Packing out the kitchen

It all starts with a list.  Of course for me everything seems to start with a list.  I wake up in the morning making a list of how my day will proceed.

1. Get out of bed
2. Walk to the bathroom and pee
3. Shower
4. Dress
5. Make breakfast (try oatmeal with blueberries this morning so those blueberries won't go bad)
6. Read e-mail and check Ravelry

So I made a list of things I believe I need to make a proper kitchen.  Realize that baking, cheese making, brewing and cooking are hobbies for our family.  We would sacrifice large bedrooms for a large kitchen. In fact as far as bedrooms go as long as we can fit our beds and a dresser in them we are happy.  We spend much of our time as a family either in the living room or kitchen.  So here is the list:

• Green and blue dishes (I have several sets of dishes - this is one set that is green and blue)
• 8 tea goblets (out of 20)
•  8 mugs
• Cinnamon sugar shaker
• Butter dish
• Toaster
• Teapot
• Tea kettle
• Silverware
• Cookie Jar (come on, it's a Tardis cookie jar)
• Alfonso (my Kitchen Aid mixer)
• Zester
• Steamer basket
• 1 set of nesting stainless mixing bowls
• Colander set
• Rice cooker
• Measuring cups and measuring spoons
• Sifter
• Funnel
• French press
• Coffee container
• Nesting Rubbermaid set
• Wok
• Lunch bowl (it's a ceramic bowl with a steam vent that I carry leftovers to work in)
• Cake pans
• Dutch oven
• Sauce pan
• Grill pan
• Sautee pan
• Cutting board
• Muffin tin
• Cooling rack
• Turkey roaster
• Turkey platter
• Rolling pin
• Toast tongs (that I bought on my trip to Ohio)
• Deep dish baker
• Pizza Stone
•  Bread pan
• Cookie sheet
• Bar pan
• Pie plate

There are some miscellaneous mixing spoons, vegetable peeler, ladles, pot holders and dish rags.  The spice cabinet will be a bigger challenge.  We have yet to go through it.  That may be something we hold off on until right before our move as we use these things quite often and I'm not going to buy all the spices that my daughter might need over the next two years.  She's a working girl now and can buy her own spices.

I've noticed that we tend to hold on to things that we are comfortable with when there is something just as adequate available.  For instance bowls.  We have this odd assortment of bowls from which to eat.  We all seem to have a favorite, but they don't match.  When we move I am taking the eight bowls that match the eight plates and the eight dessert plates that we bought as a set because we thought they were pretty.  I think if we are forced to use one of the "not our favorite" bowls we will find that oatmeal and soup taste just the same from a squat wide bowl as a conical bowl.  Oddly, we don't have matching cups for those plates, so there will be some hemming and hawing over which mugs stay and which go.  And there will also be some arguing about who gets to keep a certain mug that we affectionately refer to as the "fucking bunny mug"  (pardon the language).

See?  Wouldn't you argue about this mug as well?  (By the way, it is going with me even if I have to sneak it out and hide it somewhere.)

I'm sure that there is something from my list that I am overlooking.  It will probably dawn on me about a week after I have moved to Ohio and reach for said item only to discover that it was left in Florida.  But that is the way of lists.  They never seem quite complete.