Packing with kids

The passed few weeks have been a learning experience, I've learned that you can pack a lot and still have your house look like you did no packing. I've also learned that packing with kids sucks! Don't get me wrong, they can be extremely helpful, but when it comes to their own stuff they like unpack as I pack so as I would get their rooms finished they would unpack things and put them on the floor and then I end up tripping over their toys. It's a wonderful time, really. So I decided on my days off I would take their friends' parents up on the offer of watching them while I pack. Which is exactly what I did yesterday, my house may still look like a mess, but I got a truck and a car full of boxes taken over to our new house. It's pretty nice to be getting these boxes out and to know that when we get to our new house we will have places for everything! I seriously can't wait to have my bedroom back, for the passed five years I've had toys or children's clothes or an actual child sharing a room with me and it will be very awesome to have a child free room(for a few days until my kids start climbing into my bed for various reasons!) Hopefully my kids start grasping the idea of packing and understand that they can unpack all they want once we move in because face it getting nine kids to help out with anything would make life a whole lot easier!