Saturday afternoon

Quiet. Bob took Molly and Maggie out to eat. Liam is sleeping and Lorelei is supposed to be. I'm not sure if she is or not.
I've been thinking about moving and how much work it would be to pack up this house. We've been here for 7 years! And we have 4 kids who have a lot of stuff. If we were to buy and fix up that house, we'd have to put some things in storage in the basement for a while because we wouldn't have the same amount of room as we do now. Square footage wise it'd be about the same, but more of that is hallway.
Right now we have 12 rooms in use (including the kitchen, not including bathrooms). In that house there are 8 rooms in the main living space. We'd loose (until the basement is finished) our TV room, family room (there is one, but it's a lot smaller), music room and two office spaces. That's a lot of stuff to store.
Most of the toys would be put into the bedrooms, but the furniture in those rooms would have to go downstairs and I'm wondering if we'd just lose our TV for a while. We have computers that we can watch stuff on. Bob and I do that a lot anyway. The kids would adjust - not that they watch or that I want them to watch that much TV anyway. We can also remote desktop into computers that are kept in the basement from laptops. But we'd still have to have at least one computer desk station. I'm thinking it would be mind in the dining room and maybe Bob's little cart in our bedroom. The piano would go in the living room, but we'd probably have to buy different speakers for our cd/mp3 player and I don't think we'd have room for the table that's in there. Which really stinks because the guys use that to play games on.
When the basement is finished in the other house, we'd have way more room than we do here. The guys could have a dedicated game room, we'd have our tv room and office (a much bigger one) and family room back.
Another thing that I'm not sure about is practical storage. While the other house has a lot more closets, the majority of them are smaller. And we have SO many shelves in our basement right now. Again, when the basement in the other house is finished, it won't be an issue, since we'd do it the same way (with built in shelves) but in the meantime, I'm thinking most of the CD's DVDs and books would stay packed up. Or at least in boxes. We'd have to store or get rid of some toys as well, because even with more of them in the bedrooms, we still have way too many for them all to be out. I guess I'd just rotate them, like I've been thinking about doing for a while. I doubt I'd have room to keep the girls' stored clothes upstairs either. But, that's ok - I never really liked them in the bedroom closets anyway.
Lorelei is not asleep and is now crying. I guess at this point I should keep her up and just put her to bed early tonight - which is fine because Bob's going to be gone this evening anyway.
ttfn!