing happened to me after our month in Arizona during my last maternity leave. Life is easier without so much stuff. So, I got distracted from my job of putting away stuff and started pulling stuff to donate. Without barely trying I was able to fill 3 garbage bags full of my clothes to donate. While I was busy cleaning, the boys were busying messing the place up.  We got visits today from my mom, Andy’s parents and Andy’s brother and fiancee. We had them somewhat stagger their visits so we always had someone here to distract the boys so Andy and I could get stuff done. I am still not done putting everything away, although I probably would have finished if I had not gotten the urge to purge.